Re: Tranquil environment around Earth may be unusual
From: Abdul Ahad (aa_spaceagent_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 07/08/04
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Date: 7 Jul 2004 23:14:41 -0700
Tim Auton <tim.auton@uton.[groupSexWithoutTheY]> wrote in message news:<680pe057l7buqlupq9kgja0i5mf6h4rdsu@4ax.com>...
> MitchAlsup@aol.com (Mitch Alsup) wrote:
> >"Larry" <darksun@_SPAM_FREE_blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message news:<uRNGc.33587$eK2.9983@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>...
> >> For life to arise on Earth, an improbably large amount of things had to go
> >> our way, I guess this is yet another one of them.
> [snip]
> >Cancel the word 'improbably' and I will agree with you.
>
> I agree. I really don't think life is particularly special.
> Intelligent, technologically advanced life might be fairly rare (due
> either to initial conditions or the lifespan of technologically
> advanced species - we don't have the data to decide), but I fully
> expect us to find at least bacterial life on other bodies in our solar
> system. Why? Why not! So far almost every inhospitable corner of our
> planet we have explored has found unexpected lifeforms - the bottom of
> the ocean, beneath frozen lakes, in sealed caves...
>
> I rate those who say there is no life other than on Earth right up
> there with those who said the Earth was flat.
>
>
> Tim
Fair comment and I agree we should definitely keep an open mind.
I suppose its back to that fundamental question of whether life arose
on Earth from organic chemical compounds or whether it was "seeded"
here from another part of the cosmos via some kind of a time capsule
(such as a frozen comet).
If there was a show of hands as to which of these two possibilities
rings more 'true' in people's minds, I wonder if the result would be
50/50 or skewed one way or another...?
Abdul Ahad
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