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re: Close up of Andromeda galaxy shows how many stars there really are
Posted on 6/4/18 at 6:01 am to AUsteriskPride
Posted on 6/4/18 at 6:01 am to AUsteriskPride
the remake of "the cosmos" series on Netflix really blew my mind with some of this stuff
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Posted on 6/4/18 at 6:10 am to AUsteriskPride
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Sometimes I wish when you died, you just got to float around endlessly looking at space (with speed of light travel and wormhole maps of course).
I will do that when they add cell coverage.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 6:18 am to mtntiger
quote:Well, well. Is humility back in style?
I mean, really. Damn. We are but a speck on the arse of a speck.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 6:18 am to DavidTheGnome
So how many are there?? I could not count them.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 7:31 am to DavidTheGnome
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"We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space." -anonymous
Posted on 6/4/18 at 7:37 am to DavidTheGnome
Seeing shite like that makes driving in to work every morning seem incredibly ridiculous.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 8:50 am to jbgleason
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LoL at the people who think we are the only intelligent life forms in that mass
Define "intelligent". I just hope we are not as intelligent as it gets.....lol.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 8:57 am to DavidTheGnome
And yet there are some people who actually believe there is no other intelligent life anywhere out there.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 9:55 am to lsufan112001
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wonder how many Predator space ships are flying around in that mass headed to their next drop off planet ?
Kinda like a hunting club.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:41 am to Sentrius
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This is why I just fricking roll my eyes at people who say we're really alone in the universe.
The math and statistical odds do not support that narrative.
I roll my eyes at people who say this. Math and statistics have nothing to say about these probabilities. It's a total fallacy, and yet I even hear people at NASA saying it.
Arrogance and/or ignorance.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:48 am to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:52 am to holdem Tiger
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Math and statistics have nothing to say about these probabilities.
Please explain...
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:56 am to Boudreaux35
There is actually strong arguments that what we call intelligent life is statically impossible to achieve. Everyone agrees bacteria exists in abundance. But making the jump to multi cell organisms is difficult. TL;DR version: we could be the alpha lifeforms of the universe.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 10:56 am to DavidTheGnome
When are we getting lightsabers?
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:05 am to AUCE05
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There is actually strong arguments that what we call intelligent life is statically impossible to achieve. Everyone agrees bacteria exists in abundance. But making the jump to multi cell organisms is difficult. TL;DR version: we could be the alpha lifeforms of the universe.
Yep. On the one hand, it is pretty much agreed that life exists relatively abundantly in the universe. There maybe life on one of Saturn's moons, may have been life on Mars and or venus in the past etc, just in our solar system.
However, life as intelligent or more intelligent than humans may not exist and may have never existed. Dunno.
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 11:06 am
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:08 am to FutureMikeVIII
It is just impossible to say what the "numerator" in any such probability / statistical model may be if the denominator is habitable / earth like planets or however you end up trying to define it.
The more and more we discover about the Universe the rarer our solar system / sun / earth combination appears to be. In addition, all of the correct building blocks for life to develop need to reach a planet which is conducive to such evolution at the right time of that planets lifespan, at the right time in its solar system / sun's life span. Also that life-form would need to survive whatever global extinction level events and still be present at this current time.
I am not saying I think we are alone, but the common statement about the sheer number of stars meaning there has to be other intelligent life out there to be disingenuous in regards to just how incredible it is that the way that our solar system / earth / humans developed to reach our current state.
- There are a whole lot of connotations in this kind of discussions such as what kind of life we are talking about, potential that the observable universe is just a speck in a much much larger field of "multiverses, which we just can't see due to the constraints of time and the speed of light, etc., which make it difficult to get to deep into it on a message board though.
The more and more we discover about the Universe the rarer our solar system / sun / earth combination appears to be. In addition, all of the correct building blocks for life to develop need to reach a planet which is conducive to such evolution at the right time of that planets lifespan, at the right time in its solar system / sun's life span. Also that life-form would need to survive whatever global extinction level events and still be present at this current time.
I am not saying I think we are alone, but the common statement about the sheer number of stars meaning there has to be other intelligent life out there to be disingenuous in regards to just how incredible it is that the way that our solar system / earth / humans developed to reach our current state.
- There are a whole lot of connotations in this kind of discussions such as what kind of life we are talking about, potential that the observable universe is just a speck in a much much larger field of "multiverses, which we just can't see due to the constraints of time and the speed of light, etc., which make it difficult to get to deep into it on a message board though.
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 11:10 am
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:13 am to Sneaky__Sally
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the rarer our solar system / sun / earth combination appears to be
And our moon including its size and distance from us. We would probably not exist without it.
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:30 am to holdem Tiger
O get what you’re saying and agree to a point. Right now our sample size for life existing in the universe is a whopping one. No real conclusions can be drawn from that. If we were to find any form of life that originated anywhere other than our planet, well that all of the sudden opens up all sorts of possibilities. Until we find that though there’s no way to know whether we are unique or not
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:33 am to DavidTheGnome
I wonder how many other planets have "climate change" too
Posted on 6/4/18 at 11:54 am to Higgysmalls
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the remake of "the cosmos" series on Netflix really blew my mind with some of this stuff
The old "Cosmos" was much better than the newer one. I could not stand the animations and narration of the newer one. Carl Sagan was the GOAT, RIP. Highly recommend watching the older one to anyone who enjoyed the new one, even though it is ~40 years old, it still is my favorite science series of all time.
A new mini series I watched recently was "Order and Disorder" with Professor Jim Al-Khalili that goes in depth about energy, the second law of thermodynamics and information. It is very very good and I would def recommend it to anyone interested. LINK
This post was edited on 6/4/18 at 11:59 am
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