summary - The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens. But life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, say astrobiologists. In research aiming to understand how life might develop, the scientists realized new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets.
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Aliens
Science Daily: The aliens are silent because they're dead - Life on other planets would probably go extinct soon after its origin, due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets
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Nonsense. What this report misses is that all those things have already happened on Earth and LIFE proved itself to be incredibly resilient and has survived nonetheless. I would say just the opposite is probably the case. Life is probably everywhere, not necessarily in our solar system , but look at the math and what are the odds? Just because we haven't yet found any or any like life on Earth doesn't mean it isn't out there.
I tend to agree with you simply on the side of numbers and odds, the universe is vast beyond understanding. But I did like reading an opposing view from the point that it made me think about how in the context of billions of years, even a few million years are a pittance. So in one sense it made me think about how rare our tiny little sliver of time and life is.
Their is a kind of smug conceit and lack of imagination at the core of this so called study.
Yeah, that's a conceit of being a university employee.
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