10-03-2019, 12:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-03-2019, 08:10 PM by Firebolt391d.)
I like this post. I followed you for the most part through to the end (except for a couple of things you mentioned here and there, and except for the bit about a real life SCP conspiracy. I don't agree with that).
I have once heard the idea that, perhaps, the life on Earth (humans on Earth themselves even) originally came from another planet or asteroid that at some point hit the Earth and populated the Earth with beings that eventually evolved into us.
Some even believe that Earth life originally came from Mars. Mars is an interesting planet, as it has evidence across its geography and sediment samples that there used to be water on the surface of Mars, possibly rivers and lakes and oceans. Nowadays though, all of that water is gone, and it is believed that all the previous water has long since been pulled from the surface, along with the atmosphere that used to exist, as the atmosphere was too light and too close to the sun to stay attached to Mars. Its atmosphere is believed to have been eventually pulled out toward the sun in a large evaporated form. The only remaining H2O water on Mars can be found in a frozen form at its poles (Wikipedia can tell you more about the history of water on Mars).
Speaking of planets with liquid on them, Saturn's moon Titan is a rather large moon, and it is known to have lakes, rivers, seas, and even rain. This liquid, though, is not H2O (water) but rather "liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane" (Nasa.gov's article about Titan).
However, regardless of how much we hope to find life beyond Earth, so far we have found none. (I am simply stating a fact). Even the simplest forms of life that we know of on Earth... the rest of our entire solar system is completely void of it. No bacterium, no single-celled organisms (at least as far as we can yet observe) have not been observed. This is also true of plant life.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that Earth is the only planet in our solar system that happened to be formed in the "Goldilocks Zone," or the mildest orbit around the sun that allows for life to form.
If this is true, then perhaps there is another solar system out there somewhere in which there is a planet similar to Earth in another solar system's "Goldilocks Zone" that also contains life. Nevertheless, no evidence of such life has yet been observed. Even the simplest electromagnetic signal (radio wave signal) has not been found from anywhere in space that resembles any kind of intelligent life form.
Well, anyway, I thought that this information was pertinent to the topic.
I have once heard the idea that, perhaps, the life on Earth (humans on Earth themselves even) originally came from another planet or asteroid that at some point hit the Earth and populated the Earth with beings that eventually evolved into us.
Some even believe that Earth life originally came from Mars. Mars is an interesting planet, as it has evidence across its geography and sediment samples that there used to be water on the surface of Mars, possibly rivers and lakes and oceans. Nowadays though, all of that water is gone, and it is believed that all the previous water has long since been pulled from the surface, along with the atmosphere that used to exist, as the atmosphere was too light and too close to the sun to stay attached to Mars. Its atmosphere is believed to have been eventually pulled out toward the sun in a large evaporated form. The only remaining H2O water on Mars can be found in a frozen form at its poles (Wikipedia can tell you more about the history of water on Mars).
Speaking of planets with liquid on them, Saturn's moon Titan is a rather large moon, and it is known to have lakes, rivers, seas, and even rain. This liquid, though, is not H2O (water) but rather "liquid hydrocarbons like methane and ethane" (Nasa.gov's article about Titan).
However, regardless of how much we hope to find life beyond Earth, so far we have found none. (I am simply stating a fact). Even the simplest forms of life that we know of on Earth... the rest of our entire solar system is completely void of it. No bacterium, no single-celled organisms (at least as far as we can yet observe) have not been observed. This is also true of plant life.
Perhaps this is due to the fact that Earth is the only planet in our solar system that happened to be formed in the "Goldilocks Zone," or the mildest orbit around the sun that allows for life to form.
If this is true, then perhaps there is another solar system out there somewhere in which there is a planet similar to Earth in another solar system's "Goldilocks Zone" that also contains life. Nevertheless, no evidence of such life has yet been observed. Even the simplest electromagnetic signal (radio wave signal) has not been found from anywhere in space that resembles any kind of intelligent life form.
Well, anyway, I thought that this information was pertinent to the topic.