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I can't remember who first recommended "Little Heathens" by Mildred Armstrong Kalish to me. But to that mystery person--thanks!
Right up my alley--a memoir, in this case about growing up in Iowa during the Great Depression.
Kalish begins by recording the big mystery of her childhood--her father was banished from the family when she was five. She never hears from him again. She never learns why he went away.
Yet what I recall of her story isn't a sense of sadness, or of dismay at the conspicuousness of having a divorce in the family. What I recall is that despite their lack of money and the absence of a father, Mildred considered her childhood to be full of interest and energy.
She details food, animals, school, swear words, bathroom behavior, and other aspects of life that were most interesting to children. She conveys the sense that I hear in my own parents' recollections of that time, a sense of one's own efforts being important to the family's economy, and further, a sense that there was no shame in being poor at a time when just about everyone was poor.
I wouldn't say that Kalish romanticizes that time, but she conveys how much she values that she grew up on a farm where day after day something interesting happened and where she learned to work hard. That background served her well when she set out on her own.
Kalish notes that it could be hard to be a child in a home such as her grandparents', where fun took a far back seat to work. She doesn't often seem to feel sorry for herself, but I was deeply struck by this passage that concludes the chapter on town school, "At home I couldn't do anything right; at school I seemed to do everything right. So, school is where I wanted to be."
I've recommended this book to many friends as a quick read that connected with me because Kalish's young life in Iowa was so similar to that of my parents' childhood in Nebraska. I think it would make for a good book group selection because plenty of serious themes arise even in stories of a happy childhood--fairness, whether we are loved, and how we find our place in the world.
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Seems like this would be a great book for an inter-generational discussion.
Seems like this would be a great book for an inter-generational discussion.


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Seems like this is one bolt in an entire skyscraper, yeah? A "real" application won't hold up with this bolt alone, but it's a necessary step towards the final goal of proper OpenGL 3.0 support.
It's good that people are working on this, but this commit alone more than likely does not open up any new application support: apps writing to GL 2.1 won't use instanced drawing anyway, and apps writing to GL 3.0 or 3.1 will probably use other features of GL that Mesa doesn't yet support. So I dare say this isn't really newsworthy, as nice as it is.
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This is a knock-off of The Faceless Watch offered by Hammacher-Schlemmer for $130. The poor electroplating on the band is the biggest problem for me. The band already shows scuff marks from normal use in an office where the watch is exposed to a computer wrist pad and Formica desktop - not exactly a hostile environment for a timepiece. The links have a lot of "play" in them, no doubt due to the liberal mechanical tolerances allowed in the manufacturing process. The clasp was initially hard to disengage, but has loosened over time. The 1/2" tall LEDs are crisp and clear, but hard to read in direct sunlight. The O.co Details claim the bracelet is titanium...don't think so at this price. But wrapped around your wrist, it does feel hefty and looks masculine. The LEDs embedded in the dark steel band makes it unique and somewhat retro when lit up. It's already proven itself to be a great conversation starter. The adage "you get what you pay for" still applies here. But for $**, it's an OK deal.
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Nice concept but the watch was too heavy.
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I bought 3 of them they looked cool but, mine broke in less than 24 hrs, my wifes (she only wore it once, (a few hrs.) It also quit, third one lasted less than a week,
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Question is, What about global warning on these tens of billions of earth-like planets in the Milky Way?
this result for discover Mars from all scientists`s effort on our planet
we can thanks NASA
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If there advanced civilizations out there they call us if they want to. If they do not want to it is waste of time trying to contact them.
A foolish statement if you consider the distances involved. 1,000 light-years means that they noticed mankind 2,000 years ago (thousand year journey earth-to-alien), considered us worth contacting, so sent out a signal that would only reach us now (thousand year journey alien-to-earth). And as pointed out, the distances involved on a galactic scale are small.
Can you define what you mean by "a waste of time"?
IMHO, gaining new knowledge is never a waste of time.
The scientist do very well for all mankind and the result near future of physics time
30,000 habitable worlds within 1,000 light-years...
When "artificial intelligence" is sufficiently advanced as to autonomously scale whole global economies, undertake fundamental research, explore, communicate, adapt and observe, we can surely "colonise" the majority of these worlds.
Then, at least, our computer-based descendants will at some time observe the final communication from humanity (albeit with a latency of up to 1,000 years).
And mankind may at least send a ripple of its technology across the galaxy - with advancing power and understanding of physics - to at least leave some legacy of earth...
It's definitely technically feasible to send a manned mission to Mars, using nuclear propulsion. NASA has had viable plans in its desk drawers for many years. What is needed is indeed the political will to take the risk and spend the money, but in the current budget climate, it does indeed seem a long way off.
A one way mission to Mars would actually be relatively cheap.
The real cost is in that astronauts will require heavy lead radiation shielding, large quantities of food, and that all of this will not only have to land on Mars - enough fuel is needed, along with the requisite infrastructure, to relaunch from the Martian surface, achieve escape velocity and accelerate for a return to Earth in a reasonable amount of time.
If we leave out the second launch stage (send astronauts willing to die on Mars), it all becomes more tenable.
There are thousands of qualified personnel happy to volunteer for a suicide man/ women on Mars mission, but it might not inspire the public in quite the same way...
First: the heavy lead shielding is hardly necessary, especially if you intend the mission to be suicidal.
Second: there are viable plans, on the cheap using today's technology, to land on Mars and explore around for two years, and return for under 100 billion dollars. The hyper-expensive plans always involve sending some space-cruiser that has to be built in low-earth orbit, and all kinds of foolish and unnecessary additions.
Suicide isn't science! You freely expend machines not people!
100 billion dollars is what mankind happily waste on the every-4-years pissing contest named the Olympics.
Sadly, trying to explore the solar system, finding out if we alone in the Universe, and doing reconnaissance of places for mankind to live if Earth is ever unlucky enough to get hit by a major asteroid is less important to most people than the Olympics.
At least we will, when we go extinct, know who was the best human at syncronized swimming and pole jump each year, even if we never found out the big questions of life. Also, we will be buried in our exquisite designer brand clothes.
As man gazes out into the empty eternities of space, the feelings reflected back have always been the same. Horror, hope, wonder, and shame. Horror at the infinite minutia of our existence and hope for our infinite possibilites. Wonder at the endless bounds and unreachable corners of an ever expanding eternity, and shame for the knowledge we seek to hide, we are alone. The understanding that, alone and left to our own path, we will squander the splendor of our being for a bowl of porridge or mash. Man's greatest shame.
Humans are alone, or just as terrifying, the peak of intelligent life. Rather than face the reality of my unavoidable insignigficance, I hear the call of an eternal soul, and a being who cares deeply for its welfare . If I can find within myself a divine spark of eternity equivalent to the endless cosmos, then I can harbor hope for an eternal existance. If I can't, then the irrelevant void we inhabit can be filled with whatever cosmic goop exists without consequence.
How long before we can send a decent 3D-printer to Mars and start builing what we need right up there?
Why not spend more time and resources finding solutions to human problems on earth . What difference will it make if it is found that some form of life existed on mars billions of years ago?
What difference will it make? We won't know until we know. But had there not been curious people doing things more prosaic minds failed to see any value in we'd likely all be sitting in mud-floored huts, sick and with empty stomachs.
It shocks me that after all the unexpected inventions and discoveries that pure, curiosity driven science has given us (that have vastly improved all our lives) there are still those questioning its value.
There are 7 billion of us. We can do more than one thing at a time. Cut military budgets and use those resources to fix some problems. But keep your hands off of science!
Why not? Because the absence of a Mars mission would make the problems to which you vaguely refer not one ioata more solvable, while the investigation of our neighborhood adds considerably more to our capabilities than sitting on our collective posterior getting depressed about our condition. Practicing difficult things makes humans more capable, not less. Furthermore, the cost of planetary investigation is a minuscule drop in the bucket compared to everything else on which we spend money, blood, resources, and aspirations--with considerable more return than many or most of those.
What a non sequitor!! Who would eat better if we NEVER HAD DONE ANYTHING in space!! In fact,hundreds of millions who are eating adequately now would be starving or dead given that the whole technological revolution which has propelled humanity to unprecedented levels of wealth and well being including your cell phone and I-pad wouldn't exist without the space programs!! Stop displaying your profound ignorance of the modern world!
Science has done some great things for people, but it fails the rest of life on this planet. Rapid deforestation in the Amazon and halting evolution of other life on this planet so we can build more McDonalds proves this. How about having science solve that dilema? If we were still sitting in mud-floored huts, sick and with empty stomachs, maybe life on this planet could actually evolve and we would realize that there really isn't that much of a difference between the two ways of life in an economy like this, science or no science.
I am willing to lose my sweet batuti by challenging the concept of life form existence out side the earth.
Does life have to have parameters that our earth has? Of course not! I can guarantee that there are life forms who may find earth conditions hostile to them. Conditions on their planet may be hostile to us.
So, scientists should think beyond their scientific knowledge.
Best wishes
Kishore Nair from Mumbai
One of the astounding conclusions of modern physics is that the laws of physics operate in the same way (virtually) everywhere throughout the Universe: We see little to no evidence, no matter what direction we look, that things operate any differently from here to there.
Because of this, we know, too, that the chemistry which works inside laboratory test tubes, whether in Miller's famous experiment or in any modern biology class, also works substantially the same way on the surface of distant planets orbiting their stars in the "Goldilocks Zone" as it does here.
With all this in mind, it is a statistical certainty that we are not alone as the only life in all the Universe. The same physical, chemical and biological process which have operated here to bring about our evolution (and this is as certain as the Sun, the Moon and the Stars, dudes) operate also on similarly situated worlds in the heavens above. There is zero reason to believe that life has not already evolved elsewhere in our galaxy, let alone the seemingly infinite number of galaxies which we can already see elsewhere in the Universe.
The only real issue is, what kind of life surrounds us? The likelihood is, however, based on the evolution of life here on the Earth, that the overweening mass of life which surrounds us in neighboring star systems is anything but sentient, let alone intelligent. The number of intelligent civilizations alive today and capable of at least considering interstellar travel in all the Milky Way Galaxy is likely less than 10,000. Finding any one of them by pointing your telescope at the next visible star is much less likely than winning a million in the lottery !
Finally, we should give great pause to Stephen Hawking's' admonition that, based on our own history, we might be incurring the unwanted attentions of much more technologically advanced civilizations, which might sooner eat us for lunch or make slavish pets out of us than deign to hold a "conversation" with such backward types! The Arawak of the Caribbean and many other native North American tribes certainly would have (or would have had, had they survived) much to say about this.
Perhaps, it's all just well and good that we haven't been contacted so far ! But contacted, we shall eventually be, that's certain. One wonders whether, when we're finally contacted, we'll have anything intelligent to say or, rather, whether we would have already gone the way of the dinosaur or the dodo, by the time our eventual interlocutors get here !?
We have always to remember that it is not technology that hinders contact with other intelligent life forms, if they do indeed exist, unless of course they have overcome the limitations of travel/communication over space/time distances controlled by planetary biological life spans. So your argument that physics/chemistry is the same everywhere favors other intelligent life but also means that we will not be sharing lunch (in any capacity) aboard Starship Enterprise. Sorry Stephen.
Remember that in over 3 billion years of life on earth, it is only in the past 2 million years or so that we have had primates approaching our technological capacities (in the sense of forming societies, constructing tools, trading, forming institutions, etc).
Hell, it's something of a fortunate coincidence that the renaissance, discovery of the Americas, Scottish enlightenment, industrial revolution and globalisation happened.
With a little more religious suppression, without the black death or with a few badly timed wars, we could so easily be laboring as illiterate peasants on fields right now.
And with only a marginally worse political context during the development of nuclear and biological weapons (say, if WWII had been delayed by 10 years and Hitler had his hands on this stuff), intelligent life could plausibly have been extinguished.
Yes, universe wide uniformity of chemistry and biological potential means that there is probably organic life - similar to what we observe - on countless other planets within 1,000 light years of our own.
There isn't really a convincing case yet, however, that there would be a high density (even as high as 10,000 in the Milky Way) of "intelligent" or technologically advanced life. It wouldn't be all that surprising if we're one of only a couple of such species existing in our galaxy right now (though who knows for how long we'll endure...).
Species do come and go; ours will be no exception to this rule. The question is only whether we shall have the great good fortune of locating another such intelligent species before we (or they) meet the same fate and whether, when we do, the two will benefit from the contact mutually or, in the alterative, one or both will suffer an untimely demise as the result of it.
Personally, I like to think of such contacts, however rare and unlikely, only in the positive.
Not in disagreement with your first point about life on Earth, however with regard to your somewhat depressing nature of your end:
Statistically, yes there is probably some microbial goo within a thousand light years. As far as intelligent species go: I would say that once a species breaks through a threshold of development (to not kill eachother in spectacular ways) and has reached out and colonized other planets, they have a much greater durability and much greater potential to inhabit larger chunks of space. Thus i would reckon that most galactic life that breaks this threshold will likely remain around, rather than die due to any sort of local event (supernova, planetary problems...).
Your 10,000 civilization estimate is surely way, way too high. Quite possibly we are alone in terms of intelligent life in this Galaxy at least. It took four billion years of evolution to arrive at us! And our prospects of long enduring ( 100,000 years or more!) are nil. Our world was never devastated by common astronomic events like black hole envelopment or supernova incineration! We are freaks of nature big time! Extra terrestrial bacteria should be discoverable in the next few centuries and that would be huge enough.
I disagree that we could be alone, even if 10,000 is high. Long enduring prospects if you look at our history is poor, but looking forward is decent. Humanity has survived for thousands of years, there is no real reason we can't make it forward. "Common" astronomic events such as supernova's happen about once per year in the whole galaxy. Which would suggest that most every star system would be spared for a great deal of time, much like ours. Black hole envelopment goes the same way, or the galaxy wouldn't exist.
Some species die out because they can't adapt or they get hunted into extinction. Humans are the only species to systematically kill off massive amounts of species and expedite this process of natural extinction further through their "science" and "development."
What if there are another earth out there, what if there are human like us, possibly another slavery or colonization, maybe extinction.
What if there were only females there are were looking for men for sex? - This was something that I fantasized on when I was 18 years old!
All that the good aliens of Star Trek really think about is SEX. I suspect that the opposite is true!
I was talking about 18 year old's fantasy and NOT a 70 year old man's!!!!
A layman can only watch as the astrophysicists quarrel among themselves.The concept of extraterrestrial life is so incredibly arcane that even the best among the "experts" is extrapolating from a prior extrapolation. The famous Drake Equation is based largely on "If we assume that . . . ." and then launches itself into the wild blue. The Equation always reminded me of a touch-typist who started with her hands one key too far to the left or right -- everything follows in logical, consistent order but what results is, nonetheless,gibberish.
Fermi, of course, asked the $64 question when he wondered that, given the immense age of the universe relative to the earth, if there are aliens then why haven't they shown up yet? No one has a good answer to that one --so far.
A lot of us, of course, ponder why the earth doesn't receive ET's equivalent of "I Love Lucy" (or, better, "My Favorite Martian") since the electromagnetic spectrum seems to be the same everywhere and, in addition, is probably the only practical way to communicate over vast distances (unless we can find a practical way to utilize Bell's Theorem -- and if we do, as regards all standard models, communicating with aliens will be the least of our problems.)
Then there is another question -- would we even recognize Life as Life when, in fact, we can not really provide an adequate definition of what Life actually is?
The theological and spiritual effect of finding out "We are not alone" would be immense -- but probably lead nowhere after the first impact. After all, we are not likely to learn at the foot of the Alpha Centaurians, our nearest neighbor, unless we exceed the speed of light. And, good luck with that.
As regards to interplanetary exploration, space exploration and all that, I, for one, was skeptical from the day the first Sputnik was launched. This sort of thing is valuable beyond measure when applied to we Earthlings (satellite communications, navigation, reconaisance, etc.) but after that it all seems like a horribly expensive way to satisfy one's idle curiosity. Somewhere along the line we probably should have crafted a robot that screeched "Danger, Will Robinson -- you are in the process of bankrupting yourself!" Lost in space, sure, but loused up by space seems a different matter altogether.
Want to explore space? Become a Buddhist. It's a good way to get insight into eternity and the meaning of life without having to leave your living room, let alone Cape Kennedy. I am willing to bet that the spiritual universe within each soul is a lot more mysterious and rewarding to explore than whatever it is they're having for dinner right now while circling Beetlegeuse.
Yea, true regarding spiritual universe is a lot more mysterious. But remember, those spiritual thing/fantasy does not accord with reality. Think whatever you like, without putting it into reality, those are day dreamers.
Missing the point. Whether it is the Buddha, Julian of Norwich or the holy men and women of Safed, all are emphatic that what they experienced IS reality. Human beings, after all, evolved to find nuts, berries and small edible mammals -- not to perceive Reality face-to-face.
How do you distinguish between two realities?
I've noticed this is dated 4th August 2012. Perhaps this is an extra-terrestrial article!
The print edition probably is published on the 4th.
If planets are as common as it seems, and inhabitable planets not quite rare,given the numbers involved, what is strange is that nobody has come to pay a visit as yet.
Maybe that proves that for any being of reasonable intelligence, we are the most boring and disagreeable company around.
You really need to separete things. Extraterrestial life does not mean complex life (organisms). Complex life does not mean intelligent life. Intelligent life does not meant space travel. Space travel does not mean interstellar travel.
Or maybe there are many civilizations in our own galaxy and interstellar travel is common but the distances are so vast, and our nearest neighbor so far away that the laws of physics preclude any meeting.
Imagine five ants nests randomly placed somewhere on the North American continent. We'd be pretty amazed if ants from these nests ever meet each other.
Space is big.
Agreed with all your assertions, but add that (as Draghignazzo says) space is big. Really big. And if you only include our galaxy, the statistics would suggest that there is most certainly not only complex life, but intelligent, space faring life out there.
How can you use statistics if we only know of ONE case of life in the Universe. In other words, there is a possibility we are unique because we do not understand what makes life. We can use statistics for many things, statistics tell us if that if wait billions of years (way longer than the age of the universe) I can walk throught a wall ... it doesn't mean is going to happen.
We use statistics based on how we believe life may have come about. If the conditions are right for life, eventually it could happen. So if you consider all the planets that might have the right conditions, which may be many billions just in our galaxy, there is a fair chance that they have had, do have, or could have life on them.
In physics, if something is not strictly impossible by some conservation law (energy/momentum) it WILL happen, it is only a matter of frequency. Yes, there is a tiny, but non-zero possibility that all of your electrons and atoms will line up in such a way that you could pass through an otherwise solid wall. If you calculate how small that is, you might see that the number of years you have to wait might be closer to 10^billion, but it's still non-zero.
Also, though a matter of linguistics, we know of one case of a planet producing life. There are millions, if not billions of species on this planet, only finding one on another world would be tremendously exciting.
The possiblity that Earth is the only place where life as we define it arose is essentially zero. It may be that we're the only planet with multicelluar life currently in our galaxy, though I think that is also unlikely.
What is likely is that intelligent, space travel capable life is probably exceptionally rare though it wouldn't surprise me if there were a few currently in the Milky Way (currently +/- say 5 million years). The dinosaurs/birds could have become intelligent like us instead of mammals 15-20 million years ago had they not been wiped out so thoroughly.
... you said it, in physics. Biology is way much more complex and missunderstood than physics. Given the numbers there are no doubt planets similar to Earth and certainly there is a chance some of them could have life ... but from that statement to essentially an assurance that there is extraterristial life is a strecth to say the least. We simply do not know what spontaneously makes life even if we can guess some of the requirements. Life could be an extremely rare event, sort of like walking pass a wall, that the age of the universe is not enought to duplicate.
Physics is a good analogy. Biology is not 'way more complex' but follows more chance-assertions, unless you just assume Almighty-God did it all, in which case this whole discussion is useless. We don't know what spontaneously makes life, but we can make some educated guesses. Those guesses all call for a certain laundry list of requirements. That gives you a certain number of viable planets/handful of moons. But this number is so astronomically big that it is so mindnumbing to assert that we are the only life in the galaxy. And recall that billions of stars in our galaxy, but also billions of galaxies. It is almost ignorant to assert that in the absolute vastness of space, we are the only intelligent race out there.
The point is that the number that 'could' have life are so HUGE, absolutely HUGE, that to say NONE of them could have life is... ignorant? Perhaps proud? Proud because that makes humanity the only really important species in the whole universe, which is just narrow to me.
Is the age of the Universe not enough? about two ages? three? when would you say enough time has passed to create a SECOND form of life among all the planets circling all the stars in all the galaxies in the universe?
I don't know why James Webb got green-lighted. It's simply incremental over Hubble. Been there, done that. TPF would be looking for the signals of extra-terrestrial life. It would change our whole view of the universe. I guess getting funding for a squeal to a success is easier than getting funding for a new franchise, even at NASA.
Prior to Kepler it was unclear whether there's much to look at.
In fact, it may be a good thing that TPF was postponed, since people may look at Kepler's data and go back to the drawing board to fine-tune what they want exactly.
Besides, it is quite likely that scientists will have better techniques on a telescope designed a bit later.
Has NASA tried Kickstarter for its Terrestrial Planet Finder?
I know that this suggestion was a bit tongue in cheek, but...why doesn't NASA do something similar?
It does something similar, you can easily donate to NASA.
Trouble is, to pull something like this off NASA needs numbers three orders of magnitude higher than what Kickstarter managed to pull so far.
I was initially being flippant but yeah, I agree, a Kickstarter-esque program might work. Is it absurd to estimate 100 million Earthlings would each donate $10 (or 10 million donate $100) for a chance to find life, or even other intelligent life, in our lifetime?
Its very possible I'm grossly underestimating the cost of a TPF, but the fundraiser would at least be a head start before we tax the Tea Party for the rest.
What about an auction for naming rights of these planets? (I assume the we won't know the locals' names for these places for some time.)
It's too bad we're nowhere near having the capability to physically explore any of them -- either by manned or unmanned missions. Our farthest unmanned objects, Voyager I and II, only recently made it beyond our own Solar System (depending on how you define it); we last put a human being on the moon ~40 years ago (let alone Mars, which NASA can only discuss in terms of far-off planning). We made such astounding progress in space exploration in the first few decades of the Cold War; it feels like we've been stalled out ever since. I don't really mourn the loss of the shuttle--it was a glorified space truck, designed for LEO runs; I mourn the loss of a national vision. We don't have one.
A Depressed Space Exploration Advocate
... I don't think you would find any disagreements, nobody mourns the loss of the shuttle but the lack of a post-shuttle vision towards space exploration. NASA annual budget of around 18 billion is incredibly modest compared to other items, including subsidies, tax breaks, and not to mention military defense approaching 1 trillion.
The problem was that we started exploring space for political reasons before it was really practical to do so. Eventually, as technology progresses, physically exploring space will become economically viable. That's when things will actually take off. Right now it's all academic.
I think that the main issue you have with current space exploration is that the excitement of orbital space stations and automated missions worn off quickly.
Voyager pictures were famous. But nobody seems to remember either Sojourner or Galileo missions of the 90es, which were a lot more successful. Neither ISS generates any news similar to ant colonies on Shuttle.
Space exploration will never be economically viable without "academic" exploration first. In order to get to the point in which you can build a Mars colony or do Moon mining, you need alot of gradual technical and scientific knowledge. So is hard to imagining space ever paying off directly, however there are many spin-offs from space exploration.
But now we have technology which is far and beyond anything that we could have dreamt of in 1970 and probably the least useful thing to put in space is a human.
Don't give up, pal. Try some conspiratorial line of inquiry instead, like believing TE staff was arm-twisted by reptilian CIA operatives into publishing this article, in order to prepare us for the coming of Disclosure. I know, it sucks, but it is better than depression.
Alternatively, we can hope the Chinese haven't been stuffed out by decades of pathological consumerism and financial Saturnalia.
Probably the most useful thing to put in space is a human. The purpose of space exploration isn't merely scientific: it's also to push the boundaries of human experience. To--pardon the phrase--boldly go where no one has gone before. The national spirit is inflamed by heroes going into space; not by the conduct of intrasolar spectrometry or extraterrestrial dust sampling, however scientifically valuable that might be.
In other words, the inventors need to go up there right with their inventions. If, beneath those nobler ideals, we want to acknowledge the role that crasser, probably more powerful motivations play in driving us skyward (war, money, religion--this is the deGrasse view), that's fine. Because, either way, it takes human beings to make space matter. And space doesn't matter right now--a state of affairs we're all worse off for, scientists and intrepid explorers and everyday earthbound citizens alike.
A Still Depressed Space Exploration Advocate
Hard to imagine space ever paying off directly? Please! As techonology progresses, it will likely be economically viable to at least mine the resources from our solar system. Of course that won't happen for awhile. We'll need much smarter, more autonomous computers and cheaper and better robotics. Better technology will eventualy make create cheaper and more efficient ways to launch space craft, but those probably won't come about for centuries. Science and technology have quite a ways to go first.
As technology progresses further, colonists may settle other planets in our solar system, similar to the pilgrams. As long as a planet has water, like some moons of Saturn, then it should be possible grow food and create a self-sustaining colony.
I think you failed to read what I clearly stated, I said is hard to imagine space ever paying off directly WITHOUT "academic" exploration first. Indeed as technology progresses space might pay off, but technology can only progress if we take our losses first, and that can indeed take centuries.
Even if we decided to check some of these systems out, it would be 1,000's of years before we hear back so really kinda pointless to send a probe until we can indefinitely extend human life. Besides, how likely are we as a civilization to be around in a couple thousand years?
Better would be to start moving towards colonizing the Moon and Mars, so that our species isn't taken out by a big ol' comet or nuclear war.
Depressed by our lack of vision as well. Our priorities are seriously misplaced. We would rather spend literally trillions of dollars on failed crony capitalism instead of investing a few, by comparison paltry, billions on reaching for the stars. Many low information voters, who unfortunately influence policy, think reaching for the stars is a waste of money. They busily check their websites, with their smartphones, as they navigate their computer controlled cars with GPS. Too stupid to realize that semiconductors, advanced software, communications, material science, biological research, satellite mapping, GPS and many other technologies come from this sort of stuff...sigh Sadly, we are left to hope that maybe, just maybe, the Chinese can give it a go and lead humanity in space so at least some human progress can be made.
Decades ago it was known that the planets had over 90% of the angular momentum in the solar system. Indeed it was unlikely that the sun could have coalesced without shedding a disk of material to slow its rotation.
Extrapolating this to all stars seemed a bridge too far in those days, but it now appears to be true. If so, planets are abundant, and the probability that all of them are lifeless is essentially zero.
Some theologians will not be pleased.
... you cannot extrapolate to all stars, because we only know of one case in which life emerged so we don't know its requirements. The fact that life on Earth came very early is not evidence that we understand what makes life or that it is "easy" for it to come, is an argument but not a proof. So I completely disagree the possibility of abundant lifeless planets is essentially zero. That is why is important to find another case of life independent from ours, whether in Mars, Europa, or an exoplanet.
So it would seem but in fact there are many more factors to consider. I recommend especially Stephen Webb's 'WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Fifty Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life'.
According to one school of thought our Moon has a stabilizing effect on Earth's dynamics which could be vital.
To determine the number of places with higher intelligence we need to look at the Fermi Equation which is essentially the product of all the multifarious probabilities that control the existence of higher intelligence. That includes stars having planets etc; our estimates of the latter has risen by orders of magnitude in the last decade but the total probability of a stellar system having intelligent life is still (to use your phrase) 'essentially zero'.
So we may well be alone in a lifeless universe. Whether we are, or not, has no bearing on theology or that famous question to which the answer is 42.
You are completely right about our Moon being crucial, while moons are not rare, large moons such as ours relative to the size of Earth are. Our Moon as thought to be created by an extreme event of a collision of similar sized planets, so indeed that is one factor that we know makes us "rare".
actually, considering how quickly life came about on Earth, as well as the incredibly diverse habitats life is found, it can easily be extrapolated that the galaxy (and the universe) are teeming with life. doesn't mean it ain't 99.9% single cell life (going from single to multi cell I think is the real difficult/rare part), but life regardless.
Once again, you cannot use one case of life to extrapolate when you have infinite time to wait for that one case. That one case could be extremely rare, so rare that age of the universe does not allow it to duplicate. We just don't know until we find evidence of extraterrestial life.
dude, simple amino acids and sugars (and other organic molecules) are formed in space. In SPACE! micells form spontaneously in water from surfactants (polar/hydrophilic head, lipid body). The universe is VERY friendly to life as we know it forming where there's liquid water. Let me put it to you this way, even if life were as likely as picking the winning lottery numbers, there'd still be life in several locations within each galaxy (lotterys are never more than a few billion to one against winning).
... amino acids and sugars doesn mean life. You also cannot say the universe is very friendly to life forming where there there is liquid water because we do not know of a SINGLE where that happened except on Earth.
It's chemistry, and it has certainly happened/will happen countless times. Do you even understand the numbers involved? Literally trillions of solar systems in the universe, and you think we're really unique in this? All the stuff you need to get life started happens naturally (RNA, amino acids, sugars, etc) and chemistry + time + trillons of chances = will happen/has happened a lot.
I'm not saying intelligent life is common, but simple single celled life can't be too uncommon where there's liquid water and energy - it's just a numbers game.
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KSL's Children's Television Programming Reports, as well as its FCC public inspection file, are available for viewing during regular office hours at the KSL Broadcast House or online.
The station representative who can assist a person with disabilities with issues related to the content of the public files is Mike Dowdle, available during regular office hours at firstname.lastname@example.com and (801) 575-5555.
The station representative who can assist a person with disabilities with issues related to the content of the public files is Mike Dowdle, available during regular office hours at email@example.com and (801) 575-5555.
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