Comments on: Genetic Building Blocks Found In Meteorite

By: statePoet1775

statePoet1775 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:13:08 +0000

yammy,

I promise you we are alone in the Universe. If not, may the space aliens eat me first. Sweet dreams.

By: yammy

yammy — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:02:14 +0000

Yes I believe this… but who knows what else happened

Yesterday i had a dream where we , the Earth, was invaded from ufos and other type of lives. And I remember that it happened when it was reported to happen a rain of meteorites or some unusual activity in Alpha Centauri (news reported meteorites but they were ufos coming to the Earth). It is just a dream but you have to know that I don’t read about this subjects or read science fiction or whatever.
I do believe that intelligent life exist, my grandfather saw one and many friends too, and a teacher saw it along with a group of students… so this is real but the question is… how sure we are that they are not going to hurt us when coming here ? In my dreams they tried and we know that if us, people of the Earth, would discover other beings we would take advantage of them.. so I wouldnt like them to come here or I wouldnt send other meins saying “we are here”… the NASA should be more careful

They must be more intelligent as they already found the way to come here , so we should have a low profile I guess

By: Tom Bruno

Tom Bruno — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:52:24 +0000

Bruce Cobb,
May the force be with you!

By: poetSam

poetSam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:12:46 +0000

in the interest of honesty, I’ve change my nom de plume. Drat, I meant to keep that secret. Oh, well.

By: statePoet1775

statePoet1775 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:10:52 +0000

Jeff,

Good point about “13″, touche. Might be something to consider there too. I’ll not defend the Bible, it is quite capable of doing that itself.
I do recommend it to scientists and mathematicians. I think it no coincidence that many outstanding members of both classes were/are Jewish. To reconcile the paradoxes of the Bible stretches the mind and imagination.

Gary,

I find it an amazing coincidence that “42″ was picked. I was just pointing that out. But think of it, “What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?” Certainly it has meaning only to sentient beings and if there is a Creator, can He be excluded from the meaning of life?

By: Gary Gulrud

Gary Gulrud — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:37:04 +0000

poetSam:

Yes, I’m acquainted with Hebrew.

Newton and Maxwell, for example, have been described as students of scripture who dabbled in science.

I am not as sanguine that we dabblers in science can do philosophy, let alone religion, anything but violence. Sorry.

By: Jeff Alberts

Jeff Alberts — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:36 +0000

What’s the number for pizza?

Seriously, how is that profound? Is there somewhere in the babble that says multiply these two numbers and that’s the answer to everything? If you add them you get unlucky 13. That’s even more profound…

By: poetSam

poetSam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:30:31 +0000

Gary,

The number is 42 and is more profound than you might think.

The number for God in the Bible is ’7′.
The number for man in the Bible is ’6′

Go figure :)

By: Gary Gulrud

Gary Gulrud — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:24:15 +0000

Please, science is trouble enough for all who pass here. Let’s avoid the ‘deep questions’. The answer is 47, or was that 42?

By: poetSam

poetSam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:03:21 +0000

Jim Peden,

I apologize for my brutal rely. We all have feelings, sometimes I forget that in my zeal.

Steve

By: poetSam

poetSam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:17:26 +0000

or the color of my grandmother’s socks.

By: poetSam

poetSam — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:15:47 +0000

‘… for the Bible doesn’t even mention Alpha Centauri” Jim Peden

It also does not mention Pam’s favorite Irish beer. : (

By: Jim Peden

Jim Peden — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:58:50 +0000

Take a primitive atmosphere of methane and ammonia and stuff like that, submit it to an electrical discharge ( simulated atmospheric lightning ) overnight, and in the morning you’ll find your container with a brown goo containing various amino acids, the building blocks of protein.

Under the right conditions, “life” is just a matter of time when the conditions are right. Maybe we were “seeded” from outer space, maybe not. But somewhere in the universe time won out over religion, for the Bible doesn’t even mention Alpha Centauri.

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:01:02 +0000

Some say life is accidental, others say it is by a Creator. In a way, they are both wrong, and both right. What they are missing is the key element, beneath our very noses, an energy ubiquitous everywhere, and throughout the universe. Life energy, or what Eastern religions call prana, or chi, is real, can be concentrated, and has force. It can easily be seen by the naked eye by looking at a blue sky (because it shows up better, and is more vigorous in clear weather) and cupping both hands around your eyes (which focuses your vision, and shields the eyes from too much light so you don’t squint), focus your eyes at a distance of some 4 feet or so away – it helps to imagine a leaf or some physical object there. The rapidly moving white-yellow sparks spiraling and streaking about are one indication of that energy.

By: Alex Llewelyn

Alex Llewelyn — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:35:15 +0000

Oh god its emabarrasing really this creationist nonsense. I mean really Patrick Henry, while life is unlikely to arise, over the whole planet over BILLIONS of years it would require just one fluke reaction among countless trillions of molecules to occur on Earth for life to arise. And furthermore, by the anthropic priniciple, we can include the probabilities of life arising on any one of the trillions on planets in the universe via the anthropic principle. So we wouldn’t expect to see life reevolving in our lifetimes because that IS very improbable, but will happen after billions of years somewhere in the universe, and it need only happen once, (although it probably happened many times) for there to be life. Also we can only see the tiniest fraction you can imagine of the universe at just one time, so frankly we have no idea if there is life out there. Moreover, how do we know whether life is present on a plantet just by looking. We have only landed on a few bodies in outer space and only in our solar system. Sorry, your argument is bogus: we wouldn’t expect to see any other forms of life evolving because we having been looking for long enough in enough places.