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Aug 15, 2012 13:29:29 GMT -5
Post by Shark a' Pult on Aug 15, 2012 13:29:29 GMT -5
0 times 0 is still 0.
Also you took so long to respond I don't remember what we were talking about.
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Aug 15, 2012 14:15:59 GMT -5
Post by crocoduck on Aug 15, 2012 14:15:59 GMT -5
I totally forgot about this thread,
and lol you're seriously saying there's 0 chance of life outside of earth?
Hokay.
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Aug 15, 2012 14:24:41 GMT -5
Post by Shark a' Pult on Aug 15, 2012 14:24:41 GMT -5
I didn't say that.
I said if you compare what we determine to be life, with what we know of the universe already, you have to start at 0. It's all you can logically go by to start.
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Aug 15, 2012 14:41:34 GMT -5
Post by crocoduck on Aug 15, 2012 14:41:34 GMT -5
The chances of life as we know it existing on other planets automatically goes up past 0 once we find other planets with the same conditions for life that we have.
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Aug 15, 2012 19:43:29 GMT -5
Post by Shark a' Pult on Aug 15, 2012 19:43:29 GMT -5
That's not true.
That just means we've found planets which can support life on earth.
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Aug 15, 2012 21:15:15 GMT -5
Post by Hitotsumami on Aug 15, 2012 21:15:15 GMT -5
Just curious, how do you think life might have come about on earth, Shark?
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Aug 15, 2012 22:38:47 GMT -5
Post by Shark a' Pult on Aug 15, 2012 22:38:47 GMT -5
I used to think something like a meteor carrying amino acids, plonked down in the oceans of new earth. Ergo, that led to my belief that life could naturally exist elsewhere.
Now though after going through four years of biology, chemistry, and some physics, I'm not so sure anymore. There's a lot to suggest that life may be truly unique to earth, the uncertainty of it neither supporting nor disproving this.
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Aug 19, 2012 21:39:13 GMT -5
Post by crocoduck on Aug 19, 2012 21:39:13 GMT -5
There's a lot of different theories. There's the common one, used by those that haven't looked much into abiogenesis, that uses Muller's (not sure on that spelling) experiment as support, saying that a freak chance of weather created amino acids and such. But we can't think of any situation that would cause amino acids to suddenly replicate and behave the way DNA does.
I've only read some things written by richard dawkins and the a few articles here and there. I read an interesting article about how life may actually have started because the primordial soup was frozen at the poles of the earth. (If you're interested, i can explain further).
The point is, we really haven't the faintest idea. Abiogenesis is super interesting, but it'll be a very very long time until we can even make a good stab at what happened, much less know for certain.
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Aug 19, 2012 23:07:26 GMT -5
Post by Shark a' Pult on Aug 19, 2012 23:07:26 GMT -5
Well I actually do know for certain, but I'm not allowed to say.
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