Posted on 09/21/2017 4:33:12 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Too many people with too much time on their hands and income and or wealth and or taxpayer funding to spend that idle time on useless endeavors.
The chances are 50/50 that “alien” life will “find us” before we find them, so spend our “space” time on matters of empirical science that will be productive and useful to physically exploring space, and leave the “life on other planets” question open to being addressed BY SPACE EXPLORATION, period.
What the?????
NASA took a shot at trying to start life on Mars?
Now there’s a good idea.
If this world comes to an end, it won’t be because of someone wearing a three piece suit or a uniform.
It will be because of some knot head in a lab coat going,
“I wonder what will happen if we try this?”
It gets tricky. I was told, on this forum and by a Freeper, that trees are conscious life.
We are them, they are us.
They walk amoung us yet you don’t see them.
Or as a famous man once said, “in my Fathers house are many mansions”
They didn’t try to “start” life on Mars, but animate any dormant or hibernating life that might have been present. What do you perceive might be dangerous in doing that?
Then their brains could be run like quantum computers.
Or what about intelligent beings with molten metal running through their veins. That would be gee whiz bang cool.
Once we develop superluminal flight, which I'm sure we'll have in a few decades, then we can explore all of these fantastical possibilities.
Or maybe we could spend the money here on Earth trying to figure out why what little intelligent life there is seems to be going extinct.
Do not awaken the sleepers!
Never heard of ‘em, but should have. I lived in the area where Alice in Chains erupted and I was a fan of Pearl Jam.
I’ll have to look them up.
I'm not sure what living rocks you may have seen on the totally fictional series Star Trek, but modern scientists might actually be led to consider such things because of actual scientific evidence. They are NOT being "unoriginal" and somehow stealing a wacky idea from science fiction. To believe otherwise is like believing Wilbur and Orville Wright were "unoriginal" and stole the idea of flight from Icarius.
Great series with Phillip Glenister.
Sleeper is one of my favorite Woody Allen movies.
“Chances are, if we can imagine it, it’s probably out there on a planet somewhere,’ said Morgan Cable, an astrochemist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “
If you want information about biology its always best to ask a chemist.
I disagree. If 99% of all planets with life only have microbial life on them, why would you think microbes have the same chance of finding us as we have of finding them?
Secondly, it'll be far better, not to mention cheaper, if we can detect and study those life forms with fancy new telescopes, etc., than addressing the issue by putting men in veeeeeery expensive starships and sending them to the stars.
Black Goo.
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