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Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else
getpocket.com ^ | 7.2.22 | Caroline Delbert

Posted on 07/02/2022 4:17:30 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else

Hell, our own evolution on Earth was pure luck.

In research published in 2020 from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, scientists study the likelihood of key times for evolution of life on Earth and conclude that it would be virtually impossible for that life to evolve the same way somewhere else.

Life has come a very long way in a very short time on Earth, relatively speaking—and scientists say that represents even more improbable luck for intelligent life that is rare to begin with.

For decades, scientists and even philosophers have chased many explanations for the Fermi paradox. How, in an infinitely big universe, can we be the only intelligent life we’ve ever encountered? Even on Earth itself, they wonder, how are we the only species that ever has evolved advanced intelligence?

There are countless naturally occurring, but extremely lucky ways in which Earth is special, sheltered, protected, and encouraged to have evolved life. And some key moments of emerging life seem much more likely than others, based on what really did happen.

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carolinedelbert; chat; evolution; excathedra; exobiology; fakescience; fermiparadox; god; limitinggod; moron; morons; nonsense; ntsa; popularmechanics; rareearth; rareearthbs; science; sezyou; ufo; ufos; xplanets
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Intelligent Life Really Can't Exist Anywhere Else

And it is arguable if it exists here.

41 posted on 07/02/2022 6:13:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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To: Jamestown1630

Yup,
Devils,Demonds and
Democrats.
;)


42 posted on 07/02/2022 6:23:26 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Jamestown1630

I have heard that “The Book of Enoch” says something about that. I have not read that Book so I don’t know if it is true.

Can you give any information about that?


43 posted on 07/02/2022 6:37:01 PM PDT by topsail
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To: DannyTN

The way things are going, I would also not rule out de-evolution.


44 posted on 07/02/2022 6:46:02 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

Yes de-evolution. Man isn’t coming from the apes, he’s going to them.


45 posted on 07/02/2022 6:52:00 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: topsail
From the Bible, we know that Enoch was Adam’s great-great-great-great grandson (and Noah’s great grandfather) who lived a holy and faithful life to the Lord. He also becomes the father of Methuselah, the longest-living man. Throughout his three-plus centuries on earth, he has numerous other offspring. Enoch is also only one of two people taken straight to heaven, escaping death altogether.
His book should be in the Bible, but it is not.
46 posted on 07/02/2022 6:59:43 PM PDT by dainbramaged (What did the cook say when the rat fell into the chowder? "Better luck next time.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
"Intelligent Life Really Can’t Exist Anywhere Else"...

You mean outside flyover country???

47 posted on 07/02/2022 7:04:36 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You are not walking this path alone--all who walked before you are lifting you. --Michael Singer)
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To: topsail

There are passages in The Book of Enoch that appear to be about space vehicles.

I believe this is a link where the translator has a bit of commentary that gives his interpretation of some of the passages.

It is well worth the read.

https://fliphtml5.com/qmba/gszl/basic


48 posted on 07/02/2022 7:12:39 PM PDT by Clay Moore (Make Jan. 6 Ashli Babbitt Remembrance Day )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I am almost certain that there is no intelligent life here on Earth.


49 posted on 07/02/2022 7:12:57 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

If humans get to define intelligence—that is cheating!


50 posted on 07/02/2022 7:15:04 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Big Red Badger

I think I’ve known a few Demonds.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Demond


51 posted on 07/02/2022 7:47:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Infinity and infinite possibilities do not mean that anything you imagine exists somewhere.

Probability, the laws of physics (especially the Second Law of Thermodynamics), Occam’s Razor, and others mean that given the set of infinite possibilities, there can still remain a set of the impossible that does not intersect.


52 posted on 07/02/2022 7:48:26 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We are a miracle - an infinite universe, an eternity of time to put our molecules together in a way that could paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. What would it mean to our self-image to conclude that we are the only life in all this unimaginable vastness?


53 posted on 07/02/2022 7:52:15 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: topsail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67gHlsWiKp0


54 posted on 07/02/2022 7:58:36 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

Beautifully put.


55 posted on 07/02/2022 8:05:17 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: GingisK

I come to FR for intelligent life.

Why are you here?


56 posted on 07/02/2022 8:06:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DannyTN

Since we can’t find intelligent life on earth, why does anyone expect they could find it somewhere else?


57 posted on 07/02/2022 8:08:37 PM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: cpdiii

He certainly didn’t leave any space on Earth unfilled with Life.

Why would He waste an entire Universe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5BdLVRg7Lo


58 posted on 07/02/2022 8:11:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: muir_redwoods

“There’s a world where Lincoln shot Booth, “

Have you read L Neil Smith’s “Probability Broach”? He has a mention of that happening in in the NAC universe.


59 posted on 07/02/2022 8:22:31 PM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Aarrgh,,,,
;)


60 posted on 07/02/2022 8:27:28 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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