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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Why would you need any more than a smidge of gravity? Say, 20%? Just enough to make sure things don't float around in the corridors...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.You're talking about two-way communication. If we saw unmistakeable signs of life in the Andomeda Galaxy - despite being 2 million...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread History Apollo 11 or Sputnik 1 - which was more significant?."more significant"? "pick one"? "more impressive"? "best answer?"
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Yes. Many of which do not apply to this topic of discussion. This is about exo-biology. Competent scientists are not looking at...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.Pretty certain no serious scientist thinks that an individual who cannot reproduce is not alive. So it is not the definition anyone uses...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.I don't grant that mules and ants are germane. Naively, by that same definition, a barren woman is not alive. The defintion of life is...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.There are, by the way, replicative cycles in nature that are far, far simpler than DNA/RNA. The Krebs cycle (AKA citric acid cycle) is...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Undergrad Why Does Snow Pack Better Near the Melting Point?.A photo of a snowman and Charles Link (left).
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DaveC426913 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life with
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The thing to remember is that, if new life formed today on Earth, it would get eaten very quickly. So you can't conclude that life only...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Alien life, probabilities, and interstellar propagation of human life.I think there a few assumptions and misconceptions happening here, and trying to project it onto Fermi's Paradox is making it worse...
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread Bad Math Jokes.
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DaveC426913 replied to the thread What causes the asymmetry in a symmetrically developing organism?.You mean your ascensing colon is on your left? Fascinating.
