On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 12:30 PM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
*after the so called Hadean period of mass bombardment life emerged within > a few 100 million years. Given that time periods tend to telescope the > early you go in geological history this is fairly quick. * Given that we have only one example to work with there is no way of knowing if that is typical or not. Life could have Evolved freakishly quickly on Earth because in at least one way we know the example is not typical, not only did it eventually produce life it eventually produced intelligent life. And bacteria only planets must far outnumber amoeba planets, and amoeba planets must far outnumber worm planets, and worm planets must far outnumber monkey planets, and monkey planets must far outnumber planets with beings who make radio telescopes. I think the most obvious explanation for the Fermi Paradox is probably the correct one, we're the first, after all somebody has to be. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1fvCLWPNmDx%2BwdNT-ggNE1aw4oYAAjTgAHndxBkA%3Dn%3DA%40mail.gmail.com.
