Comments on: Article of the Day: “Are We Alone In The Universe?” https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/#comment-3292 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:26:07 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28379#comment-3292 In reply to Antonio Di Stefano.

You’ve got good taste in science fiction, Antonio!

]]> By: Antonio Di Stefano https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/#comment-3291 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:55:23 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28379#comment-3291 A book that gives some plausible reasons why we should not wish to meet aliens or alien worlds is Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. After that you can choose to see the two movies based on the book.

]]> By: Antonio Di Stefano https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/#comment-3290 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:59:38 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28379#comment-3290 Back when we were visiting the moon and interest was high for space travel and ETs, a science professor at California State University in San Francisco offered a lecture-presentation with video, charts and all , that led to the inexorable conclusion that “We are effectively quarantined on Earth, and all this talk about leaving our solar system to find another home is simply delusion.The numbers simply do not lie” And he had plenty numbers to show. I think he may have made an exception for the Moon and Mars, but without any native life there. A boy with Ebola crossed into Uganda in the last 24 hours, and panic ensues. Can you imagine an ET stopping by and shaking your hands.
I found my view more in line with the a message in the 1991 movie: The Final Approach. The other-worldly psychiatrist coaxes a deceased test pilot to think of the form of intelligence we call God as a scientist. This god-scientist has a huge laboratory the size of the universe in which to gather empirical evidence about life.; and has setup an ideal test environment, like a Petri dish, the size of the Earth. In this environment he is doing serious work to determine how to populate the universe.

The same way that Ebola deaths are not in vain as someone always survives and provides a remedy, so our life experience though restricted to this planet is not in vain. While it seems unlikely we shall ever come face to face with an ET, we can try to intuit how a god-scientist is likely to transmit life to other worlds in the universe.
Live long and prosper.

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/#comment-3289 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:48:36 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28379#comment-3289 In reply to Steven Skulnik.

Nice!

]]> By: Steven Skulnik https://lettersblogatory.com/2019/06/12/article-of-the-day-are-we-alone-in-the-universe/#comment-3288 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:25:15 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=28379#comment-3288 The word of the day is “abiogenesis.”

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