LUCA

[Guest guest]

Hi Freyja,

 

Thanks! Amazing post! Astrobiology is a really interesting matter. I

always try to not forget, that if for a couple of bilions of years

some bacterias wouldn´t have created what we call atmosphere, I

wouldn´t sit here typing posts.

 

Strange! I tend to consider the manifestation of life as a kind of

fortuitous and accidental event. I doubt the reproductibility of it

(our known lifeforms) in no matter what kind of artificial or

natural environment.

 

Sceptical, oh yes, but open to every form of suggestions.

 

Would we actually be able to recognice other lifeforms as such? So

to say, outside the radius of our senses?

 

Perhaps everything we see is already dead, it is perhaps just a

reflection, for a while, in each other, like residual echoes until

it disappears,

 

 

for ever.

 

 

 

Kip Almazy

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta , " kipalmazy " <kipalmazy>

wrote:

>

> Hi Freyja,

>

> Thanks! Amazing post! Astrobiology is a really interesting matter.

I

> always try to not forget, that if for a couple of bilions of years

> some bacterias wouldn´t have created what we call atmosphere, I

> wouldn´t sit here typing posts.

>

> Strange! I tend to consider the manifestation of life as a kind of

> fortuitous and accidental event. I doubt the reproductibility of it

> (our known lifeforms) in no matter what kind of artificial or

> natural environment.

>

> Sceptical, oh yes, but open to every form of suggestions.

>

> Would we actually be able to recognice other lifeforms as such? So

> to say, outside the radius of our senses?

>

> Perhaps everything we see is already dead, it is perhaps just a

> reflection, for a while, in each other, like residual echoes until

> it disappears,

>

>

> for ever.

>

>

>

> Kip Almazy

 

Hi Kip,

 

Everything we look at is already dead, sort of. If you, for example,

look at an apple two meters away from you on a table, what you see is

an image of how that apple looked in the past (a very recent past,

but yet [similar to when you look at a star; that star is an image of

how the star looked years ago, because light takes time to travel

from the star to your eyes]). If another person also looks at the

same apple standing so that the distance between the other person and

the apple is also two meters, then you see the same past image as the

other person sees. But if the other person moves so that the distance

between the apple and the other person is greater than two meters and

you remain two meters away from the apple, then the apple you will

see is a more recent image of the past apple than the other person

sees. Then the other person takes a few step closer to the apple,

grabs it, and begins chewing on it. You say: " Hey, how dare you, that

was *my* apple! " The other person looks at you with a kind of guilty

expression: " I'm sorry, it's just that this experiment made me so

hungry... "

 

/AL