While majestic meteor showers brighten our nights, it's tempting to wonder what else is out there? Scientists search for life in space, but it may not look like anything we expect. It could take the shape of an entire planet or star! There are some who say the Earth is one big living creature. Its inhabitants imagine themselves to be individual and separate, but we are really like leaves on one tree. How might things change if we all agreed with that? And what if we were looking at Earth's most intelligent neighbour each time we watched a sunset?
Thought for the day...
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numbnuts
Squire
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- Gone over the hill and far away
There was a professor that said "we evolved from monkeys, but another being could evolved from lizards and could have scaly skin"
God made man to his own image and likeness, well if he did I’m sure he wouldn't have put all his eggs in one basket (plant earth) I’m sure he would scatter them around
and if we are here by accident (big bang) why can’t it happen else where
God made man to his own image and likeness, well if he did I’m sure he wouldn't have put all his eggs in one basket (plant earth) I’m sure he would scatter them around
and if we are here by accident (big bang) why can’t it happen else where
Well, as it's my hobby, I've taken pictures of lots of far-distant places, and as the telecope is busy whirring away I do often wonder 'who or what is up there?' - or if anyone or any 'being' in that galaxy is busy taking a snapshot of our galaxy at the same time? (my avatar, in case anyone's wondering, is known as 'NGC2403' and is a galaxy as big as our own, about 12 million lightyears away. It would be nice to think there's someone up there).
As for the meteors (Perseids) - well folks, get outdoors these next few nights if you can, and if skies are clear (best after about 1am) but don't get too excited! As usual, the hype is bigger than the show itself. I've been watching the Perseids for several years and usually the number of meteors seen is not all that much above the average for the rest of the year. If you see ten or a dozen bright ones in the hour you're doing well. But have fun!
As for the meteors (Perseids) - well folks, get outdoors these next few nights if you can, and if skies are clear (best after about 1am) but don't get too excited! As usual, the hype is bigger than the show itself. I've been watching the Perseids for several years and usually the number of meteors seen is not all that much above the average for the rest of the year. If you see ten or a dozen bright ones in the hour you're doing well. But have fun!
accountantpete
OAP
As the old timers say - if you seen one Perseid you've seen em all.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
I like the conceptual idea that our universe is part of an atom of a cell within an organism living on another world in a larger universe which in itself is a tiny part of an atom.... ad infinitum- both larger and smaller!
Just me then!
Just me then!
Apeman
Über Member
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If I was seen by my neighbours lying in my garden looking at the sky they would think I was Perseid !!!!!!!
Globalti
Legendary Member
My belief is that the universe and time being infinite the juxtaposition of all the atoms, which make up our world is just a tiny temporary coincidence in time. Unexplained events like train crashes and sudden deaths are just even smaller bits of interference in the coincidence. One day the whole coincidence will end like a TV signal and all those atoms will go off after being temporarily inconvenienced and do something completely different.
trustysteed
Guest
i don't believe in alien life and other civilizations, Per seid, but I'm happy to be proven wrong! 
I find it hard to believe that this small planet we live on would be the only place in this galaxy never mind the entire universe that life would evolve.
Even given that conditions may be ideal here, the sheer number of species and forms of life is staggering. Not only that but life will find a way even in the most inhospitable places.
In boiling water in the deep ocean trenches near volcanic vents, to the insides of rocks buried hundreds of feet underground, to the frozen reaches of the poles. Life gets a hold and clings on regardless.
The elements, compounds, proteins and assorted stuff that all life is composed of exists everywhere.
The chances that in all of time and all the places that have existed, it is only here and now that life has evolved is more incredible than if life were to be found to be everywhere.
Intelligent life elsewhere? Well that's not quite so likely I suppose but I would still say it is odds on.
I wonder if an alien species would have an equivalent of cycling?
Even given that conditions may be ideal here, the sheer number of species and forms of life is staggering. Not only that but life will find a way even in the most inhospitable places.
In boiling water in the deep ocean trenches near volcanic vents, to the insides of rocks buried hundreds of feet underground, to the frozen reaches of the poles. Life gets a hold and clings on regardless.
The elements, compounds, proteins and assorted stuff that all life is composed of exists everywhere.
The chances that in all of time and all the places that have existed, it is only here and now that life has evolved is more incredible than if life were to be found to be everywhere.
Intelligent life elsewhere? Well that's not quite so likely I suppose but I would still say it is odds on.
I wonder if an alien species would have an equivalent of cycling?
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
colly said:
Yes surely, in the infinite reaches of creation...
We can't be the only ones to exist, the odds are just too enormous. We like to think we are special, but I can't believe it.
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
And you know what? I bet aliens ride Galaxies....
