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I'd like to hear some input from you guys on what you think about the existence of alien life forms.
I personally see no reason why the same chemical processes that lead to life here on Earth shouldn't have lead to life on many other worlds. If you look at the scale of the Milky Way (around 100 billion Stars(suns), most of which have solar systems of planets around them) And then from there, there are 100 billion other galaxies -- statistically it seems impossible that we are alone.
But, at least to me, this brings up some other questions. If life has evolved why do we see no evidence -- why the great silence? After all, the Sun is a third generation star, so there should be life evolved far beyond our own technology. The only reasonings I can think of are
a) space is enormously huge. if limited by the speed of light, it would take thousands of years just to traverse within our own galaxy. Maybe even other vastly more intelligent beings can't supersede its limits.
b) it takes life billions of years to evolve from one cellular to a multi-cellular collection of organic molecules. Thus, beings like people and trees may be be comparatively rare in the known universe.
or
c) It could be that life's design, ultimately a danger to themselves, destroys itself. (and perhaps the planet, as well)
Basically, I see no reason why we shouldn't be announcing microbial life found on Mars or another planets fairly soon. I wonder if this will have any religious impacts, as well.
what are your ideas?
tt;dr = IMO, too much space, has to be other organic matter somewhere.
I personally see no reason why the same chemical processes that lead to life here on Earth shouldn't have lead to life on many other worlds. If you look at the scale of the Milky Way (around 100 billion Stars(suns), most of which have solar systems of planets around them) And then from there, there are 100 billion other galaxies -- statistically it seems impossible that we are alone.
But, at least to me, this brings up some other questions. If life has evolved why do we see no evidence -- why the great silence? After all, the Sun is a third generation star, so there should be life evolved far beyond our own technology. The only reasonings I can think of are
a) space is enormously huge. if limited by the speed of light, it would take thousands of years just to traverse within our own galaxy. Maybe even other vastly more intelligent beings can't supersede its limits.
b) it takes life billions of years to evolve from one cellular to a multi-cellular collection of organic molecules. Thus, beings like people and trees may be be comparatively rare in the known universe.
or
c) It could be that life's design, ultimately a danger to themselves, destroys itself. (and perhaps the planet, as well)
Basically, I see no reason why we shouldn't be announcing microbial life found on Mars or another planets fairly soon. I wonder if this will have any religious impacts, as well.
what are your ideas?
tt;dr = IMO, too much space, has to be other organic matter somewhere.
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They ARE destruction. Black Holes are where gravity is so strong that a large star gets sucked into an infinitely small point with a force so strong no light can escape it, rendering it and the surronding material that is also getting engulfed black. If they blew up the ejection wouldn't even have light escape. (Quasars are different)
