Are We A Privileged Planet? - (are we "alone" among billions of galaxies, stars & planets?)

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE ONLINE.COM ^ | JUNE 10, 2005 | WILLIAM TUCKER

[MHGinTN]

I'm wondering if the orientation of two hydrogens to one oxygen (they line up opposite each other as I understand it) has anything to do with why the solid crystalline state is lighter (less molecules per volume in the crystalline form).

[thomaswest]

You are correct about this. My error.

May I prefer a legend from China? They have a history back 3000 years. I just wanted to know where the religious police might take over.

[Dark Skies]

Alone? Maybe, but I guess we will find out.

However, on this planet, I have heard that we are comforted by the spawn of Satan...

Invoke the name of Yeshua to repell these nasty pests.

[TennCon]

All of the points you have discussed, including time span and chemistry, in the possibility and development of life are covered in the book Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon. He also has a website.

It's an interesting book, regardless of which side of the origin of life divide you fall.

[gamarob1]

Bible never mentions aliens from outer space (yeah, that will be a popular answer). So it seems that either God didn't create any, or, if He did, He felt no need to tell us about it, which makes me doubt that we'd EVER see any real ones.

Biblically the "aliens" would be demons entertaining the sci-fi fascinations of humans

[Dark Skies]

Read Enoch...look for "nephilim."

Nothing extra about it...

[quantim]

Sort out the difference between 'weight' and 'mass' and you'll know. And how Earth is spinning relative to the Sun, and how fast the Sun is moving around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, and how this Galaxy is moving relative to the observable Universe.

If you had any idea on how fast you were moving through space relative to other major bodies even though you think you're sitting still you'd pee your pants if you could calculate how fast you're flying now. It's basic Newtonian math.

[thomaswest]

"All solids shall be denser than their liquids except water."

Not quite. It is unusual when soilds are less dense than their liquids, but 'type metal', an alloy of antimony, bismuth, and tin also has this property. It's been used for 300 years, because when poured into typeface molds, it expands to fill the serifs. Pouring lead would cause shrinking from the facies, leading to a poorly formed letter. B. Franklin knew this well.

It is indeed remarkable that water is most dense at 3.9 degrees C. As evidence for a deity, I am doubtful. I note that ID never has accounted for Brownian motion nor extinctions in their idea of "design".

[gamarob1]

Nephilim as in, the demons that united with man?

Yep, nothing "extra" about it at all

[Prophet in the wilderness]

would 1 oz of water in a liquid form, weigh the same as 1 oz of water froze ?

[Dark Skies]

Yup...can't attest to it...but it sure feels right.

[Spandau]

I believe we were created by aliens as part of an experiment that was abandoned and allowed to run wild.

[gamarob1]

Yeah, I think that's it too.

This reminds me of my old time Chuck Missler studies LOL

[guitfiddlist]

"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

...lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches...

..Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans."

- Foreword to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Another little gem from one of the five books of the Hitchhiker's "Trilogy" is the description of a planet whose only intelligent life form is a bat-like creature that hangs upside down from trees. Every now and then, some of these creatures get thrown off their branches for the crime of speculating that their might be intelligent life on other trees.

Rest in Peace, Douglas Adams.

[Dark Skies]

Could be. But that would make Yeshua a liar.

And for students of history...it isn't that far back. When one looks at what He has accomplished...the question remains.

Is he a liar?

[Doe Eyes]

Floating is a volume/weight thing. Ice floats because it has a greater volume per unit weight than water. Same with boats.

[mercy]

Privileged planet?! Ha.

More like an isolation ward.

[quantim]

Sort out the difference between 'weight' and 'mass' and you'll know.

Again.

[RebelTex]

"Perhaps there is a way to write the small "22" (22nd power), but I don't have that capability,..."

Char - here's how you do it:

10<*sup*>22<*/sup*>

Copy the line above and then remove all the *, then recopy and paste it into your post and you get 10²²

(The *  is not part of an html tag, which is why I could use it to show you the code - sup stands for superscript.)

[Red Sea Swimmer]

No aliens. This is the Planet we were given by the Creator. We are first to make this little, blue planet in space a literal Ganeden. We can worry about other places in space later.

On the day that Armstrong put his foot on the moon, how many murders were committed on Planet Earth ? How many children were abused ? How many rapes took place ?