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Author: | Chicodoodoo [ Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:05 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Life as we can't imagine it | ||||||||||||||||||
Humans are highly prejudiced. When we search for life outside of our planet, we look for biochemistry like ours. It's all we know apparently, and not only that, we've only known about our own biochemistry for a relatively short moment. Other chemical foundations for life may be more common than ours in the universe, but we have no knowledge of them. Our ignorance blinds us in our search for knowledge.
Well, yeah, but we have to start somewhere, and what little we know is about the best starting place we can choose.
So we have this massive and expensive SETI program that hardly makes sense searching for life as we in our limitless ignorance know it, and SETI never finds anything, but we turn a deaf ear to alien abductees who have direct experience with mantis beings? Are we insane? If you answer "No", please give detailed reasons for your response. |
Author: | Chicodoodoo [ Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:58 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Life as we can't imagine it | ||||||||||||||||||
"Life as we can't imagine it" also applies to our own environment. We use carbon dating to calculate the age of anything that is carbon-based. There is a whole set of assumptions behind the science, such as the ratios between isotopes of carbon, the rate of radioactive decay, etc. Most of these assumptions are derived from what we see today and are based on the assumption that the way things are today hasn't changed much through time. But we know the only constant is change! Things change, and here is a possible example of that:
So carbon dating may not be as accurate as we presume. And could it be possible that the source of the neutrons was not some distant supernova, but might have originated right here on Earth, perhaps from a nuclear war? The quote below is quite astounding, as it is easy to visualize a classic nuclear explosion as we know them from the 1940s and 50s:
But wait! Is that really an ancient verse from the Mahabharata? Perhaps not. Can you see why it is important to question everything, and dismiss nothing? How many of us do that? Almost none. Instead we cling to our certainty ( 1 2 ) that we know how the world really works. |
Author: | Chicodoodoo [ Sat Jul 11, 2015 9:36 pm ] | |||||||||
Post subject: | Re: Life as we can't imagine it | |||||||||
One of the reasons life is as we can't imagine it is because we are all idiots. Here's an example:
The implication is that science fiction is entirely fiction and thus has no connection to reality. However, science fiction often imagines possibilities that later become reality. Dismissing the possibility of bombs that kill life but leave structures intact as "science fiction" is the behavior of an idiot, especially when we have such bombs in our arsenals right now. And compared to most people, the author is far from being considered an idiot. That's how bad it is. |
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