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Originally posted by winofiend
If a pea is lost out at sea, floating on the high waves and crashing down into the never ending turbulence, do you think you could find it, if you had no idea where to look?
If not, why? You're a highly intelligent creature, far more intelligent than any pea?
If that pea is never found, does this mean that you do not exist?
Can you exist, and never find that pea?
We're that pea.
Other than being a popular science TV guy, what has Michio contributed to the understanding of whether their are aliens in space or not.
Originally posted by watchitburn
I like his analogy of having a conversation with a bug.
Ask your self this:
If aliens did make themselves known to us in a big public affair what do you think would be the first reaction?
We would shoot at them of course. That's what people do.
Now ask your self this:
What do you do, when you get bit by a bug?
We are just not interesting enough.
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by ThinkingCap
reply to post by sean
What about it?
Can we 100% accurately measure how far Hitler's broadcast has reached into the cosmos?
And why does "E.T" have to be from outside of the Milky Way galaxy in the first place?
Because it helps people deny something that may be a very real phenomena?
I think you are missing the point of that graphic.
Forget "outside the Milky Way". Our radio broadcasts have barely gone anywhere inside the Milky Way. It could be that other ET life has no idea that our civilization even exists, considering what a tiny dust spec we are compared to the galaxy, and also considering the tiny distance our radio waves have ever traveled.
It would be like standing on the shore of a deserted island, yelling out toward a ship passing way out on the far horizon, hoping someone on that ship can hear you.
edit on 3/22/2013 by Soylent Green Is People because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Mykey057420
Originally posted by Anonbeleiver77
Originally posted by ManInAsia
Originally posted by Anonbeleiver77
Originally posted by milomilo
Originally posted by Anonbeleiver77
Originally posted by raj10463
the known universe (not including the rest of the undiscovered universe) is so large that there is the possibility of anything. a 99% chance that there is a planet full of only pink elephants that can fly. our universe is so big that there is a 99% chance that there is another earth, an exact replica. the universe is so big that it may as well be infinite.
edit on 20-3-2013 by raj10463 because: (no reason given)
I like that
The universe is infinite is it not?
nothing in material world last forever.. there are nothing material that infinite..
"Space" is immaterial, it is the absence of matter, it is the definition of infinite, as far as we know it goes on forever no edges, no border, a lot of it may be completely empty because the matter of the big bang is still expanding.
But "space" is void, nothingness, it dosnt exist because it is nothing emptiness.
You can say that everything is finite but "nothing" as a place is infinite.
Actually space could be bubbling with zero point energy and nothing at all like you say here. Open a few books.
Zero point energy, dark matter/energy is theory, speculation
Still as far as we know for now space is still just a void
I read books, I also have a subscription to new scientist
Maybe you should read some too! And realise that these are still just theory/speculation
"could" is the operative word
Gravity is just a theory too, so is evolution. Forgive us for beliving reasonable theories to be facts. I seriously question how a skeptic gets out of bed, when matter is just a theory. Thankfully belief isn't a requisite for reality.