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The speed of light and discovering

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The speed of light and discovering
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RE: The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 3:04 am
Almost all extraterrestrial life is microorganisms no doubt.
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RE: The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 3:16 am
(August 11, 2016 at 3:04 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Almost all extraterrestrial life is microorganisms no doubt.

Almost all terrestrial life are microorganisms.
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RE: The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 3:19 am
Absolutely!

Sorry I will amend my mistake to make it more specific:

Almost all planets in the universe with life only contain microorganisms, no doubt.
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RE: The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 4:14 am
(August 11, 2016 at 3:19 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Absolutely!

Sorry I will amend my mistake to make it more specific:

Almost all planets in the universe with life only contain microorganisms, no doubt.

How are you so sure with an example of exactly one?
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RE: The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 9:33 am
Most true extremophiles are bacteria. Even on earth there are environments where pretty much only single-celled organisms can survive. On planets where our sort of large lush habitable zone is not the norm, multi-celled organisms are likely to have a tougher go of it.

Plus, multicellular life on earth is largely made possible by mitochondria, a happy accident so rare that it only happened once in 4 billion years.
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The speed of light and discovering
August 11, 2016 at 2:06 pm
(August 10, 2016 at 10:57 am)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I'm always surprised by people wondering why we haven't found any alien civilizations as of yet.

They took one look at us and decided to hide.

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