Recent content by FN Moeller

We should never try to contact aliens. It's not safe. If they contact us replying is a good idea but you let sleeping dogs lie. Aliens don't mess with us because once they are spacefaring they have no use for our planet other than studying us. They get every resource they need from space...

No octopuses will never evolve language and will never evolve a culture as they are not social animals. Animals with social structure like wolves and apes are the ones with potential.

Whenever someone talks about the Drake Equation I roll my eyes. It's hardly a revelation. Any decent high school kid could have written the Drake Equation in about five minutes. Its a simple set of probabilities none of which are known. It achieves nothing. It accomplishes nothing. It...

This is one of those unnecessary thinks we do because some fool with poor instincts dreams it up. We share life with other planets and its a two way street. Plus you couldn't contaminate the moon if you tried. Nothing would do anything but lay dormant. If we could study enough samples from...

There is absolutely nothing new about what Space X is doing. Everything ever done by NASA was done by private corporations. Everything. An eccentric founder is amusing but that doesn't change anything. He may supply the vision to make the leap to privately funded exploration but I doubt that...

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You need to examine deep earth bacteria, found up to 5 km below the surface at temperatures above that of boiling water, anaerobic bacteria that would survive both impact and space travel. Yes life leaves a planet with a large impact. This is how we know that Mars still has life and that Mars...

But you do have an infinate amount of time before the big bang. In my view that was required. If you subscribe to the everything from nothing view of the big bang than that's another story.

Might have? Most certainly has is the answer. Its a two way street also of course.

Either way, its all from the formation of a subatomic particles and their counter part one of which is less stable. Throw in an infinite amount of time and you eventually get a big bang.