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Chris OConnor 
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Chris OConnor
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 Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:03 am Post subject: Re: Do you believe life exists elsewhere in the...
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My answer was...
The universe is filled with lifeforms of all sorts
Am I sure of this? Of course I don't know this for a fact, but I am so confident I would be more than willing to gamble my very life on it right this second.
With the size of the cosmos how could life not exist elsewhere? It almost seems like a mathematicl impossibility.
Chris "For Every Winner, There Are Dozens Of Losers. Odds Are You're One Of Them" |
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RickU
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Do you believe life exists elsewhere in the...
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| My vote was that it's rare...but by rare I mean only to say that I don't believe life and especially advanced life forms to be a common occurence even on planets that have the correct conditions for it. The chances of (at least our type of life) the amino acids stacking in just the right manner etc...are exceedingly slim. But if it happened here, it MUST have happened elsewhere as well. |
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Mr. Pessimistic
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:57 am Post subject: Re: Do you believe life exists elsewhere in the...
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I chose #3. Life is rare, but I do think there are advanced forms out there beside us.
I do not think the universe is chock full o' life, relative to the size of it all.
Mr. P. The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P. |
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Chris OConnor
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tarav
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Do you believe life exists elsewhere in the...
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| I chose option three. As Sagan explains in a footnote on page 31of Pale Blue Dot, "Our universe is almost incompatible with life-or at least what we understand as necessary for life... The rest is cold, radiation-riddled black vacuum". However, he does say, "almost"! |
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