Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ...
by Razengan on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:38AM
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> We already know there is and was no intelligent life in our solar system besides what's on Earth
We do not know all that was on Earth. We wouldn't have known about dinosaurs if we didn't chance upon their remains, and we only recently learned that they had feathers.
There is probably no way to know everything that has happened on this planet.
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And that brings another facet of the point in the GP:
It's not just the distances between different planets that hinders life from meeting other life; even life on the very same planet is prevented by vast periods of time from ever encountering each other.
We do not know all that was on Earth. We wouldn't have known about dinosaurs if we didn't chance upon their remains, and we only recently learned that they had feathers.
There is probably no way to know everything that has happened on this planet.
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And that brings another facet of the point in the GP:
It's not just the distances between different planets that hinders life from meeting other life; even life on the very same planet is prevented by vast periods of time from ever encountering each other.