Have always liked a good "prove it" discussion - it will get dark later and I will die at some point are about the only two certainties I'm aware of. Even the first one is debatable
i think after his slightly abrasive thread last night he is showing he is in fact "down" with the ladies... nothing like a pic of RJ to prove that!!
My question about Schroedringers box into which said cat is to be placed is just how many cats can you fit in the box exactly? But since the neighbours flea ridden sh1tbag moved less concerned.
What I'm saying is - life has existed on this planet for a tiny fraction of the planet's life, and a miniscule fraction of the univere's life. Other lifeforms may well have existed at other times during the universe's life. In cosmic terms the life of entire galaxies is fairly short. I think it's fair to assume that the existence of any form of life will be, in terms of the life of the entire universe, pretty short (how long before life ceases to exist on earth? Even if we don't destroy it ourselves the sun only has a finite lifetime). I also think it's pretty fair to assume that until we discover a method of communication that travels faster than the speed of light the whole question is pretty irrelevant anyway. Any civilisation giving off signs of their existence would probably have disappeared long before those signs were seen by us. The nearest star that could possibly have a planet that could support life is 12 light years away. Imagine a conversation where it takes 24 years to ask one question and get a reply. Any sign of life arriving from the farthest reaches of the universe would be more than 13 billion years old - is it likely that the lifeform that created those signs would still exist?
And yet Professor Andrew Watson says I'm right... The Mathematical Probability Of Life On Other Earth-Like Planets So - even the experts can't agree
Originally, the omnipotent being placed us on a deep-fried planet but imagine how long that one lasted ...
http://www.hawking.org.uk/life-in-the-universe.html It seems that even Stephen Hawking can't decide... Interesting reading though...