Seems to me that the Mars rovers have pretty much proved that at one time
Mars probably supported life based on their findings and observations---and
that is right in our own back yard!
Kirk.........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Whitmer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:24 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Contact Predicted
To all listees pondering the Eternal Verities:
Just because the Universe is really big is not an argument that there is
Life out there. The Ocean is really big, but that's not an argument for
the existence of a Loch Ness monster or any other species of pleisosaur.
I have to actually see a unicorn before I'll believe that they exist. I'm
Old School, I have to actually see a visible light photograph of just one
of these supposed googols of Earth like planets. All I've heard is pure
speculation, forumulae, projections of our loneliness, (there has to be
someone out there!) extrapolations, computer models, mathematical
probabilities, etc. Still waiting on the evidence! Not proof, just a
simple tiny shred of evidence. One simple SOS in Morse Code on any one of
the billions and billions of channels monitered by Seti. One peer
reviewed, in focus, well lit, properly exposed photograph of an actual
flying saucer. One little tiny fossil in a meteorite. Anything! Closer to
home, I'm still waiting for anything at all from the Mars probes. Just
one incontrovertible shred of evidence where all the scientists go: "Yes,
there's life on Mars!" Until I see this evidence I have to conclude that
on the closest planet that was once very Earth like, there is no sign of
life. If we can't even find it on Mars, which should have been teeming
with life, which should have left tons of evidence which should have been
found by now, then I must conclude that the Universe is a vast lifeless
place.
The only life that I can verify by empirical evidence is right here on
this planet. You can do all the thought experiments you want, in your
imagination you can populate the entire vast Universe with bacteria, or
Star Trek/Star Wars like critters, whatever you like, it's all pure
speculation. All that we know for sure is that is Life here on Earth.
Plenty of it. The problem is nobody knows where it came from. Nobody is
really sure even what it is. Can someone tell me what the Life Force is
that differentiates living things from inanimate objects? Is it Chi?, Ki?
Prana? What the heck is it? Did it originate here on Earth. (I think it
did.) If it did, then how did that first coacervate of organic molecules
become alive in the first place? How did it know how to assemble a strand
of self replicating RNA? At exactly what point did the Life Force enter
this assemblage of non living stuff? Don't even get me started on the
Miracle of Intelligence/Consciousness! As if anyone knows what that little
voice in your head is!
This should be pretty simple stuff to figure out, even for a young, dumb
species like homo sapiens. After all, it happened right here on our home
planet just a few billion years ago right under our noses. People will
tell you otherwise, but we don't have a clue as to what life is or how it
got started. Until these basic questions about the origins of life on
our own planet are answered I think we're getting way ahead of ourselves
by believing in aliens. Little green men or tall gray men, I have to see
one to believe in them.
Dos mas pesos,
Phil Whitmer
Nota bene: Of course I could be completely wrong and Dr. Edgar Mitchell
could be completely right!
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