The expanding universe may well turn out to be a feature we may never adequately appreciate.
That's the thing about being a tiny spec in time. We don't know whether to appreciate the expanding universe or dread it.
The expanding universe may well turn out to be a feature we may never adequately appreciate.
I don't know man, looks pretty realistic to me.
Logic says it's ............ OK, CM's a mod so I'll refrain from anymore ice cream situations.
Why is it always spoken about in present or future terms. Why not past? Universe is old as ****, son. Intelligent life could have came and went many times over.
Could be. Best guess is that the universe had a beginning though. If through natural means, evolution, that **** takes a ****ing long time.
For the record, I believe Churchmouse exists. There, I said it.
Logic says it's ............ OK, CM's a mod so I'll refrain from anymore ice cream situations.
If the universe had a beginning, if (big, gigantic if) macro evolution is a real thing, if matter that comprise planets had to come from exploding stars, if the universe is something like 45 billion years old and it took until about 14 billion year ago for enough of those stars to come into existence, live, die, and explode (over and over again), for enough of that matter to be produced, accumulated, and brought together to make up this solar system, I don't think there's enough time for life to have originated many many times. It seems to me it has barely had enough time to get to the point we know it once.
Well, the Solar System is about 4.5 Billion, so that only leaves you 10 Billion to get to the beginning of the Solar System.If the universe had a beginning, if (big, gigantic if) macro evolution is a real thing, if matter that comprise planets had to come from exploding stars, if the universe is something like 45 billion years old and it took until about 14 billion year ago for enough of those stars to come into existence, live, die, and explode (over and over again), for enough of that matter to be produced, accumulated, and brought together to make up this solar system, I don't think there's enough time for life to have originated many many times. It seems to me it has barely had enough time to get to the point we know it once.
I'm still wondering how CM managed to get what is obviously Ben & Jerry's rocky road through the dimension.
There's barely evidence of intelligent life here.
There's barely evidence of intelligent life here.
Well, the Solar System is about 4.5 Billion, so that only leaves you 10 Billion to get to the beginning of the Solar System.
They have fossils that they estimate to be 3.5-4.2 Billion years old. So life popped up pretty quickly once the Earth settled down and the oceans formed.
10 Billion years is a lot of time to possibly have life somewhere in the Universe. The basic building blocks all would have been around early on in the cycle.
Plus, life could have popped up and disappeared somewhere in the 4.5 Billion years our planet has been here. Look how many times we've had mass extinctions on this planet, and we haven't gotten to the point where the Sun is going to incinerate us before blowing itself to bits yet. If we do not some day find a way off of this planet to a new one, we will disappear forever and leave nary a trace that we ever existed.
Yes, but so are the chances of (intelligent) life developing.
On a related note, we often hear about challenges to religious people (Christians in particular) about what it would mean to their faith if it turns out there is other life out there. But what of the corollary?
Would atheists/non-believers feel any differently if it turns out humans are the only intelligent life and the entire universe was ours for discovery?
If you consider we really only took off in the last 65 million or so years ago, it is not long. Mammals haven't been the apex life form on this planet half of the time that the dinosaurs were yet.Possibly. But this requires that none of the events that happened here, none of the actions humans did to one another, would have happened (or their equivalents) else where. If we're "nothing special" here as some claim, then it seems reasonable that we're here about as fast as we could get here. I suppose mathematically it's possible other places might have had a few less zigs and zags in their timelines. But again, if we're nothing special, it seem reasonable to assume they did.