[meteorite-list] Alien Life - We are the proof!

From: Becky and Kirk <bandk_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 17:34:28 -0500
Message-ID: <10130508544F41348AC429E8FF5E3127_at_owner55652f88b>

Great post Eric----tres bien!
You said it better than I tried to!!
Kirk.......:-)
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From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:05 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Life - We are the proof!


> 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
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