3rd August 2010, 8:39 AM
Weltall/ Then I'm not understanding what you're saying. The first amino acids are theorized to have come from ye olde primordial goo that would kill anything alive today and vice versa. Our specific planet had an abundance of oceans and is theorized to have been 100% water, so doesn't it make sense that the sun heating the water would have an excellent place for those first building blocks of life to begin forming legions there? Right, but not every planet works that way. Not every planet is water-centric where every life form needs water, it's accepted among scientific circles that forms of space bacteria exist as one example or planets that are hundreds of degrees below freezing, etc etc. Think about it: Where penguins live and thrive would kill you and I within minutes, even seconds.
Dinosaurs came on the scene in a world that would kill a human being, the atmosphere would have made us dizzy, then sleepy then lay down and die in our sleep. Those conditions were fantastic for particular designs in evolution - its like playing with the settings on a video card to get each game to work at optimum levels. Those settings yielded that type of creation, as the settings change those creations lose FPS and evolve or die, so a new game can be played with new creations.
There is no such thing as 'good conditions' for life since everything is relative. The catalyst is whether or not the building blocks exist on that planet but again, those building blocks can be anything, it doesn;t have to be replicating RNA bits and pieces because that's just OUR path, another path could be protozoans that can only function with absolutely no light - that happens on earth too. Life that evolved specifically underground and never hit the surface, has no traces to ancestors above ground and can only function in absolute dark to the point that a scientists flashlight can harm it. That is not good conditions for life, that is good conditions for that particular life form.
This planet's life forms need water and sun, but to think every planet needs that is ridiculous. It's like assuming that everyone is christian. Now if the debate was intelligent life, the levels of holy god what ifs is too much for me because intelligence as we know it is actually a rooted safety measure, an instinct that we used to survive. Art for example comes from nomads during ice ages, forced to cramp conditions, seeing the same 8/12 people day in and day out, so telling stories, building with the hands was a way to ease stress. So the catalyst there was extreme conditions where without the ability to 'imagine' we would have showed symptoms of desolation disorder. Even our cousins get in on the act and other animals as well. A bear with a stick, a wolf chasing a butterfly, gorillas throwing rocks at birds etc but for us we had to take that behavior and pump it up a million times over because we had to think outside the proverbial box to create things like mammoth traps, armor to protect the forearms against meat eating animals just like a cop training his K-9 unit, we had to imagine or die. The endless and infinite puzzle of specific actions that happened to get to that point and carry it through is so wily I usually find myself doubting that intelligent life exists anywhere but here. To make it even more profound we probably had 4 or 5 species of primitive mankind at some point (at least one other that we know of) but they all died out except us.
Dinosaurs came on the scene in a world that would kill a human being, the atmosphere would have made us dizzy, then sleepy then lay down and die in our sleep. Those conditions were fantastic for particular designs in evolution - its like playing with the settings on a video card to get each game to work at optimum levels. Those settings yielded that type of creation, as the settings change those creations lose FPS and evolve or die, so a new game can be played with new creations.
There is no such thing as 'good conditions' for life since everything is relative. The catalyst is whether or not the building blocks exist on that planet but again, those building blocks can be anything, it doesn;t have to be replicating RNA bits and pieces because that's just OUR path, another path could be protozoans that can only function with absolutely no light - that happens on earth too. Life that evolved specifically underground and never hit the surface, has no traces to ancestors above ground and can only function in absolute dark to the point that a scientists flashlight can harm it. That is not good conditions for life, that is good conditions for that particular life form.
This planet's life forms need water and sun, but to think every planet needs that is ridiculous. It's like assuming that everyone is christian. Now if the debate was intelligent life, the levels of holy god what ifs is too much for me because intelligence as we know it is actually a rooted safety measure, an instinct that we used to survive. Art for example comes from nomads during ice ages, forced to cramp conditions, seeing the same 8/12 people day in and day out, so telling stories, building with the hands was a way to ease stress. So the catalyst there was extreme conditions where without the ability to 'imagine' we would have showed symptoms of desolation disorder. Even our cousins get in on the act and other animals as well. A bear with a stick, a wolf chasing a butterfly, gorillas throwing rocks at birds etc but for us we had to take that behavior and pump it up a million times over because we had to think outside the proverbial box to create things like mammoth traps, armor to protect the forearms against meat eating animals just like a cop training his K-9 unit, we had to imagine or die. The endless and infinite puzzle of specific actions that happened to get to that point and carry it through is so wily I usually find myself doubting that intelligent life exists anywhere but here. To make it even more profound we probably had 4 or 5 species of primitive mankind at some point (at least one other that we know of) but they all died out except us.