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  1. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    How the fuck would they do that. The amount of energy needed to make helium react is fucking insane. Even fluorine (the most reactive substance in the universe) doesn't touch helium iirc
  2. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    helium doesn't react with bloody anything
  3. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    and I'm just saying what I already said about that and helium-based life-forms have a very low probability of existing, as helium is inert
  4. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    Yeah, and how many of them are inhabitable? :P
  5. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    Yah I am in that percentage of people as well. It might be there, might not be there. What I think people need in these matters is a bit of scientific judgment really.
  6. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    I'm not discounting the existence of life altogether. I do think it's entirely possible that there is life somewhere. But I don't think we'll find it in this age. Sure, we may have encounters in the future, but since the odds of us meeting space-faring aliens are so negligible, I'm not taking it...
  7. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    read my post it clearly states that even for microbial life to flourish the physical limiting conditions are narrow even a microbe won't flourish on a gas giant thanks and that Drake equation is nice, but it's 100% conjuecture. An educated guess is still a guess.
  8. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    No, they didn't discover a micro-organism on Mars. If they did, it'd be all over the news. It might happen elsewhere. We don't know. What I'm talking about is that the odds of it happening aren't as big and as likely as you guys all think. What I'm pointing out is that even though there is a...
  9. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    how does he arrive at 10 space-faring species in the galaxy
  10. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    how did you calculate this
  11. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    It doesn't matter if the odds of life actually being formed negatively eclipse that of the amount of space available to harbor life, Harlequin. In that case, the odds of life actually being formed would prevail as they are closer to zero. And then it matters where you draw the line of things...
  12. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    The problem is that most chemical reactions need similar physical conditions to earth to provide the right amount of energy for reactions. You don't want reactions running at high temperatures like on the sun or even on Venus. The rates of reaction and the energy expense is just too high for any...
  13. Altmer

    Extraterrestrial Life

    To put it in other words: the evolutionary conditions on Earth are more favorable to the appearance of life than the conditions on other planets. It's just harder to keep a body working at pressures of 100 bar and 900 K, y'know?
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