Comments on: Eureka! Hawking secret identity? http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity A Blog of Atheist Thought Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: quantum_flux http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81400 quantum_flux Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81400 Well, perhaps by Stephen Hawking's impossible standards nobody on Earth is intelligent and that would mean there is no intelligence at all in the universe, yet, except for Hawking himself. Well, perhaps by Stephen Hawking’s impossible standards nobody on Earth is intelligent and that would mean there is no intelligence at all in the universe, yet, except for Hawking himself.

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81403 karen Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81403 "Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare," he said, then quickly added: "Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth."<br /> <br /> Hmmm. Did Hawking just meet Edward right before he made that statement?<br /> <br /> How long has Hawking been in that chair? Maybe Pike was modeled after him? <br /> <br /> Not as cool as the Spock's Brain episode. "Brain and brain! What is brain!" “Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare,” he said, then quickly added: “Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”

Hmmm. Did Hawking just meet Edward right before he made that statement?

How long has Hawking been in that chair? Maybe Pike was modeled after him?

Not as cool as the Spock’s Brain episode. “Brain and brain! What is brain!”

]]> By: KnowledgeIsPower http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81404 KnowledgeIsPower Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81404 Remember my Jupiter-Brain post? Its a little amusing to consider that we're always wondering if there are 'intelligent' extraterrestrial life forms out there when we may not even rate the description by other life-forms.<br /> <br /> What would Jupiter think about? I haven't a clue. Remember my Jupiter-Brain post? Its a little amusing to consider that we’re always wondering if there are ‘intelligent’ extraterrestrial life forms out there when we may not even rate the description by other life-forms.

What would Jupiter think about? I haven’t a clue.

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81406 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81406 <blockquote>OK So seriously. Life on other planets? Yes. Extraterrestrial life here? No. Why? We are too far from everything. Your thoughts?</blockquote><br /> <br /> It is very simplistic to think that just because we can't travel quickly through interstellar space that some other intelligence hasn't figured it out. Any sufficently advanced technology might appear as magic to us but that doesn't make it impossible. Trust me, there is intelligent life in the universe other than us. <br />

OK So seriously. Life on other planets? Yes. Extraterrestrial life here? No. Why? We are too far from everything. Your thoughts?

It is very simplistic to think that just because we can’t travel quickly through interstellar space that some other intelligence hasn’t figured it out. Any sufficently advanced technology might appear as magic to us but that doesn’t make it impossible. Trust me, there is intelligent life in the universe other than us.

]]> By: alatham http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81408 alatham Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81408 <blockquote>OK So seriously. Life on other planets? Yes. Extraterrestrial life here? No.</blockquote><br /> Life on other planets? Maybe, it would be nice to know for sure.<br /> <br /> Extraterrestrial life here? Maybe, how could we ever know for sure? Exogenesists would say we're all extraterrestrials.

OK So seriously. Life on other planets? Yes. Extraterrestrial life here? No.

Life on other planets? Maybe, it would be nice to know for sure.

Extraterrestrial life here? Maybe, how could we ever know for sure? Exogenesists would say we’re all extraterrestrials.

]]> By: alexatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81409 alexatheist Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81409 <blockquote>He's had a personal experience, if I remember correctly.</blockquote> <br /> <br /> Yep, me, my mum, and my brother along with several other people had a very upclose encounter with something back when I was seventeen. It was NOT of this world I assure you and I really don't like to elaborate on it becasue it is so very disturbing (no I'm not crazy nor am I lying). Believe me when I tell you that they are here.<br />

He’s had a personal experience, if I remember correctly.

Yep, me, my mum, and my brother along with several other people had a very upclose encounter with something back when I was seventeen. It was NOT of this world I assure you and I really don’t like to elaborate on it becasue it is so very disturbing (no I’m not crazy nor am I lying). Believe me when I tell you that they are here.

]]> By: Rob91316 http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81410 Rob91316 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81410 Considering that there are an estimated 60 billion galaxies in the universe and an estimated 10 thousand billion billion (i.e., 10 to the 22nd power) star systems in each galaxy (according to Chris Impey's book "The Living Cosmos"), the odds of there being life elsewhere in the universe is a statistical no-brainer. <br /> <br /> Whether or not life has evolved on other worlds to an advanced state commensurate with, or far beyond, that of earth humans is another question. And whether or not an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe has the technological capability to travel to our planet is yet another question. <br /> <br /> However, I think we need to open our minds to the possibility that a civilization hundreds or thousands of years more advanced than our own may have developed the technology necessary to manipulate time, space and alternative dimensions of reality in order to take "short cuts" from one distant part of the universe to another. Simply because we cannot conceive of such technology with our extremely primitive understanding of the mysteries of the universe does not mean that it is impossible for such technology to exist or for a civilization far superior in intelligence to our own to have unlocked the key to such technology. Considering that there are an estimated 60 billion galaxies in the universe and an estimated 10 thousand billion billion (i.e., 10 to the 22nd power) star systems in each galaxy (according to Chris Impey’s book “The Living Cosmos”), the odds of there being life elsewhere in the universe is a statistical no-brainer.

Whether or not life has evolved on other worlds to an advanced state commensurate with, or far beyond, that of earth humans is another question. And whether or not an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe has the technological capability to travel to our planet is yet another question.

However, I think we need to open our minds to the possibility that a civilization hundreds or thousands of years more advanced than our own may have developed the technology necessary to manipulate time, space and alternative dimensions of reality in order to take “short cuts” from one distant part of the universe to another. Simply because we cannot conceive of such technology with our extremely primitive understanding of the mysteries of the universe does not mean that it is impossible for such technology to exist or for a civilization far superior in intelligence to our own to have unlocked the key to such technology.

]]> By: illnoise http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81411 illnoise Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81411 I don't think we can say that there is life on other planets until we have evidence of it. If we start saying there is life on other planets without evidence to support it, we may have to accept the existence of other things that we have no evidence for. <br /> <br /> Personally I think that life on other planets is possible, but we will never know. they are so far away on planets as tiny as ours that finding them would make the needle in a haystack metaphor seem relatively simple. For them to find us or us to find them would take a level of technology that Sci-Fi writers haven't thought of yet. I don’t think we can say that there is life on other planets until we have evidence of it. If we start saying there is life on other planets without evidence to support it, we may have to accept the existence of other things that we have no evidence for.

Personally I think that life on other planets is possible, but we will never know. they are so far away on planets as tiny as ours that finding them would make the needle in a haystack metaphor seem relatively simple. For them to find us or us to find them would take a level of technology that Sci-Fi writers haven’t thought of yet.

]]> By: thx1138 http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81412 thx1138 Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81412 I like what the late Carl Sagan said on the subject. When asked if he thought there was intelligent life on other planets in the galaxy, he said, "I don't know." The reporter then asked him what he thought in his gut. He said, "I don't think with my gut."<br /> <br /> I like what the late Carl Sagan said on the subject. When asked if he thought there was intelligent life on other planets in the galaxy, he said, “I don’t know.” The reporter then asked him what he thought in his gut. He said, “I don’t think with my gut.”

]]> By: karen http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/22/eureka_hawking_secret_identity/comment-page-1#comment-81413 karen Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-81413 alex<br /> <br /> <blockquote>Trust me, there is intelligent life in the universe other than us. </blockquote><br /> <br /> How do you know?<br /> <br /> <br /> illnoise<br /> <br /> Triple post! Wow. ;-)<br /> alex

Trust me, there is intelligent life in the universe other than us.

How do you know?

illnoise

Triple post! Wow. ;-)

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