Do you believe in other life in the Universe?

[foszoe]

Who KNOWS? Who Cares?

 

[ATM]

Losing arguments for a living now, ATM? Please get back to your detonation thread. Oh. CM locked it. No wonder you're carrying vitriol to other places.

Still looking for a challenge, actually. Did I carry vitriol in here, or did I simply respond to yours?

 

[churchmouse]

I am going to state this one time and one time only.

Knock it off.

Nuff said.

 

[T.Lex]

Is there life elsewhere in the universe? How arrogant to believe you are its most important creation.

I don't think it arrogant; I think it quantifiable. Well, not the "important" part. Most sentient, maybe. Arguably, gravity is the most important creation. Or light. If we're going in order, the firmament - the physical stuff of the universe - is probably most important. Without that, the rest wouldn't really be possible.

 

[JollyMon]

 

[hog slayer]

It is quite astounding when one goes backwards into origins. Certainly there are arguments along the way to cell formation and molecule replication. All of that seems to take an incredible amount of time and some would argue against it (Doc). However, one also needs to factor in the data supporting our solar system being a second generation system. Cosmic dust as the result of a prior supernova (s) had to coalesce out of the expanding space fabric to create our star and planetary system.

All the while moving at a rate of 32 million miles per day.

Is there life elsewhere in the universe? How arrogant to believe you are its most important creation.

I am just that important. I know this because my daddy told me so. As far as I can see, arrogance would be me denying my father.

If you are blessed to be a father, surely your most important creation are your children.

 

[Route 45]

If you are blessed to be a father, surely your most important creation are your children.

I agree with this. I have 2 wonderful children. I would never think of drowning them. Or burning them.

 

[singlesix]

IBTL ...

 

[Alpo]

 

[T.Lex]

Yeah, pretty miraculous, eh?

 

[indiucky]

And?

That's the straw you're grasping?
I gotta step in for Indiucky.

Not the first...When pressed hard enough they either go to ancient aliens or amino acids piggybacking on crystals....Say what you will you have got to admire their Faith....

[video=youtube;TUetJ3umTWU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUetJ3umTWU[/video]

 

[indiucky]

You picked out a single one of my points claiming that was the straw I was grasping at and responded to my other points with a music video.

He did that for me jludo....Not to you...He even said, "I have go to step in for Indiucky..."

 

[Route 45]

Not the first...When pressed hard enough they either go to ancient aliens or amino acids piggybacking on crystals....Say what you will you have got to admire their Faith...

 

[Alpo]

Yeah, pretty miraculous, eh?

It certainly is. I use the term "arrogance" only in the sense of self-importance. To think about the broader aspects of the universe and the forces involved...humility and gratitude are the things that usually come to my own mind.

 

[JollyMon]

My question what constitutes intelligent life? I mean if we found a water planet that had dolphins would we consider them intelligent... we claim they are some of the most intelligent animals on our planet...

I am just hoping to find complex life forms.

 

[T.Lex]

It certainly is. I use the term "arrogance" only in the sense of self-importance. To think about the broader aspects of the universe and the forces involved...humility and gratitude are the things that usually come to my own mind.

So do you believe you are the only "you" that has ever existed? Let's even just say physically - that there has never been, and isn't, or will never be someone with exactly your physical attributes?

 

[Woobie]

My question what constitutes intelligent life? I mean if we found a water planet that had dolphins would we consider them intelligent... we claim they are some of the most intelligent animals on our planet...

I am just hoping to find complex life forms.

Have you been reading/watching Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

 

[JollyMon]

Have you been reading/watching Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

No, havent read or watched it

 

[Alpo]

So do you believe you are the only "you" that has ever existed? Let's even just say physically - that there has never been, and isn't, or will never be someone with exactly your physical attributes?

I don't think anyone has a good handle on what "conciousness" is. That being said, every thought we have is an organization of energy which has some form of radiation attached to it. Does that radiation and, therefore, that thought travel on forever throughout spacetime? And if we are 32 million miles from where we were yesterday, is our existence a unique footprint in the present or a thin ribbon throughout spaceandtime?

Interesting concepts that I doubt we'll figure out very soon.


That doesn't directly answer your question, I know. It all depends on the nature of time.

 

[Woobie]

No, havent read or watched it

Thats funny. In the story, humans are the third most intelligent life form on earth, behind mice and.....dolphins.