RE: Earthlike planet discovered!
September 30, 2010 at 7:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2010 at 7:37 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 30, 2010 at 1:37 pm)Rayaan Wrote: I guess we're not that special after all.I could make the same arguement just on Earth isofar as us being 'special.'
Still, I very much doubt if there is any other planet with beings as sophisticated as ourselves. Which alien would ever discover that E=mc^2?
But there is no reason for there not to be an intelligent species in the universe.
(September 30, 2010 at 1:37 pm)Rayaan Wrote: It might be a difficult thing to adapt to the new environment. So, I prefer to stay on this earth.Who is this 'we' you speak of? You can die on this planet. The universe is going to be around for billions of years longer than this measily little blue dot is going to be around and humanity would be stupid to remain here forever.Born here and we shall die here.
Such to the effect that all of the greatest hits of the Darwinian Awards can remain on this planet when it finally bites the big one because I'm sure those'll be the people who deny science its just due.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
