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JonnyBGoode
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17 Aug 2007, 2:35 pm

In Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, we go out looking for intelligent life elsewhere, and eventually find it. Only to discover that it's us.

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From a Christian standpoint, aliens could exist, or not.

Schrödinger's Aliens! :lol:


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21 Aug 2007, 10:20 pm

JoeCapricorn wrote:
I personally say that the Universe is too large to not contain intelligent life elsewhere.


I think our solar system is too large for only one planet to contain intelligent life. Look at Mercury, it get loads of energy from the sun; some of that has to be converted to life. Venus has a thick atmosphere and almost the same gravity as Earth. Mars has less of an atmosphere, but that only means more radiation to cause mutations thus accelerating evolution! Quite a few of the moons around the gas giants have ammonia and methane, heck! that's all you need to start life! Pluto isn't considered a planet anymore but if it had life it would be really far out!

So you see, there has to be life elsewhere in the solar system!