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11-01-2009, 11:25 AM
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Why would God have created the whole cosmos & only had something called "life" form on this one small, backwards jerkwater of a planet ? And I can't see how it takes away from the "Majesty" of God for Him to have made life in LOTS of places. But maybe "sentient" life-Navel-gazers, if you will-IS fairly rare. After all, of ALL the many different types of life here, apparently WE'RE the only type that does. I dunno-If there IS another Earth-type planet somewhere, I'd like to go to THEIR 1954 & buy up a bunch of CT-100s...Take 'em a bunch of OUR POS LCDs & plasmas...Swap 'em a bunch of THEIR 1933 Duesenbergs for a couple 2010 Mercedes 500SELs...My damn luck, though, the CT-100s would be 220 volts or something, & their Doozies would be 2' long...
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11-01-2009, 12:30 PM
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I rather doubt the Platypus considers himself a mistake....(grin)
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11-01-2009, 03:23 PM
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I rather doubt the Platypus considers himself a mistake....(grin)
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Touche'.
I am as wierd as the platypus and I consider myself to be the only sane person in a world gone insane.
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11-01-2009, 04:34 PM
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"the only sane person in a world gone insane."
Me and you both!!!....???
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11-02-2009, 06:59 AM
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11-02-2009, 05:13 PM
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"ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US...." Gaaaaaaack !!
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11-04-2009, 09:52 AM
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I'm a firm believer that earth is the galactic tourism destination. We are the ultimate zoo. We have quaint little wars. Auto racing. Water. Either that or field trips for school kids to observe how not to treat your planet.
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11-04-2009, 11:33 AM
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I'm a firm believer that earth is the galactic tourism destination. We are the ultimate zoo. We have quaint little wars. Auto racing. Water. Either that or field trips for school kids to observe how not to treat your planet.
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Exactly!
Right now, the're up there in the mothership, smoking a joint, watching our government and laughing their asses off.
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11-04-2009, 12:37 PM
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You're like the general in the '50s sci-fi flick who has his artillery fire on the saucer because - hey, ya never know - they might not wanna make friends.
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I am? In what way? Maybe you are assuming to much from one post.
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Please note . It was a joke.
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I grant you that it's hard to think outside the box
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Actually my thought is outside the box of the popular belief although it is share by a large number in the scientific community.
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Can you offer any support for that?
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of what motivates us as a species but I believe it's a mistake to assume that an alien (in every sense of the word) species would operate in accordance with the same imperatives as we do.
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and you base this on what? Why should we assume intelligent life from another world would be different than all life forms here? It's seems an odd leap you are making.
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I think it's you who is making a leap here. I'm not saying that we shouldn't assume alien life forms will share our motivations, etc. I'm saying we should make no assumptions either way.
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In all the universe there are simply no.... universals.
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Well we do know life is energy and in order to sustain energy (life force) all species convert other species energies for their own. Even things we do not consider life forms like stars charge material into energy to sustain itself.
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That's actually not true. Ever hear of "black smokers"? They're deep undersea vents which support unique life forms. Some of those life forms have evolved to derive all of their nourishment from the chemicals contained in the material vented into the water. (They've also evolved to live at incredibly high temperatures and pressures and a complete absence of light but that's another story.) The process is called chemosynthesis and was unknown until the discovery of the vents around thirty years ago.
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Also, there are ways and there are ways to use the energy of other living things. Not all are parasitic, predatory or otherwise destructive of the life form being so used.
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Did I say otherwise?
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No, but I didn't say you did.
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11-04-2009, 09:06 PM
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Can you offer any support for that?
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Yes lot's. (although I am to tired to provide links)
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I think it's you who is making a leap here. I'm not saying that we should assume alien life forms will share our motivations, etc. I'm saying we should make no assumptions either way.
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I think we can look at nature and make an educated guess. That being said anything is possible.
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That's actually not true. Ever hear of "black smokers"? They're deep undersea vents which support unique life forms. Some of those life forms have evolved to derive all of their nourishment from the chemicals contained in the material vented into the water. (They've also evolved to live at incredibly high temperatures and pressures and a complete absence of light but that's another story.) The process is called chemosynthesis and was unknown until the discovery of the vents around thirty years ago.
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Aren't you making my point? and yes I know all about it, frankly i was surprised that science seemed surprised that they could live as they do.
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