Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
Pythagoras eat your heart out.
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Inhabited Planets
- Thread starter Neo Deist
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Pythagoras eat your heart out.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
Oh, dang. LOL!. I'm more used to type mathematical terms than religions.
Katzpur
Not your average Mormon
You remember correctly, but I'm going to add just one quick statement here. You could attend LDS worship services for your entire life and never once hear the word "Kolob" mentioned. I can't believe how non-Mormons have taken a couple of mentions of this word out of hundreds of pages of LDS scripture and have built an entire theology around it. It certainly wouldn't be difficult to find a random, strange-sounding word somewhere in the Old Testament and try to incorporate it as a central tenet of Judaism, but nobody does that, do they?
Skwim
Veteran Member
I merely broke off the date, not our tender relationship. It happens all the time around here, and not only with myself.
Only if the fellow values my opinion so much that it matters. But thank you for the compliment.
?????? Boy, I've got to bone up on these throws coming in from left field.
Make you a deal: I'll make an effort to be funnier, or smarter, or both if you make an effort to edit your script a bit. Wading through lengthy, polysyllabic prose ain't going to win friends or influence people.
jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
Oh, there are lots. Take surface temperature stability. Not once in billions of years has the majority of the earths surface fluctuated outside the tiny range of liquid water. How often does that happen?
I don't know and neither does anyone else.
Tom
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
Well technically if the creationists are right, your statement was correct...God did make angles as well as angels.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
I'm not so sure about that. There's been several serious ice ages where large portion of the planet was frozen and the majority of life died out.
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
All the angles eat pi.Well technically if the creationists are right, your statement was correct...God did make angles as well as angels.
Skwim
Veteran Member
Boy, I don't know. It never occurred to me. I just Googled Kolob and there it was, along with a lot of Mormon/Kolob connections.
From what I've read there are many such planets.
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Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
LOL! Google's predictive spell check searches...Boy, I don't know. It never occurred to me. I just Googled Kolob and there it was, along with a lot of
Mormonism/Kolob connections.
In Mormonism? Or BSG?
What?
You think there was a period when the majority of the earths surface was below freezing for more than a few weeks?
Uh, no. The coldest of the ice ages still left most of the planet temperate most of the year. There has never been a period when a huge chunk of the earths surface wasn't in between 5C and 60C. That is a tiny speck of the temperature spectrum between the solar face of Mercury and Pluto. And that is a small part of the difference between the surface of the sun and deep space, which account for the huge majority of the universe.
Tom
You've never heard of the Snowball Earth theory?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Some argue that it happened more than one time, and that the entire surface was covered with ice. This wasn't at all like the recent ice ages, according to the theory.
You never read of "snowball earth" when the entire surface of earth was frozen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Was it really? Dunno. I'm old but not THAT OLD.
Demonslayer
Well-Known Member
There better be, each dead Mormon gets their very own private planet. It's a pretty sweet deal if you ask me.
Allah give you 72 virgins, which is pretty sweet, but some of them are probably ugly and virgins aren't very good in the sack. Yahweh gives you a cloud and a harp and some wings. Flying would be pretty cool I guess, but harp music is super annoying. But a whole planet? Now that's a giving, loving God!
Skwim
Veteran Member
Yes,
No I didn't. They aren't the same so I removed the image.
Looking into Kolob a bit, and noting the nearness of the two, heaven must be some kind of physical place.
Pearl of Great Price/Abraham
3:2-3
2 And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;
3 And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.
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Rick O'Shez
Irishman bouncing off walls
But life has proved to be very adaptable on this planet. What about those creatures living in complete blackness around deep-sea vents for example? There are sweet little crabs among other things.
Skwim
Veteran Member
There are lots of potentially limiting conditions. We have a sample of 1 at the current time. So, we don't at this time know which, if any, of these potential limiting conditions actually are limiting conditions. There are lots of arguments and counterarguments, and precious little real data to base any suppositions on. Most of the key variables have to do not with the number of possible planets that could support life, but with complex organisms and the evolution of sentient manipulative beings similar to humans that could create technology.
On earth today, there are three groups of creatures that seem to have developed complex brains, and therefore may be sentient: great apes, cetaceans, and elephants. A number of other creatures have developed appendages that could allow manipulation of the environment. Humans and the other great apes appear to be the only ones that have so far resulted in technology and civilization. Whether or not those observations can be generalized to the rest of the universe is debatable.
Future discoveries on Mars and several of the moons of the outer planets might give us more insight about the origins of simple life, and maybe even about complex life, but it will be quite a while before we can say anything definitive about these--many decades at the very least, perhaps centuries. And it may be a long time before we can detect evidence of life on planets around other stars, but several scientists are optimistic about being able to build the telescope technology one day--perhaps within a few decades.
So maybe we'll eventually have a sample of greater than 1 to work with. But not today.
On earth today, there are three groups of creatures that seem to have developed complex brains, and therefore may be sentient: great apes, cetaceans, and elephants. A number of other creatures have developed appendages that could allow manipulation of the environment. Humans and the other great apes appear to be the only ones that have so far resulted in technology and civilization. Whether or not those observations can be generalized to the rest of the universe is debatable.
Future discoveries on Mars and several of the moons of the outer planets might give us more insight about the origins of simple life, and maybe even about complex life, but it will be quite a while before we can say anything definitive about these--many decades at the very least, perhaps centuries. And it may be a long time before we can detect evidence of life on planets around other stars, but several scientists are optimistic about being able to build the telescope technology one day--perhaps within a few decades.
So maybe we'll eventually have a sample of greater than 1 to work with. But not today.