271–279 of 279 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except we don’t actually know the real ranges of values here, so our actual level of uncertainty is still infinite.
If your level of uncertainty is infinite then you're suggesting that abiogenesis could be happening every day in your back yard. I think you might admit we're a little more certain than that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except we don’t actually know the real ranges of values here, so our actual level of uncertainty is still infinite.
If your level of uncertainty is infinite then you're suggesting that abiogenesis could be happening every day in your back yard. I think you might admit we're a little more certain than that.
Life, once established, is about competition for niche resources. Established life would kick the polypeptides out of a protocell quite easily (with certainty > 99%).
Protocells could be evolving right now at vents in the ocean, with zero of them managing to escape their birthplace due to being outcompeted by things with fully developed organelles.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't the most common scientific theory about the origin of the Moon that a big body collided with Earth? How can it be science fiction if most scientists currently believe this?
This guy thinks he's smarter than all those scientists. Consider his opinion accordingly.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This guy thinks he's smarter than all those scientists. Consider his opinion accordingly.
If I'm so dumb then it should be easy to answer my question then.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant-impact_hypothesis#Possib...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your level of uncertainty is infinite then you're suggesting that abiogenesis could be happening every day in your back yard. I think you might admit we're a little more certain than that.
Really? Life, once established, is about competition for niche resources. Established life would kick the polypeptides out of a protocell quite easily (with certainty > 99%). Protocells could be evolving right now at vents in the ocean, with zero of them managing to escape their birthplace due to being outcompeted by things with fully developed organelles.
If you're willing to concede that in fact, that doesn't happen, then you're putting a limit on that parameter, just like the paper did.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Astrophysicsts would also call these "metals" (anything heavier than helium) so don't read too much into it. :D https://sentinelmission.org/astrophysics-glossary/metallicit...
Thank you, that does make me feel at the same time better as an individual and sadder about my expectations for the astrophysicists’ ability to draw anything resembling reasonable conclusions about the makeup of the celestial bodies.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I'm so dumb then it should be easy to answer my question then.
Have you spent any time looking for answers? Wikipedia suggests Theia started on a similar orbit to proto-Earth. [0] In that case, a collision would have left the combined object on a similar orbit to both initial bodies. I actually didn't know this before, but found it in about 3 clicks from googling "theia impact earth orbit". I can't find a really handy source for it, but I also know from various sources that grav…
Let me give you a pro life tip. When someone comes up with an extraordinarily complicated scenario or hypothesis and it can’t answer a very simple straightforward question, it most certainly means that the the hypothesis is wrong.
It’s all science fiction.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you spent any time looking for answers? Wikipedia suggests Theia started on a similar orbit to proto-Earth. [0] In that case, a collision would have left the combined object on a similar orbit to both initial bodies. I actually didn't know this before, but found it in about 3 clicks from googling "theia impact earth orbit". I can't find a really handy source for it, but I also know from various sources that grav…
Nothing you posted answers the very basic question I had. Even the Wikipedia article says that the hypothesis doesn’t have any real answers because of all the inconsistencies. Let me give you a pro life tip. When someone comes up with an extraordinarily complicated scenario or hypothesis and it can’t answer a very simple straightforward question, it most certainly means that the the hypothesis is wrong. It’s all scie…
Sure, there are still questions. But the questions for all the other explanations of the Moon's origin at even bigger. You can be skeptical, but until you have a better theory that accounts for all the evidence, you don't get to dismiss it as "science fiction". Not if you want to be taken seriously anyway.
Here's a life pro tip: The correct guideline for a theory is "as simple as possible and no simpler. The real world is complicated. Complicated things happen all the time.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not against piracy, and I love Anna's Archive... but publicly linking directly to a pirate source for something like this seems wrong. Could've just linked the Wikipedia page and let people acquire however they prefer. Anyway, sounds interesting, gunna add that to my list
It's 45 years old and the author is deceased. I assume you would be untroubled by a link to a copy of Macbeth . Where do you draw the line?