Life in our galaxy? What's your view on the universe?

[mrdevious]

i heard the other day that life on earth may have come from another planet, for example bits of mars fall on earth quite often so if one of these rocks had some sort of life on it then it may breed and evolve....

so i was thinking maybe we started off on another planet burnt it out and with no other hope of survival packed a rock with dna or whatever and shot it into space in the desperate hope that it would land on another planet and go from there....

Well, there's no ruins of a previous civilization on mars, and they would have just sent actually colonists rather than DNA if they had to evacuate. unless you meant any planet, not just mars.

[naturalmystic]

There are too many truths and revalations about the universe that we will never comprehend.


P.S. - all great empires come to an end, I hope the U.S. isn't seeing it's last days.

[mrdevious]

P.S. - all great empires come to an end, I hope the U.S. isn't seeing it's last days.

well rest assured, Canada is preparring to sweep in and take over as soon as it colapses! mwahahahahaha.......... and so on....

[Ganj]

It's called gravity...lol...just kidding, but you're theory has a hole in it...we don't all smoke herb.

i never said we all smoked herb. we're all human-beings though.
the universe is so immense that we don't even know everything that is possible. deep in space, there is us in the future. i find it hard to believe that our lives aren't predetermined. it'd be scary to think that we are all just spontaneous acts of random. perhaps that's where deja vu comes from. hey. it's a theory...

[likemclever]

Well, my favorite is "Robots and Empire", but that's because it is the one that I chose to read first. Ayn Rand is another one of my favorite authors. I think she died, and I didn't know Isaac Asimov is out there. I haven't checked up much on either because my soul has been on the back-burner for 35 dog-years. In other words, my girlfriend sucked out all my motivation to continue 80% of the activities that I, once, enjoyed.
I've never even heard of A. E. Van Vogt.
Reading is like bowling to me. I'm good enough to do it, but I can't find anyone to help me indulge in it.

I â??datedâ?� a guy one time that was into Ayn Rand. He was such a self-centered prickâ?¦.he gave me â??Atlas Shruggedâ?� and I have yet to read it.

You canâ??t blame anyone else about your soulâ?¦.shame, shameâ?¦..

As far as the Universe goes��Hmmmmmm.

I used to think of the universe as being in the consciousness God â?¦.but then I wondered how evil could exist in such circumstances and decided that it couldnâ??t.

I do believe in a divine creator â?¦..and I am a Christian.

But I do like learning about other religions.

Iâ??m really digging metaphysics right nowâ?¦itâ??s not a religion â?¦..but itâ??s something special.

p.s. I also heard something about the rings of Saturn gitting smaller....thought that was strange.

[beachguy in thongs]

a self-centered prickâ?¦.he gave me â??Atlas Shruggedâ?� and I have yet to read it.

Us Ayn Rand admirers are all alike. ^. I have "Atlas Shrugged" laying around somewhere. I stole it from my High School Library, but it's no "Anthem", and I've yet to read it, also.

Ganj, I wasn't implying that you said that (about everyone smoking herb), I was saying the only way we could pull off your theory is if we all smoked herb.

Everything else stymies me. Why the moon is so close, and why we have only been there once. Maybe twice. So many years went by and we've made no progress (besides, seeing detail into the outer galaxy, which is AMAZING). I take it all back. Nothing stymies me and the moon is very far away.

[a. beezy]

I've taken two ast courses at utexas. It's just as crazy to believe we're the only intelligent life as it is to believe we're not. I love it.

[a. beezy]

One course was called "search for extraterrestrial life" as to not copy "search for extraterrestrial intelligence".

[beachguy in thongs]

There might be an entire civilization living in the core of Titan, that has evolved much further than us, and already destroyed their atmosphere like we're doing, and has migrated to life "within" the moon, which is as large as Earth. Maybe they know all about us through their advanced technology, but ,being the stoners that they are, are content to just sit back and relax within the core of Saturn's moon. One of them.

[OlympianBud]

life is a video game
and you don't really have control over what happens

Even if that is so and life is a video game...video games have rules...and once you get a hold of them you can have the control...and if you achieve elite status playin by the rules you just might get the chance to create your own...I think...