[meteorite-list] Alien Life - We are the proof!
From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:05:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4A9E89B8.8040507_at_meteoritesusa.com> Hi List, Ok, Now we're getting somewhere. Why I didn't see the aliens for all the humans I don't know. Kind of the forest for the trees scenario I guess. Which just goes to show that life does in fact exist elsewhere. Our own existence proves it. We are that life, we exist therefore other life must exist as well. Looking at our own planet from outside our own galaxy, instead of saying life is "out there somewhere" why didn't we look back at ourselves? Maybe because we've never left our neighborhood. In the history of human kind, knowledge is relative. Meaning that it's relative to local environment and experience. Too many times has human kind been locked in the box of their own interpretations of their local environment and the knowledge of their immediate surroundings. We've always assumed that everything must somehow center around ourselves. Most humans who've ever lived have never ventured past the realms of their own comfortable little worlds. Our tiny personal section of the world is what we know and we tend to base our interpretation of the unknown on our own biased local knowledge. It wasn't until recently (the past few thousand years) that human kind has started to look outward and beyond our own home for answers. We've only very recently (geologically and universally speaking) begun to explore the world of meteorites and to study the composition of our own solar system. Not only can meteorites tell us what our solar system is made of, but they can tell us how old it is, and whether the possibility of life exists beyond our own little neck of the woods. All known meteorites are not even a minute fraction of the mass of our own planet much less the massive amounts of material floating around in our own solar system, or our entire galaxy, or the universe. How many planetary systems are in each galaxy, and how much material is floating around out there that we "don't" know about? How many unknown minerals, and chemicals have we yet to discover? We're assuming that everything is pretty much the same throughout the universe chemically. I ask you this. How can we state that unequivocally? We can't.. There are billions of species of life forms on out planet. How can we say with certainty that there is nothing else out there? We can't. We are the answer to our own question of whether life could survive in the desolate universe. If we can survive, so can other life. There is NO arguing that. If you believe in us, you MUST believe in other life out there whether they be little green aliens or carbon based microbial lifeforms or anything else we would define as life. Our very existence proves it. Or does it? Can someone point out a flaw in the logic of this thought process? Maybe this is linear thinking but honestly maybe I'm too tired right now after being up all night and can't think of one. I'd be curious to see what people think about that. Regards, Eric Wichman Meteorites USA Received on Wed 02 Sep 2009 11:05:28 AM PDT |
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