It doesn't mean we can't get sick from it, I think we need to be very careful with extra terrestrial life.
Not to mention the minus 180 degrees Celsius.
Yeah, that tends to be much more harmful than any infection.
Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
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Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#42I'm still having a hard time contemplating the fact that WE exist. Sitting in front of our flat monitors with access to nearly all information which is stored all around planet Earth. Phones that connect us to billions of people. Brains large enough to hypothesize the creation of the universe. We can create rockets that send probes to other planets and even the edge of our solar system. We regularly travel around in…
Reminds me of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw (Only click if you're SURE you have 6 minutes to kill)
It looked promising to start with, but it is diminished by using Hollywood footage instead of real world events.
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It did take us a long time to get here though. Luckily things build on each other and we're good at patterns.
A relatively long time compared to our day to day lives. Is it possible for other organisms to perceive time differently than we do or is time pretty much fixed? Also, I'd be willing to bet that our sex drive had a decent role in evolution. Basically be strong, smart, and acquire stuff so we can put our dicks into pretty females.
Careful, you'll unleash the PC monster...
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfwY2TNehw (Only click if you're SURE you have 6 minutes to kill)
It looked promising to start with, but it is diminished by using Hollywood footage instead of real world events.
This is the image with the quote written on it. It's a picture of Earth taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft, Earth is that small dot in the top ray of sunlight. http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/skyimage/pbdwords.jpg
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#45I'm still having a hard time contemplating the fact that WE exist. Sitting in front of our flat monitors with access to nearly all information which is stored all around planet Earth. Phones that connect us to billions of people. Brains large enough to hypothesize the creation of the universe. We can create rockets that send probes to other planets and even the edge of our solar system. We regularly travel around in…
> WTF. [0] Did you forget a footnote? :)
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Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
A relatively long time compared to our day to day lives. Is it possible for other organisms to perceive time differently than we do or is time pretty much fixed? Also, I'd be willing to bet that our sex drive had a decent role in evolution. Basically be strong, smart, and acquire stuff so we can put our dicks into pretty females.
I think "pasquinelli" makes a good point about how male-normative this comment is, but also I think "pasquinelli" might be hell-banned.
It's also underestimating ideas: we don't just shape the world around us by having kids, to put it mildly. The most influential people of history may or may not have had kids; for the most part we don't know because it hardly matters to us.
I also think it's putting the horse before the cart. To some degree we don't even shape the world to have kids, we also have kids to shape the world. That is, for them to live, because we like to live. Life likes to live; it also likes to see other life thrive. That with similar genes preferably, sure, but also simply life in general.
Plus, from the perspective of genes, it makes zero difference if "my" genes or similar ones that "belong" to someone else are replicated, completely contrary to how we feel about that.... which to me is another indication that this view of life being this endless and futile struggle (harshly put, like a malignant cancer trapped in a finite universe), is more to do with cultural pathology or delusion than life itself.
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#47I feel like I've been trapped in the corner at a cocktail party by someone who insists on showing me bad drawings on a cocktail napkin. This guy's writing style is so annoying that I couldn't even make it to the end of the article. Attempting to parse this has left me feeling slightly dumber than 5 minutes ago.
If you think his writing is bad, you should hear him talk. Excruciatingly dumbed-down drivel.
If I heard this on the radio I could (somewhat) appreciate it as semi-comedic and semi-educational, but this chatty style really doesn't resonate with me in written format. Oh well, I'll know next time I see his byline.
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#48I'm still having a hard time contemplating the fact that WE exist. Sitting in front of our flat monitors with access to nearly all information which is stored all around planet Earth. Phones that connect us to billions of people. Brains large enough to hypothesize the creation of the universe. We can create rockets that send probes to other planets and even the edge of our solar system. We regularly travel around in…
> WTF. [0] Did you forget a footnote? :)
Not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but this is probably a reference to reddit's r/trees subreddit's way of noting how high the user is. It's a 0-10 scale, 0 being entirely sober. In this context he would be saying that it's mindblowing, despite not being high.
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#49Dirk Schultzs-Makuch and David Grinspoon said if one day methane eaters are found to exist on Titan,
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and if they swim around in very, very cold ethane lakes or oceans,
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and if those oceans don't have the pressure or weight of water,
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0.125, under stupidly generous assumptions.
Have you paid your complexity tax today?
Re: Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? Possibly, Say Scientists
#50Rarely have I wished so much for a downvote button on top-level posts.
Let's at least turn this into a teachable moment by drawing attention to Nick Bostrom's "great filter" argument.