04-03-2004, 02:33 AM
Just because you don't believe in extraterrestrial life (religious view I presume) doesn't mean it isn't out there. But that's not even the point... doesn't seem NASA is really looking for life (they cut funding to SETI so now it's private) and they care more about terraforming than searching for life. You may have the same view as my Republican friend who thinks the future (that is, after he is dead) is not worth doing anything for, and is more worried about things that happen in his lifetime.
By the way, I don't mean it as a facetious remark that I presume it's a religious view. I just mean that if you look at it from a straight logical standpoint, it's close to impossible that we're the only planet with life. There are more and more other solar systems with planets being discovered every year... little water, little carbon, little oxygen, boom, you got life. But obviously I realize that some religious people feel that life was created on Earth and Earth alone, humans modeled after God, Adam and Eve, etc.... and I can respect that if you believe it. But scientifically it don't work that way. I'll say it again though... PIX, the computer is a decent part of your life, as it is many people on this forum... think they'd be as advanced and as prevalent without the technology created for space exploration?
By the way, I don't mean it as a facetious remark that I presume it's a religious view. I just mean that if you look at it from a straight logical standpoint, it's close to impossible that we're the only planet with life. There are more and more other solar systems with planets being discovered every year... little water, little carbon, little oxygen, boom, you got life. But obviously I realize that some religious people feel that life was created on Earth and Earth alone, humans modeled after God, Adam and Eve, etc.... and I can respect that if you believe it. But scientifically it don't work that way. I'll say it again though... PIX, the computer is a decent part of your life, as it is many people on this forum... think they'd be as advanced and as prevalent without the technology created for space exploration?