Hi, Paul, List, > In "The Aliens are Silent Because > They are Dead," I wrote [summarizing]: > "The aliens are silent because they're > dead. Life on other planets would > probably go extinct soon after its > origin, due to runaway heating or > cooling on their fledgling planets."
It seems an obvious cultural expression of the contemporary obsession with climate change for someone to assert that climate change would destroy ALL life on ALL planets capable of supporting it, whether the number of potential life- supporting planets is dozens, hundreds, thousands, or more. It's like a soap opera --- planets die young, they say. We anthropomorphize our science. James Lovelock proposed the Gaia Hypothesis (planets enter into a supportive symbiosis with life). Peter Ward proposed the Medea Hypothesis (planets try to destroy any life that arises on them). A challenge to this new hypothesis is how one could explain the survival of life on Earth for billions of years: why aren't we dead? And why didn't it happen long ago? Are we the only one to survive? Unlikely. But... where IS everybody? That question arises from a lunchtime discussion at Los Alamos in 1943. A tableful of the brightest minds in science agreed that there must be other intelligent life in the universe, then Enrico Fermi asked. "Well, where IS everybody?" and people have been trying to answer that question ever since. Great question. "If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens, Where is Everybody?" by Stephen Webb, provides 50 of the proposed answers to Fermi's Famous Question since 1943. A PDF of this book is available: http://book4you.org/book/511674/c8066c The download link is at the bottom of that page. I guess that "climate change" is Answer No. 51. Sterling Webb --------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Meteorite-list [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Paul via Meteorite-list Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 7:22 PM To: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Correction to In "The Aliens are Silent Because They are Dead," I wrote: "The aliens are silent because they're dead. Life on other planets would probably go extinct soon after its origin, due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets." The correct URL for the first link should be: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-e xtinct >Charles H Lineweaver Publications - >http://goo.gl/4PPGuK and http://goo.gl/1H99Rs The corrected URL for the first link should be: http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/publications.html or https://goo.gl/W30KtK Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
