A deep thought regarding life out there

[Steve A]

Sirkit:

Methane oxide = CO2 + H2O.

Fire is just a chemical reaction that has a temporary plasma phase that usually emits visible light. On earth it is usually an oxidation reaction. In a methane atmosphere, heat a rock made from potassium nitrate and watch it burn.

Steve

[Marty Ward]

Lucanos,
Sorry I didn't elaborate more. I meant that given the large number of galaxies there are it is almost certain that there are life forms similiar to ours, life forms that we are totally incapable of recognizing, and every possible combination in between.
There is also probably a 50 - 50 chance that the first life form that comes in contact with us will be one we will not obviously recognize. If it happens that we meet another life form I hope we do recognize it, we may only get one chance.

[This message has been edited by Marty Ward (edited 04 April 2001).]

[Lucanos]

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Originally posted by Marty Ward:
Lucanos,
Sorry I didn't elaborate more. I meant that given the large number of galaxies there are it is almost certain that there are life forms similiar to ours, life forms that we are totally incapable of recognizing, and every possible combination in between.
There is also probably a 50 - 50 chance that the first life form that comes in contact with us will be one we will not obviously recognize. If it happens that we meet another life form I hope we do recognize it, we may only get one chance.

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I totaly agree (almost). I think the chance of recognition is smallar than 50%, though. More like 1% or so.

The small insect doesn't know it's crawling on a more intelligent lifeform when it's crawling on a human, as the humans don't know they're walking on a more evolved lifeform. They don't recognize the planets as alive.

Maybe they are alive? What do we know? Really?

If you ask me - everything that is moving is alive - while saying this I might add: nothing is actually still.

[Aussie Gamer]

More on that thought of what's alive and what's not.
Does a insect think that a tree is alive, I mean that it does not really change much over the life of an insect.
So we humans live 100 years and who's to say that the earth is alive and very slow compared to us. Say it takes 10 million years for it to get around to scratch that itch!

[Nitram Draw]

I've always wondered what a dog saw. What is it, 7 dog years to 1 human year. Is everything on fastforward for them

[CaptSpoogy]

The dog year thing is just an approximation because a dog's life is realitively short compared to ours, so when we say a dog is old (like around 12), we just compare him to a old person (like 84) - so we kind of understand that the dog is really old (because normally 12 years is nothing to us).

[Suicide Junkie]

Basically the 7:1 ratio just converts the labels "old", "teenage", "baby" etc.

So I'd expect most working dogs to retire before age 10 ( 7x10 = 70 years for a human)