Earth is Probably Unique
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The edge of the coin is for "unique", IMO...
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JimC wrote:The edge of the coin is for "unique", IMO...
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Yabbut,Hermit wrote:JimC wrote:The edge of the coin is for "unique", IMO...
which edge ? :
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Re: Earth is Probably Unique
Earth is probably unique in exactly the same way as nobody will ever win the euro-millions lottery I mean the odds are astronomical .........
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It's only a step from earth is unique to Humans are unique to inventing gods .......
Fragile ego obscuring reality.
It's only a step from earth is unique to Humans are unique to inventing gods .......
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Re: Earth is Probably Unique
I don't personally think that life is unique by any means. I think it's probably very widespread across the Milky Way. Let alone across the universe. The numbers are just so gigantic that it has to be so.
What I would say though, is that it is possible that there's only one TYPE of life out there.
Life based on organic molecules operating in liquid water. Which is what we have on Earth. The fact that signs of life go back to the start of this planet, pretty much just after it cooled, means to me that it's likely to happen over and over again, in the galaxy, wherever there is liquid water.
I can't really believe that life only kick-started once on Earth. I know that that's what the geneticists say, but if it got wiped out by the established forms of life, each time a fresh version stared up, then there would be nothing left to show of it.
When you look at the number of planets that they are finding, after only a short time of being able to detect them, then if you extrapolate that to the whole Milky Way, there are billions of planets out there. And probably hundreds of billions of moons going around them.
What do you need for life to start? You don't need something as cosy as the Earth.
Even if the surface of a planet is bombarded by lethal radiation, you could still have life in the oceans. But it might be pretty basic and thinly distributed, under those circumstances.
Whether it's just one kind, similar to our organics, or whether there can be other kinds, that's just pure speculation right now. Even the experts in the field stress that we have no way of knowing. Some think it's very possible. Others reckon it's virtually impossible.
And these guys are professors in micro-biology.
I was reading one such the other day, who said that he could see no way of building a cell wall, other than by our own life-on-Earth type of organics.
Others disagreed. Can't remember what I was reading though.
What I would say though, is that it is possible that there's only one TYPE of life out there.
Life based on organic molecules operating in liquid water. Which is what we have on Earth. The fact that signs of life go back to the start of this planet, pretty much just after it cooled, means to me that it's likely to happen over and over again, in the galaxy, wherever there is liquid water.
I can't really believe that life only kick-started once on Earth. I know that that's what the geneticists say, but if it got wiped out by the established forms of life, each time a fresh version stared up, then there would be nothing left to show of it.
When you look at the number of planets that they are finding, after only a short time of being able to detect them, then if you extrapolate that to the whole Milky Way, there are billions of planets out there. And probably hundreds of billions of moons going around them.
What do you need for life to start? You don't need something as cosy as the Earth.
Even if the surface of a planet is bombarded by lethal radiation, you could still have life in the oceans. But it might be pretty basic and thinly distributed, under those circumstances.
Whether it's just one kind, similar to our organics, or whether there can be other kinds, that's just pure speculation right now. Even the experts in the field stress that we have no way of knowing. Some think it's very possible. Others reckon it's virtually impossible.
And these guys are professors in micro-biology.
I was reading one such the other day, who said that he could see no way of building a cell wall, other than by our own life-on-Earth type of organics.
Others disagreed. Can't remember what I was reading though.
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