Extra-Terrestrial Life

Do you believe extraterrestrial life exists?

  • yes

    Votes: 19 86.4%
  • no

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Total voters
    22

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Extra-Terrestial Life

QUOTE=Oneiros;26564]I haven't seen any either, at least not with these two eyes. ;)[/QUOTE]
So what is the basis of your belief then, pure faith and faith alone? :confused: :angel:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
By crikey Steve you dragged an old but interesting thread from the depths, 2007 and CD is still with us ??? I heard a Lady on the old steam radio answer thus to the question (is there life out there) “if there isn’t then its an awful waste of space”
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Colin, isn't that also a quote from this Contact movie with Jodie Foster?

I don't know, I heard it on the radio quite a few years ago and it just stuck in my mind, she was a scientist but who was copying who I can't say, there is a grain of reason there. but I may be totally confused again :confused:
 

Chi_townPhilly

Sr. Regulator
Sr. Regulator
I saw some interesting speculation concerning the most likely initial scenario for a "close encounter" on a TV program (don't remember which one). the point one individual made was that the most likely first encounter would NOT be with the life-forms of another place in space, but with their probes/surveyors/machines. Think about it- biological life has some fragilities that militate against interstellar journeys... machines, not so much.

Of course, visitation by a survey-probe makes for much less exciting Science Fiction than visitation by a bipedal alien walking down the gangway of the Flying Saucer.:rolleyes:
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Any sort of contact (probe etc) would be sufficient to prove that there was, or had been another culture. But would they still be alive? i.e. 2001, A Space Odyssey. How awful if they were now extinct, and how would we know. I believe half the reason we like to believe in other beings is the enormity of realising we are the only ones around, in all that space. Also, is space finite? going by normal rules the answer should be yes (every thing must have a beginning and an end) but it is a possibility that other rules exist. Sort of scary isn't it.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." ;);)

The distances involved are stagering but who knows??
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Panspermia is an idea that appeals to me just roughly I think it means That life could have been and is being spread through out the universe by this method.

This is copied from an www page

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 1997, 50, 93-102. By:

Michael N. Mautner,
Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 23284
Department of Chemistry University of Canterbury, Christchurch 8001, New Zealand**



1. IntroductionPanspermia, natural or directed, is a possible mechanism for the spread of life through interstellar space [1-7]. In fact, we may be already capable to use solar sail technology for seeding nearby new planetary systems with our DNA/protein form of life [4-6]. The program can become realistic in decades, due to rapid advances in high-precision astrometry, advanced propulsion, discovery of extrasolar planetary systems, and microbial genetic engineering [5]. An essential component for realising directed panspermia is the ethical motivation. Seeding distant planets with life is the ultimate altruism, bearing results long after the generations that implement it. The ethical motivation for such a program must recognise (1) the unique position of complex, self-propagating organic Life in Nature; (2) the unity of all organic, cellular DNA/protein life, from microbes to humans and post-humans; (3) and, consequently, the primary human purpose, to safeguard and propagate our life-form [4,5]. Prime targets for biological expansion can be regions of interstellar clouds where newly forming stars and planetary systems are concentrated. The discussion below will consider the physical environments of such regions, and the implications for the microbial missions. The article will survey both the technological and ethical aspects of seeding with life star-forming interstellar clouds.
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Br. Colin,

CD is still here - "groan,mumble,grumble.............";););)

E.T. - what a humorous concept by the "blind" leading the "feeble".

I shant add anything else for it is much too humorous that which I'm already reading...

Respectfully yours,

CD :tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat:
 
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teddy

Duckmeister
Br. Colin,


E.T. - what a humorous concept by the "blind" leading the "feeble".



My initials are coincidentialy E T What with my eyesight and my wifes condition this gave us an unexpected laugh.

teddy
 
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Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Sir Duckmeister Teddy,

Strange coincidences can and will take place at the most unexpected of moments.

Now then, about Murphy's Law.............;););)
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Br. Colin,

CD is still here - "groan,mumble,grumble.............";););)

E.T. - what a humorous concept by the "blind" leading the "feeble".


Respectfully yours,

CD :tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat::tiphat:

You surly are not saying that you don,t believe in Flying Plate things and 3 leged thingies like as what were in the Trifffids :eek:
 

Corno Dolce

Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Br. Colin,

Heaven forfend if I should entertain thoughts about those furry little gremlins called "triffids".



:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Br. Colin,

Heaven forfend if I should entertain thoughts about those furry little gremlins called "triffids".



:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
Ha Ha CD I got ya I said trifffids. :grin: just about you lunch time ??
 

Chi_townPhilly

Sr. Regulator
Sr. Regulator
What goes into life...

With the idea that 'CD' might find some affinity with this line of reasoning- I thought I'd go ahead and add...

There are c. 80 Amino Acids.

Amino Acids have a 'handedness,' (has to do with the aspect-structure at the molecular level), and they're even with regard to right and left handed.

ONLY left-handed Amino Acids work in living matter.

Only half of the left-handed Amino Acids are PRESENT in living matter.

These Amino Acids need to be present in particular sequences, AND have the capacity to form peptide bonds to link in the three-dimensional pattern necessary to have a chance of constructing a protein.

Approximately a hundred Amino Acids make up a typical protein molecule.

Roughly 200 protein molecules are required to perform the minimum functions of ONE living cell.

Now, all of the above isn't enough to make me scoff entirely at the idea of extra-terrestrial life, but it IS enough to bemuse me every time breathless commentators excitedly say that some place in deep space "has water... so it MIGHT have life!!":rolleyes::lol:
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Just a thought where did these Amino Acids come from?
 
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