This thread is for the more intelligent, any intelligent thoughts can be posted here by the more intelligent amongst us.
The thread is dedicated to bosley (bos) who only wants the more intelligent thoughts posted here.
Imagination is more important than knowledge; Einstein
There may be a lot of life in the universe. If so, its a safe bet that most of it will score lower on the SATs than you.
Just consider the situation on one planet: ours. There are millions of species on Earth. Millions. Among this protoplasmic plentitude, how many species are smart enough to be interesting on the telephone or able to help you with Sundays crossword? Well, theres Homo sapiens, and then theres nobody.
But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!
But he was dyxlexic. What if, when he wrote E=MC2, what he really meant was MC=E2. Modern physics would be knackered!!! Oh yes. Now thats my idea of a fun time!!!!
There may be a lot of life in the universe. Part 2
Is this a momentous fact or not? Is the circumstance that we can look around and find were the brainiest boffins on the planet merely a trivial result of being the first species able to notice? Or is there some reason to think that intelligence is actually a rare and unlikely evolutionary development, and Homo sapiens has lucked out?
This is more than just another good question to bandy about after dinner, between the cigars and the port. It goes right to the heart of our place in the universe. And its also of obvious and critical importance to SETI researchers. After all, were on a fools mission deploying our SETI telescopes if theres no intelligent life out there.
Namreh
sorry for late reply....I HAVE A LIFE...LOL.
a vacuum cannot exist because everything has a vapour pressure ( a few atoms escape from ANY matter all the time ) . neutrinos travel at ( or very close to ) the speed of light so weigh nothing or as close to nothing as makes no odds. every day of your life a billion billion billion neutrinos pass through the average body. the chance of just ONE hitting a body particle in your lifetime is about evens.