Moon may prove there is no life other than on earth

by joelbear 32 Replies latest jw experiences

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  moshe

  With the TRILLIONS of GALAXIES and GOOGLES of stars there have to be some with life on them!!

  Maybe, but why don't our radio telecopes pick up any signals from those worlds? Finding intelligent life that can communicate with another solar sytem and it's species survive long enough to receive a reply is a tall order.It's unlikely that two worlds would be close enough and at the same advanced level of evolution to communicate. Will civilization still be advanced or even functioning in 1000 years to hear the reply to our 1st radio signals that went into space? We might have reverted back to hunter-gatherer societies by then.

  Now green slime is not so hard to find- that's what you start with and finally end up with just before the planet is destroyed by the natural birth/death cycle of a star.
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  RodentBoy

  moshe wrote:

  Maybe, but why don't our radio telecopes pick up any signals from those worlds? Finding intelligent life that can communicate with another solar sytem and it's species survive long enough to receive a reply is a tall order.It's unlikely that two worlds would be close enough and at the same advanced level of evolution to communicate. Will civilization still be advanced or even functioning in 1000 years to hear the reply to our 1st radio signals that went into space? We might have reverted back to hunter-gatherer societies by then.

  Now green slime is not so hard to find- that's what you start with and finally end up with just before the planet is destroyed by the natural birth/death cycle of a star.

  Well, first of all, we've only been truly looking for about thirty years or so, so it's not as if we're centuries into the project.

  SETI, which is the project that does this, is essentially looking for a signal that is intentionally sent from an alien race in an attempt to communicate with us. Unlike fanciful notions of us picking up some alien's version of I Love Lucy, such ordinary transmissions would be so low in power that the chance of us stumbling upon those signals (or visa versa) would be infinitesimally small. I don't think we've even sent that many intentional signals to attract the attention of aliens, and I don't suppose there's any reason to assume that they would be any different.

  The number of candidate stars even in our own galaxy is enormous. I think it's pretty darn early to throw cold water on the search.
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  jojochan

  There MUST be intelligent life out there...they're staying far away from us.

  I don't blame them at all.

  jojochan.
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  FairMind

  There is no way anyone can tell me that our sun is the only one with a planet that has a planet-moon ratio like or similar to ours.

  Elsewhere, our sun is the only one with a planet that has a planet-moon ratio like or similar to ours. The odds that I'm wrong are overwhelming.
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  mkr32208

  there are so many grains of sand on the see, one of them must be a diamond.

  apples to apples here please!

  I will bet a gazillion dollars that there is life on other planets (notice I didn't say INTELLEGENT life just life) prove me wrong...
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  DaveNwisconsin

  When you think of the vastness out there, I would like to think there is life out there. Maybe on there planet they have it right and there are no Jehovah groups on that planet. Rutherford(spelling) is from this planet so it should be a safe bet.
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  Woodsman

  If we destroy the earth, there will be silence.

  Silence ain't bad
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  Nathan Natas

  I think the theory about the moon being essential for the formation of life is incorrect.

  I think that in a few years we will have proof that life - perhaps only "green slime" but LIVING gren slime - was once common to Mars.

  I also think that life will be found on Europa - which doesn't have a moon but rather is itself a moon.

  There are other ways to get tidal forces, a moon isn't neccessary. In the case of Europa, it experiences tides as a result of the massive gravity of Jupiter. Other planets could experience tides as a result of their binary suns.

  Look at the variety of "extreme life" found right here on earth: bacteria that enjoy the toasty clime of a hot sulfuric acid pool, tube worms and crabs and more that live at crushing depths in ocean trenches, basking in the scalding warmth of a geothermal vent. Just this past week a new fish was discovered - the world's tiniest - and it lives in acid swampwater, and IT LIKES IT! :)

  Life on earth didn't evolve as depicted in the PHOTODRAMA OF CREATION. Russell didn't know that the master race of planet earth for a long, long time was the trilobites - who filled all kinds of environmental niches and grew in a bewildering variety of forms. Then something happened, an extinction level event that marked the end of an era.

  BOOM!

  But not all life was gone. Some life continued. A lineage survived. Just the right lineage to bring forth in the fullness of time antoher planetary master race - the therapsids, land dwelling strange creatures that looked like a cross between a mammal and a lizard.

  KA-POW!

  Again, a major culling of the gene pool, a severe reduction in the global population, and something survived; something that would become the dinosaurs.

  BAM!

  Another shock to the system, and the mammals found they had a chance at greatness.

  Will man exterminate himself? Will the planet notice? I think that we don't have the ability to destroy all (ALL) life on earth. Something will survive beyond us, and the cycle will repeat until the sun runs out of fuel and toasts the orb, and somewhere, someone will look at a new star on the horizon and ask, "Did you see that?"
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  AuldSoul

  Joelbear, it is perhaps noteworthy that the moon has been historically worshipped as the mother.

  Drake's equation is an exercise is guesswork, there are far more factors involved in the development and perpetuation of life than his equation suggests. Given that, there is still the clear possibility of other life because there is a reality of life. Even believers in the Bible have no reason to assume there is not other life outside of earth, especially if they believe in angels.

  Respectfully,
  AuldSoul
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  M.J.

  I think that in a few years we will have proof that life - perhaps only "green slime" but LIVING green slime - was once common to Mars.

  That would be something. I wonder what the fundamentalist/WTS spin would be on that.