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We're All Extraterrestrials!

by thunderbird
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Comets Hitting Earth Started Life On Earth

""It is fascinating to consider that the most basic biochemical building blocks that led to life on Earth may well have had an extraterrestrial origin," study co-author Richard Mathies, of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement."

This means that your dog is an alien! And so are you!
  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    That's cool, TB, but I do prefer the way Carl Sagan put it, that we're all made of star stuff.

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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      That's cool, TB, but I do prefer the way Carl Sagan put it, that we're all made of star stuff.

      Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Star Stuff - YouTube
      Yeah, that sounds nicer than "extraterrestrial byproducts."
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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Originally Posted by thunderbird View Post

        Yeah, that sounds nicer than "extraterrestrial byproducts."
        Especially that "byproducts" part. Eww.
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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      That's cool, TB, but I do prefer the way Carl Sagan put it, that we're all made of star stuff.

      Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Star Stuff - YouTube
      That was the best-ever documentary on the history of the Universe and us ever.
      Would have loved to have had the opportunity to attend one of Carl Sagan's classes, or, at least a lecture.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

        That was the best-ever documentary on the history of the Universe and us ever.
        Would have loved to have had the opportunity to attend one of Carl Sagan's classes, or, at least a lecture.
        Totally agree. Along with Cosmos, there was another really good program in the same vein. I thought it was called Galactic Odyssey, but I can't find anything about it so maybe I'm misremembering the name.
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        Originally Posted by lcombs View Post

        That was the best-ever documentary on the history of the Universe and us ever.
        Would have loved to have had the opportunity to attend one of Carl Sagan's classes, or, at least a lecture.
        I think that was really my introduction to Sagan. I'd heard little blurbs here and there. But that was my real introduction to him. Years later I read his novel "Contact". He was way out there - I think it comes with the field itself. My Astronomy prof was way far out there, too. Love earth sciences.
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    Always knew there was something strange about me.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    I suggest you read a short story by Gerald Kersh called "Men Without Bones".

    I first read it when I was about 13, and it's stuck in my mind ever since.

    It's available here: MEN WITHOUT BONES-PAGE 1 . Excuse the crappy web design, or copy and paste the text into notepad or another word processor. It's only about 7 pages long, but is worth the effort to read it.
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      Originally Posted by whateverpedia View Post

      I suggest you read a short story by Gerald Kersh called "Men Without Bones".

      I first read it when I was about 13, and it's stuck in my mind ever since.

      It's available here: MEN WITHOUT BONES-PAGE 1 . Excuse the crappy web design, or copy and paste the text into notepad or another word processor. It's only about 7 pages long, but is worth the effort to read it.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Well I knew my ex was. Extremely jovian, for that matter.
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    • Profile picture of the author Riptor
      Of course we are aliens, we are the only species on this planet that destroys our own environment!

      But there again...

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        It's interesting, from a "history of science" perspective, how stories that go around, come around.

        This "new experiment", so recently performed, and published only last week in The Astrophysics Journal has already attracted some attention in scientific circles by being very little (if anything) more than a repeat of an experiment originally performed by Orgell, in Cambridge, in the 1950's.

        I'm "just saying" ...
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        Originally Posted by Riptor View Post

        Of course we are aliens, we are the only species on this planet that destroys our own environment!

        But there again...

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        No we aren't. Dominant species always strip their environment when resources are bountiful - they over produce and strip the resources, then either migrate or die out.

        We're just the first species that has had the capability to adapt to every climate so were able to reproduce like mice all over the planet so now we have no place to migrate to. We've stripped resources so completely that we're killing off most other species, too.

        If it weren't for the tree ants in the African Savannahs the Elephants would have already stripped out what is left of their environment, too. The lack of suitable environment, though, is compliments of those nasty little sapien creatures.
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