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This statement has nothing to do with what I am saying.
To posit that rocks are quite possibly life forms takes the meaning out of what we mean when we say “life”.
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V’Ger wasn’t built by humanity it was built around a fictional Voyager spacecraft, who built it was never disclosed by the common fandom theory is that this might have been the progenitor idea to what eventually became the Borg in TNG.
Hmm, Memory Alpha does confirm your facts. I never realized that the remainder of V'Ger had been "constructed" by someone else. I had just assumed that it had ... spontaneously grown and developed out of the Voyager VI core built by humans. Where did this backstory come from? Certainly it was not treated in the original theatrical cut, where Kirk only finds its true nature toward the very end. I certainly don't remem…
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To posit that rocks are quite possibly life forms takes the meaning out of what we mean when we say “life”.
That's my point, and by extension, to say that life could take forms that we don't even understand, is flawed, because what life means is whatever definition we want to give it. Do we not understand our own definitions?
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Been too long since we've had a nice grainy photo of bigfoot.
Just yesterday I was wondering why — with the ubiquity of surveillance, phones, and body cams — we haven’t yet seen footage of good cops intervening to stop people like Tyre Nichols from being beaten to death.
Until more cops are more afraid of winding up like Chauvin and landing in an actual jail than they are afraid of other police, this will not change.
I've always found the framework we use to search for extraterrestrial life to be too based on our own experience. It could take countless forms, most of which we could never recognize or understand, and might be present everywhere without us knowing. I'm glad that more of the science community is pushing to broaden our horizons.
(In the same way we recognize language vs random noise even if we can't understand it.)
Question for people up to date with modern biochemistry: if there were extraterrestrial microbes on Earth right now, with totally unique chemical origins unrelated to proteins, nucleic acids, saccharides, etc., how likely would we be to notice them? And which analytic method would find them first? Is there a systemic search for this kind of crazy stuff, and where are the review papers for them? I don't know the keywo…
I've always found the framework we use to search for extraterrestrial life to be too based on our own experience. It could take countless forms, most of which we could never recognize or understand, and might be present everywhere without us knowing. I'm glad that more of the science community is pushing to broaden our horizons.
The thing is, people don't realize this argument fully. If you are to accept that life could take countless forms, most which we could never recognize or begin to understand, then it's quite possible rocks are lifeforms, as we don't recognize them as life now nor understand how they could be living. Since most people seemingly don't like the argument that rocks are living, then this shows that this argument (along wi…
I think we should stop looking and start sending extremophiles to everywhere life could possibly take hold.
That time was an honest mistake, but maybe we should stop trying to play God for a while. At least until we are advanced enough to create our own universe to experiment with.
I think we should stop looking and start sending extremophiles to everywhere life could possibly take hold.