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What the hell is a Boffin? *** Muffin?
Lakshmi.Aelius said: » What the hell is a Boffin? *** Muffin? Slang for nerd I think... I haven't heard that word since I was 10 wiki - A boffin is a stock character in United Kingdom culture: a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research.
Sylph.Decimus said: » wiki - A boffin is a stock character in United Kingdom culture: a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research. oh, a Boffin. Lye said: » It'd be a nice change of pace to discover even microbial life in a number of places in the universe. To go a tid bit off tangent with this... I've always wondered how creationist would rationalize life on other planets. I mean, we are one planet of two in the "goldilocks zone" of one star out of over a hundred billion stars out of over a hundred billion galaxies. I just find it very hard to believe that we are the only special ones with life on a little rock out there. I mean... I guess you could say "Well God got bored and went and did more stuff, it's why he doesn't pay attention to us any more." Which would bring the transverse argument of "If we're red headed step children, why should we care about him?" and so forth and so forth into more Faustian theology. Well, the best estimate we have for stars in our galaxy is about 200 billion. The kepler space telescope is finding that about 50% of stars in our galaxy have at least 1 planet orbiting it. Even if the odds of a planet to have life on it are 1 in a million and we are only assuming each star that has a planet only has 1, that would mean that there are 100 planets in the milky way galaxy alone with life. That isn't even counting the fact that moons and asteroids can also be environments that can sustain life. And there are millions of asteroids in just the solar systems asteroid belt. Most are to small to sustain life, but there are a few that are more dwarf planets than asteroids that could have water and life in their interior. There is life out there, it is a virtual certainty. The odds of 2 intelligent species existing at the same time, and close enough to actually notice one another, though, are extremely small.
Fenrir.Weakness said: » Lye said: » It'd be a nice change of pace to discover even microbial life in a number of places in the universe. To go a tid bit off tangent with this... I've always wondered how creationist would rationalize life on other planets. I mean, we are one planet of two in the "goldilocks zone" of one star out of over a hundred billion stars out of over a hundred billion galaxies. I just find it very hard to believe that we are the only special ones with life on a little rock out there. I mean... I guess you could say "Well God got bored and went and did more stuff, it's why he doesn't pay attention to us any more." Which would bring the transverse argument of "If we're red headed step children, why should we care about him?" and so forth and so forth into more Faustian theology. God did it. Book it. Done. But he can't make things evolve. I don't understand why they didn't just absorb evolution as something God also designed. Anyway, back on topic.
What Eyrhika said is why I find articles like this so dumbfounding. 500 planets, really? You look at 500 planets and decide we're the only life in the universe? Alien life deemed impossible by analysis of 500 planets |
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