Quote Originally Posted by hempsmoker25
ok, i was watching Armageddon last night when this idea came to me, hit me like a ton of bricks. anyways scientists beleive an astroid (meteor) killed the dinosaurs, and made them extinct, but what if there was bacteria on the asteroid (meteor) that human life evolved off of? It answers the question why there are no other intelligent beings found so far, because we are already here.
Actually, there is a working theory that the "stuff of life" was deposited by a comet or asteroid long before the dinosaurs came along. That being said, there are no intelligent beings found so far because out technology is still in it's infancy and space is big...really big. It's not easy for a lot of folks to wrap their head around just how big those cosmic distances are. The sun is about 93,000,000 miles away from earth. It takes about 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach the earth with the light moving at 186,000 miles per second. The nearest star is 4 light years away which means the light takes 4 years to get from there to here and vice versa. That's 186,000 x 60(seconds) x 60(minutes) x 24(hours) x 365(days) x 4 miles. That's a shitload of miles. Einstein says that there is no way to travel at the speed of light because as speed increases and reaches that speed, so does mass so there is no way to carry enought fuel to even reach that speed much less slow down. This is all based on out current limited knowledge of physics and there may be ways to get around that barrier such as wormholes or warping space. We know also from Einstein that large gravitational fields (such as those around planets and stars) are capable of "warping" the space around them so if we can figure out how to manipulate gravitational fields we might be able to use them to warp space or in other words, create some kind of warp drive. But at this point in time we can't even measure gravity, only it's effects on us and our environment.

Sheer probability says that there is other life out there somewhere...whether or not there is intelligent life here is still up for debate.
bonsaiguy Reviewed by bonsaiguy on . theory of life (maybe) ok, i was watching Armageddon last night when this idea came to me, hit me like a ton of bricks. anyways scientists beleive an astroid (meteor) killed the dinosaurs, and made them extinct, but what if there was bacteria on the asteroid (meteor) that human life evolved off of? It answers the question why there are no other intelligent beings found so far, because we are already here. Rating: 5