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Is this what NASA revealed at their press conference?
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Bacteria can and has survived in zero atmosphere space conditions. In 2010 they scooped up some bacteria from an English cliffside and lashed it to the exterior of the iss for over a year. It survived just hunky dory. Bacteria is currently thriving deep within oceanic vents, deeper than we can reliably observe. Also high up in the atmosphere (6-25 miles up) there's bacteria just floating about in below freezing, high-uv, low oxygen environments. My point is that living organisms are assuredly propagating elsewhere in the universe, but like the majority of life on earth it's tiny little specks that are hard to personify Edit: that doesn't mean we can't insult them over the radio.
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Aug 25, 2016 15:18
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If you're thinking about watching the movie Europa, don't. I have only a layman's fascination with space and even I recognized how goddamn stupid those astronauts were. Watch Sunshine instead
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Aug 25, 2016 16:44
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Woden posted:Is Sunshine the one where they get 6 people to save the Earth but don't bother screening to see if any are insane sun worshippers? The sun drove him insane, pay attention
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Aug 25, 2016 17:11
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Woden posted:Is Sunshine the one where they get 6 people to save the Earth but don't bother screening to see if any are insane sun worshippers? Like drat, did you really ask such a dumb snarky question? Like, is Alien the one where they answer a distress beacon without bothering to see if the ship is infested with dangerous aliens??
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Aug 25, 2016 17:21
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Every naysayer about extra terrestrial life is basing their pessimism on the very narrow span of human understanding and it's freaking pissing me off
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Aug 25, 2016 17:31
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Germstore posted:We know certain things about organic chemistry that should be generally applicable to extraterrestrial life. Right, and hypothetical biochemistry accounts for abundant cosmic elements that are scientifically viable to support life, without having to view it first hand. I'd wager we (earth) are roughly middle of the pack when it comes to our development as living organisms. To presume we're the first or only intelligent life in the universe is such a human opinion to hold , because it's simultaneously dumb and hubristic
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Aug 25, 2016 17:56
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If that's so then we need to expand into the galaxy pronto and become the preeminent species we've always known ourselves to be
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Aug 25, 2016 18:16
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The behavior of other civilizations is a fun thought exercise but I always come back to the realization that our amassed understanding of the universe (let alone ourselves) is inconceivably limited. We could very well be inundated with alien anime broadcasts but we're still on basic cable, so to speak
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Aug 25, 2016 18:53
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If in a billion years we're still tethered to our corporeal form I'll be real disappointed
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Aug 25, 2016 19:08
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nigga crab pollock posted:
And it would be tiny like the tardigrade 
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Aug 26, 2016 00:03
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Ivor Biggun posted:, why are they not here yet? Because we're loco ese
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Aug 26, 2016 02:40
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It's indicative of depression that people assume we'll never find intelligent life/intelligent life doesn't exist elsewhere/we'll never leave our solar system
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Aug 26, 2016 18:12
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