The other problem is that i dont think our current science is capable of solving or providing the answers to this question.
It just leads us around in circles with people proving 'yes there is int life' or 'no there isnt int life'.
We have to accept we are too primitive - even when we look around at what we have built and think we are pretty clever.
Do we understand how our own world works yet - weather systems/climate/pollution/population issues etc? Are we true scientific masters of our fates? Or is still a lot of what happens in our lives simple chance.
I agree with Park Avenue when he said we need more philosphical debate here - to go with the science.
One of the things i find too weird is that we humans seem to be such a huge step ahead of the next 'intelligent' creatures on this planet.
Ok we're +90% the same genetic makeup as some of the apes etc, but when you watch one of those documeteries and see the 'clever' ones smashing fruit with rocks, dont you just look around at your stereo's, computers, fridge's etc and think 'wow!' - that few % and we are worlds apart?
But even then when we shift our attention to the world around us we know so little, we haven't been here very long at all, and our ignorance about our own world and how all its systems work, IMHO means we have a long way to go yet.
So i dont think science will give you the answer, yet.
Still no harm in trying - but dont forget the philosphical in your calculations.
something along the lines of :
'how much life is on this one planet? When i look up at the sky on a clear night and with my naked eye see all those stars.......do i 'feel' completely alone?'
maybe not a great example - but i'm trying to convey an honest attempt at my own wonder at it all, the sheer scale of it all.
I dont like maths very much, but even i have to think on the probability of our planet being the only one
It just leads us around in circles with people proving 'yes there is int life' or 'no there isnt int life'.
We have to accept we are too primitive - even when we look around at what we have built and think we are pretty clever.
Do we understand how our own world works yet - weather systems/climate/pollution/population issues etc? Are we true scientific masters of our fates? Or is still a lot of what happens in our lives simple chance.
I agree with Park Avenue when he said we need more philosphical debate here - to go with the science.
One of the things i find too weird is that we humans seem to be such a huge step ahead of the next 'intelligent' creatures on this planet.
Ok we're +90% the same genetic makeup as some of the apes etc, but when you watch one of those documeteries and see the 'clever' ones smashing fruit with rocks, dont you just look around at your stereo's, computers, fridge's etc and think 'wow!' - that few % and we are worlds apart?
But even then when we shift our attention to the world around us we know so little, we haven't been here very long at all, and our ignorance about our own world and how all its systems work, IMHO means we have a long way to go yet.
So i dont think science will give you the answer, yet.
Still no harm in trying - but dont forget the philosphical in your calculations.
something along the lines of :
'how much life is on this one planet? When i look up at the sky on a clear night and with my naked eye see all those stars.......do i 'feel' completely alone?'
maybe not a great example - but i'm trying to convey an honest attempt at my own wonder at it all, the sheer scale of it all.
I dont like maths very much, but even i have to think on the probability of our planet being the only one
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