logo Sign In

sean wookie

User Group
Members
Join date
11-Jan-2004
Last activity
28-Jun-2025
Posts
9,875

Post History

Post
#300563
Topic
Do you believe in aliens?
Time
Originally posted by: shimy
oh seans backing his stuff up now man so much as changed since i was gone.

yes sorry i was thinking of different moons. as for what i was saying about the harsh climates. yes there are things that could survive out there but fully evolved super survival bugs just don't pop up out of no where if any of our theories on how life came to be are even remotely accurate, well i find it very hard to believe something could evolve on a place such as Europa unless it was planted in which cause where did that life come from, the most likely explanation is earth making them not alien life.

as for the challenge i was giving, here ill put it simple with the number of stars that are out there or even in our galaxy why isn't the night sky way brighter then it was, cause realistically at and point you look up at in the sky there are probably 5 or 6 stars in your line of sight. and if space is empty there should be nothing to prevent the light of those stars from reaching us. So why is the night sky doted with stars NOT jam packed with them?

sean read up on gamma bursts you'll find them interesting, there a phenomenon which may lead to conclusion of life being EXTREMELY rare in the universe.

oh and 10^22 = 1000000000000000000000000


I know about gamma rays I think they are quite cool but the majority happen from Super Novas that form black holes. Super Novas happen only about once every 50 years in our Galaxy and many of them form into Neutron stars. There are 200 to 400 billion stars in our galaxy I wouldn't be surprised if most of those stars have planets (I'm not going to guess about how many of them have life). The article at the bottom says that the Galaxy is about 13.6 billion years old give or take 800 million (which is funny because the universe is only 13.7 billion)

My estimate is about 274 Million Super Novas AT MOST have happened in our Galaxies lifetime, but just how many of these have formed black holes needed for the Gamma ray burst? How many have hit Solar Systems? How many of the Solar Systems that were hit have had life? I didn't even take into account the the stars lifetimes when the galaxy had just formed.

So did I do a good job?

Sources:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/earth_age_040817.html
Post
#300527
Topic
Do you believe in aliens?
Time
Originally posted by: Arnie.d
Originally posted by: shimy
If the universe is so big so infinitely huge, estimates suggest numbers to be around 10^22 and if light always travels in a strait line and since space is empty literally mass has a density of around 10 or 15 atoms per square meter. why is the night sky black and doted with pin points of light?

10^22 what?
You want to know why you see so many stars if there's so "little" in space? Because we are in a galaxy were the stars are "close" to eachother. I guess between the galaxies there's a whole lot of nothing.


By the way there isn't actually nothing between Galaxies. There is Globular Clusters which I believe get ejected in Galaxy Collisions. We have a few orbiting our Galaxy. But then again this doesn't have anything to do with what your talking about.

SOURCE:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/cosmic_orphans_030717.html
Post
#300524
Topic
Do you believe in aliens?
Time
Originally posted by: shimy
I believe you shouldnt ask questions which honestly given our current knowledge is impossible to solve one way or the other sean.

as for the moon near Jupiter it doesn't have liquid water, it has liquid methane, its THAT cold. i doubt we'll find anything living there because of how cold it is, it just seems to me that a place that is that cold the atoms aren't moving fast enough for them do do anything. as for that other volcanic planet your talking about the whole planet is molten, so unlikely anything there. bacteria don't tend to grow on lava flows, though there are some that can withstand alot of heat but lava flows i think thats just a little be too much for them.

as for the argument that the universe is too big, well that may be the case but the universe is also VERY harsh. look into the amount of radiation that is given off my super novas and things of that ilk. ill tell you this much if one were to happen in a near by system our solar system would not be a very nice place to live.

i should point out that i am not saying life doesnt exist out there only that really people we cant know.

Oh and a cookie for whoever can tell me the answer this paradox.

If the universe is so big so infinitely huge, estimates suggest numbers to be around 10^22 and if light always travels in a strait line and since space is empty literally mass has a density of around 10 or 15 atoms per square meter. why is the night sky black and doted with pin points of light?



It was on the History Channel where I heard about the water on Europa and Titan is not a volcanic moon. From what I heard on the show was that it's atmosphere is similar to an earlier Earth and by life I'm not talking like fish I'm talking about microbes which are so damn stubborn and live pretty much everywhere on the earth. I also heard they are looking for something like tube worms which live under extreme conditions near vents that release sulfur! On Space.com they say from what they say about some thermal models show that it might be possible that liquid water may exist under the surface. They are going to launch a probe there around 2016 I believe which is the target date.

My source on Europa: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_phillips_europa_030315.html

You can watch that video about Jupiter and its moons here: http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=12584

And do you know a site where I could watch Carl Sagan's Cosmos?

I don't think that we would be the ONE and only planet with life in the universe. I just can't see us being that special. If the Universe is infinite there is infinite chances.

There is a quote I like from Hitchhikers Guide:
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.
Post
#300258
Topic
What programs do you use to secure your PC?
Time
Originally posted by: Arnie.d
I think I'll give ad-aware a try, already 2 people who use it

Ferris, do you run AVG and Clamwin simultaneous? Don't they conflict?

Sean, are you serious or just kidding? No antivirus or antispyware? Do you even update windows itself?


I think I have McAfee Security Center and no I don't update Windows I'm still on version 3.1.
Post
#300148
Topic
Fantasy novels being Made into movies for big and small screen
Time
Originally posted by: C3PX
Haha, yeah that is so true. If they could even remember all their names. Seems like somebody found them just about every other episode, then abandoned them without telling anyone for some reason or another. Man, the world of Gilligan's Island is full of a lot of jerks. Of course the alternative would have been no guest stars.


Yes like I really enjoyed the Harlem Globetrotters.
Post
#300112
Topic
Fantasy novels being Made into movies for big and small screen
Time
Originally posted by: C3PX
He mentioned Back to the Future. Though I must disagree about only the first one being good, I rather enjoyed all three. Though looking at everything Robert Zemeckis has ever written or directed, the BTTF trilogy are the only ones I have really enjoyed. I didn't care for Gump, and Cast Away was just painful IMHO. Sure, Hanks did an amazing job acting when he had no one to act with other than a vollyball, but the whole lone cast away thing isn't the most exciting story in the world.


I'd rather see Gilligan's Island: The Movie.