On 12/16/2023 2:40 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator.
His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He assembled the first physical messages sent into space
which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
That means a space nut.
'beyond Earth's atmosphere' means he knew he wasn't allowed to study...earth science.
There are no other samples to comare it with so why bother learning earth science????
There is no organic soil anywhere else in the universe...
You people are not allowed to study...earth science.
any trees on Mars? or Venus?? ...anywhere else???
You people are not allowed to study...earth science.
Don't get mad now that you found out it was Velikovsky who said that,
not Sagan.
On 12/16/2023 11:08 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/16/2023 2:40 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator. >>> His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He assembled the first physical messages sent into space
which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
That means a space nut.
'beyond Earth's atmosphere' means he knew he wasn't allowed to study...earth science.
There are no other samples to comare it with so why bother learning earth science????
There is no organic soil anywhere else in the universe...
You people are not allowed to study...earth science.
any trees on Mars? or Venus?? ...anywhere else???
You people are not allowed to study...earth science.
Don't get mad now that you found out it was Velikovsky who said that,
not Sagan.
Never heard da name Velikovsky...not even worth googling it.
My info comes from book Cosmos...you probably forgot who wrote it or
wats in it for sure.
Your info, perhaps. But was that quote from Cosmos also, and verbatim?
Or did you just say it from your memory?
On 12/17/2023 12:05 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/16/2023 11:36 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/16/2023 11:08 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Never heard da name Velikovsky...not even worth googling it
Velikovsky was a cool guy in fact :) A keen sense of business, using
cro-magnon features in the American societies. It got him a lot of
money! Even in 1990s, at workplace when someone wanted to bring up a
"scientific" fact about the world, they'd tell me with enthusiasm how
they enjoyed reading of "Worlds in Collision" (or something) by
Velikovsky. Americans were still reading those early 1950s stuff!...
more than 40 years after they appeared. So the guy was smart and knew
what he was doing. And did it perfectly well. Hahahah :))
Sagan was too good for that level of people (much higher in number
compared to Sagan's readers), and couldn't sell well among them.
Velikovsky had placed himself right at the correct position, targeting
the largest part of Americans that read books at all. Very clever way
of making a lot of money.
This Archie here isn't even a fart compared with Velikovsky, although
is trying to do the same. In fact, I don't think he has had any of his
ebooks read by even by one person :) So describing him as "fart"
indeed is an overestimation. Big strategic mistake, costing him a lot
of time wasted. He chose the wrong subject. Americans aren't
interested in physics and math. As simple as that.
Velikovsky, on the other had, cleverly made his claims about the Earth
and solar system carefully look similar to Americans' religious
beliefs! So everybody who knew something about Bible would get
immensely curious to see what this "scientist" was saying. He said
everything in a way to give it a scientific tone. Very clever.
Sagan, had another formula for making his books successful, which
satiated the appetites of much fewer people in the USA.
Sagan was very successful in selling his books too, but nothing compared
to Velikovsky. He was so pissed at Velikovsky for giving bullshit to
dumb people, making them even more removed from reality, and making 50 times more money in doing that compared with himself. So there was this intense resentment between the scientist Sagan, towards the businessman Velikovsky hiding himself inside a scientist's shell.
Very interesting situation :)
Velikovsky was no stranger with true science (he had several degrees in various fields), but was trying to make a lot of money, not to educate people about anything. He just used the "science" theme because he knew
it would work pretty well when making it look like something close to religious predictions crap. His formula was pure gold.
In fact, I just checked, _all_ his books are still in print and being
newly printed. They're still selling like hell. 70 years after first
coming out and making him rich throughout 1950s and 60s and 70s, till
the last day he lived; and they're still pouring money into pockets of whoever that owns the rights to his works. A testament to the fact that American society has not taken one step away from total ignorance and isolation.
His books are written for Sheep. For the exact way through which Sheep
look at "science". And sheep, American people have been and are, and
will be in the future as long as their isolation from reality is
maintained.
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
On 12/17/2023 3:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
I no longer teach at Harvard.
you're going to have to...read a book.
What subject did you teach at Harvard?
On 12/17/2023 5:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/17/2023 3:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
I no longer teach at Harvard.
you're going to have to...read a book.
What subject did you teach at Harvard?
How To Start Your Own Mafia
I bet they believed everything you said, with that accent :)
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as
saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
It's just you are not at a level of understanding 'what a tree is'.
Here is the full quote from Carl Sagan:
"Congealing and warming, the Earth released the methane,
ammonia, water and hydrogen gases that had been trapped
within, forming the primitive atmosphere and the first oceans." --Carl
Sagan
'methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen' come from a 'tree'.
On 12/17/2023 4:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as >> saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
It's just you are not at a level of understanding 'what a tree is'.
Here is the full quote from Carl Sagan:
"Congealing and warming, the Earth released the methane,
ammonia, water and hydrogen gases that had been trapped
within, forming the primitive atmosphere and the first oceans." --Carl Sagan
'methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen' come from a 'tree'.
So you admit Carl Sagan didn't say the primitive atmosphere and oceans
came from trees. You did.
Volney wrote:
On 12/17/2023 4:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:So you admit Carl Sagan didn't say the primitive atmosphere and oceans
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as >>>> saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
It's just you are not at a level of understanding 'what a tree is'.
Here is the full quote from Carl Sagan:
"Congealing and warming, the Earth released the methane,
ammonia, water and hydrogen gases that had been trapped
within, forming the primitive atmosphere and the first oceans." --Carl
Sagan
'methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen' come from a 'tree'.
came from trees. You did.
'the Earth released the methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases' is another word for...trees.
Sagan is not allowed to say the word "trees",
so he broke down the
composition of trees and
wrote that instead...but methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen
means...trees!
the first oceans came from trees (science lingo for trees is methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases)
On 12/19/2023 12:45 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
Volney wrote:
On 12/17/2023 4:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:So you admit Carl Sagan didn't say the primitive atmosphere and oceans
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as >>>> saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
It's just you are not at a level of understanding 'what a tree is'.
Here is the full quote from Carl Sagan:
"Congealing and warming, the Earth released the methane,
ammonia, water and hydrogen gases that had been trapped
within, forming the primitive atmosphere and the first oceans." --Carl >>> Sagan
'methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen' come from a 'tree'.
came from trees. You did.
'the Earth released the methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases' is another word for...trees.
You just made that up. No mention of trees.
Sagan is not allowed to say the word "trees",
And who disallowed him from using the word "trees", and why? Again,
that's just garbage you made up.
so he broke down the
composition of trees and
wrote that instead...but methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen means...trees!
Those compounds form naturally in the early solar environment, no trees needed. Look at the gas giant planets.
the first oceans came from trees (science lingo for trees is methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases)
Again, more garbage you made up.
Your attempt to create the most absurd "theory" possible, that trees
formed the oceans, is admirable, but still doesn't beat even more absurd "theories", such as the entire universe is some cosmic plutonium atom,
as well as a few other beauts. The judges give you a 9 in effort!
Volney wrote:
On 12/19/2023 12:45 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
Volney wrote:
On 12/17/2023 4:04 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:So you admit Carl Sagan didn't say the primitive atmosphere and oceans >> came from trees. You did.
On 12/16/2023 11:30 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Carl Sagan didn't use the word 'tree', he used it's composition: hydrogen and methane.
He is not allowed to say the word...'tree'.
What!... You son of a gun. So he didn't say "tree" and you quoted him as
saying "tree."
That explains it then :)
Hahhha :)
It's just you are not at a level of understanding 'what a tree is'.
Here is the full quote from Carl Sagan:
"Congealing and warming, the Earth released the methane,
ammonia, water and hydrogen gases that had been trapped
within, forming the primitive atmosphere and the first oceans." --Carl >>> Sagan
'methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen' come from a 'tree'.
'the Earth released the methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases' is another word for...trees.
You just made that up. No mention of trees.
Sagan is not allowed to say the word "trees",
And who disallowed him from using the word "trees", and why? Again,
that's just garbage you made up.
so he broke down the
composition of trees and
wrote that instead...but methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen means...trees!
Those compounds form naturally in the early solar environment, no trees needed. Look at the gas giant planets.
the first oceans came from trees (science lingo for trees is methane, ammonia, water and hydrogen gases)
Again, more garbage you made up.
Your attempt to create the most absurd "theory" possible, that trees
formed the oceans, is admirable, but still doesn't beat even more absurd "theories", such as the entire universe is some cosmic plutonium atom,
as well as a few other beauts. The judges give you a 9 in effort!
Are you forgetting that all the fishes in the ocean come from the leaves
on the trees?
Volney wrote:
Your attempt to create the most absurd "theory" possible, that trees
formed the oceans, is admirable, but still doesn't beat even more absurd
"theories", such as the entire universe is some cosmic plutonium atom,
as well as a few other beauts. The judges give you a 9 in effort!
Are you forgetting that all the fishes in the ocean come from the leaves
on the trees?
On 12/19/2023 1:41 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
Volney wrote:
Your attempt to create the most absurd "theory" possible, that trees
formed the oceans, is admirable, but still doesn't beat even more absurd >> "theories", such as the entire universe is some cosmic plutonium atom,
as well as a few other beauts. The judges give you a 9 in effort!
Are you forgetting that all the fishes in the ocean come from the leaves
on the trees?
Your attempt to beat the cosmic plutonium atom absurdity by saying fish
are leaves was valiant but still falls short. The judges, however, now
award you a 9.5 in effort.
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator.
His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He assembled the first physical messages sent into space
which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
That means a space nut.
On 12/22/2023 11:13 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus?
This "quote" doesn't make sense. Are you again playing around with what
Sagan said or didn't say? :)
Did you get your quotes, all, from Cosmos or did you use earlier stuff published by him as well?
Cosmos was printed in 1980, a few years _after_ Russian probes on Venus reported what was going on and that the possibility of life in those condition were zilch.
On 12/22/2023 11:13 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus?
This "quote" doesn't make sense. Are you again playing around with what
Sagan said or didn't say? :)
Did you get your quotes, all, from Cosmos or did you use earlier stuff published by him as well?
Cosmos was printed in 1980, a few years _after_ Russian probes on Venus reported what was going on and that the possibility of life in those condition were zilch.
On 12/23/2023 7:02 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
I remember reading a scifi novel of the 50s where the hero (USAn of course) was about to wipe out the Venusians.
Modern Humans knew even back then how to make money using these Sheep.
But no one I know has come close to Velikovsky in terms of the scale and thoroughness with which he exploited these Sheep, using only scifi!
The generation of Modern Humans before Velikovsky, were essentially
doing the same thing but writing "Freudian psychology" scifis. Americans
were thinking they were reading scientific works :-))
Hahhhaha :)
God what Sheep these cro-magnons are.
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/23/2023 7:02 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
I remember reading a scifi novel of the 50s where the hero (USAn of course) was about to wipe out the Venusians.
Modern Humans knew even back then how to make money using these Sheep.
But no one I know has come close to Velikovsky in terms of the scale and thoroughness with which he exploited these Sheep, using only scifi!
The generation of Modern Humans before Velikovsky, were essentially
doing the same thing but writing "Freudian psychology" scifis. Americans were thinking they were reading scientific works :-))
Hahhhaha :)
God what Sheep these cro-magnons are.
Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist.
He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history
Pseudohistory is purported history which:
Treats myths, legends, sagas and similar literature as literal truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory
Is this some kind of a joke?
Controversy reigned when the book's publisher (Macmillan) was forced to tear up Velikovsky's contract ...
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky
The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/23/2023 7:02 AM, Arindam Banerjee wrote:
I remember reading a scifi novel of the 50s where the hero (USAn of course) was about to wipe out the Venusians.
Modern Humans knew even back then how to make money using these Sheep.
But no one I know has come close to Velikovsky in terms of the scale and thoroughness with which he exploited these Sheep, using only scifi!
The generation of Modern Humans before Velikovsky, were essentially
doing the same thing but writing "Freudian psychology" scifis. Americans were thinking they were reading scientific works :-))
Hahhhaha :)
God what Sheep these cro-magnons are.
Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-American psychoanalyst, writer, and catastrophist.
He is the author of several books offering pseudohistorical interpretations of ancient history
Pseudohistory is purported history which:
Treats myths, legends, sagas and similar literature as literal truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudohistory
Is this some kind of a joke?
Controversy reigned when the book's publisher (Macmillan) was forced to tear up Velikovsky's contract ...
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky
Who is the biggest joke, Sagan or Velikovsky?
On 12/27/2023 2:25 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
if there are 6 million mistakes, nature sends somebody to fix the
mistake.
Do you think you, Star, are a mistake?
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/22/2023 11:13 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus?
This "quote" doesn't make sense. Are you again playing around with what Sagan said or didn't say? :)
Did you get your quotes, all, from Cosmos or did you use earlier stuff published by him as well?
Cosmos was printed in 1980, a few years _after_ Russian probes on Venus reported what was going on and that the possibility of life in those condition were zilch.
This post is about the word "perhaps". You're unable to focus.
Do I gotta post the whole book so you can get unfocus again?
"The absence of anything to see on Venus led some scientists to
the curious conclusion that the surface was a swamp, like the
Earth in the Carboniferous Period. The argument—if we can
dignify it by such a word—went something like this:
“I can’t see a thing on Venus.”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s totally covered with clouds.”
“What are clouds made of?”
“Water, of course.”
“Then why are the clouds of Venus thicker than the
clouds on Earth?”
“Because there’s more water there.”
“But if there is more water in the clouds, there must be
more water on the surface. What kind of surfaces are very-
wet:
swamps.
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus? Observation: There was ab-
solutely nothing to see on Venus. Conclusion: It must be covered
with life. The featureless clouds of Venus reflected our own
predispositions. We are alive, and we resonate with the idea of
life elsewhere. But only careful accumulation and assessment of
the evidence can tell us whether a given world is inhabited.
Venus turns out not to oblige our predispositions." -from the science fiction book Cosmos -Carl Sagan
Does that help you understand the word "perhaps"?
PERHAPS
per·haps
/p?r'(h)aps/
adverb
used to express uncertainty or possibility.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+perhaps
Perhaps.
Carl Sagan was a con artist. Instead of saying "possibility", he
would say over and over..."perhaps".
They say that Carl Sagan only wrote one science fiction book, Contact.
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time!
Is it science fiction or non-fiction????
Perhaps it's really a science fiction book.
just a few Quotes from the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan:
In all the galaxies, there are
perhaps as many planets as stars
Perhaps many stars have planetary systems rather like
our own: at the periphery, great gaseous ringed planets and icy
moons, and nearer to the center, small, warm, blue-white, cloud-
covered worlds.
Perhaps some day we will know them.
Perhaps the origin and evolution of life is, given enough
time, a cosmic inevitability.
The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a
Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the
Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments
are attempted on an improved design.
We know from the fossil record that the origin of life
happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the
ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth.
Perhaps there are
many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no
big beasts and vegetables.
Isaac Newton was perhaps
the greatest scientific genius who ever lived.
Perhaps it was
a spaceship of some unimaginably advanced extraterrestrial
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus?
Perhaps there was an engineering failure just at the moment of
touchdown. Or perhaps there is something particularly danger-
ous about the Martian surface.
Perhaps there are large lifeforms on Mars, but not in our two
landing sites. Perhaps there are smaller forms in every rock and
sand grain.
perhaps even many of the same
basic molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids—but put to-
gether in unfamiliar ways. Perhaps organisms that float in dense
planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic
composition, except they might not have bones and therefore
not need much calcium. Perhaps elsewhere some solvent other
than water is used.
Perhaps time itself
has many potential dimensions, despite the fact that we are con-
demned to experience only one of them.
magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control
the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial.
But perhaps more interesting is the question of higher dimen-
sions. Could there be a fourth physical dimension?
I'm not even halfway with these "perhaps"/ uncertainty or possibility
quotes from this just one book Cosmos...
There is nothing in Carls Sagan book Cosmos that is truly non-fiction.
It's ALL science fintion!
magic gravity machine?
dats non-fiction, right? give me a break!
There is a higher fourth physical dimension.'...
That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone!
--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge the unchallengeable.
On 12/27/2023 11:17 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/27/2023 2:25 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
if there are 6 million mistakes, nature sends somebody to fix the
mistake.
Do you think you, Star, are a mistake?
This is Usenet here...
i was sent here to correct the mistakes.
Did one of the mistakes send you here?
The Earth is a mistake.
On 12/30/2023 7:10 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/30/2023 3:15 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
The Earth is a mistake.
The reason why yous don't see another earth is because the Earth is a
mistake.
come on, from dinosaurs to people?
the earth doesn't know what to do.
you weren't suppose to be here...
yous are a mistake.
i don't even know how you got through.
I wouldn't call it a mistake, but a special situation.
Matter can indeed form strange combinations. If one of them happens to
have a simple drive about it for making its own copies as long as the combination and the drive are intact, then a life form has begun and
leads to what you see now.
Life is not even a "special situation." A better description is, "a
silly situation."
On 12/30/2023 7:10 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/30/2023 3:15 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
The Earth is a mistake.
The reason why yous don't see another earth is because the Earth is a
mistake.
come on, from dinosaurs to people?
the earth doesn't know what to do.
you weren't suppose to be here...
yous are a mistake.
i don't even know how you got through.
I wouldn't call it a mistake, but a special situation.
Matter can indeed form strange combinations. If one of them happens to
have a simple drive about it for making its own copies as long as the combination and the drive are intact, then a life form has begun and
leads to what you see now.
Life is not even a "special situation." A better description is, "a
silly situation."
On 12/30/2023 10:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/30/2023 7:10 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
On 12/30/2023 3:15 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
The Earth is a mistake.
The reason why yous don't see another earth is because the Earth is a >>>> mistake.
come on, from dinosaurs to people?
the earth doesn't know what to do.
you weren't suppose to be here...
yous are a mistake.
i don't even know how you got through.
I wouldn't call it a mistake, but a special situation.
Matter can indeed form strange combinations. If one of them happens to >>> have a simple drive about it for making its own copies as long as the
combination and the drive are intact, then a life form has begun and
leads to what you see now.
Life is not even a "special situation." A better description is, "a
silly situation."
what you mean by silly situation...is a gag.
a big universal
highly complicated and
fantastically conceived
pratical joke
being played on you...
isn't it?
You're a silly situation.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:40:11 -0800, The Starmaker
<starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer and science communicator.
His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
He assembled the first physical messages sent into space
which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them.
Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
That means a space nut.
PERHAPS
per·haps
/p?r'(h)aps/
adverb
used to express uncertainty or possibility.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+perhaps
Perhaps.
Carl Sagan was a con artist. Instead of saying "possibility", he
would say over and over..."perhaps".
They say that Carl Sagan only wrote one science fiction book, Contact.
Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time!
Is it science fiction or non-fiction????
Perhaps it's really a science fiction book.
just a few Quotes from the book Cosmos by Carl Sagan:
In all the galaxies, there are
perhaps as many planets as stars
Perhaps many stars have planetary systems rather like
our own: at the periphery, great gaseous ringed planets and icy
moons, and nearer to the center, small, warm, blue-white, cloud-
covered worlds.
Perhaps some day we will know them.
Perhaps the origin and evolution of life is, given enough
time, a cosmic inevitability.
The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a
Great Designer; perhaps some species are destroyed when the
Designer becomes dissatisfied with them, and new experiments
are attempted on an improved design.
We know from the fossil record that the origin of life
happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the
ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth.
Perhaps there are
many other planets that today have abundant microbes but no
big beasts and vegetables.
Isaac Newton was perhaps
the greatest scientific genius who ever lived.
Perhaps it was
a spaceship of some unimaginably advanced extraterrestrial
And if there are swamps, why not cycads and dragonflies and
perhaps even dinosaurs on Venus?
Perhaps there was an engineering failure just at the moment of
touchdown. Or perhaps there is something particularly danger-
ous about the Martian surface.
Perhaps there are large lifeforms on Mars, but not in our two
landing sites. Perhaps there are smaller forms in every rock and
sand grain.
perhaps even many of the same
basic molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids—but put to-
gether in unfamiliar ways. Perhaps organisms that float in dense
planetary atmospheres will be very much like us in their atomic
composition, except they might not have bones and therefore
not need much calcium. Perhaps elsewhere some solvent other
than water is used.
Perhaps time itself
has many potential dimensions, despite the fact that we are con-
demned to experience only one of them.
magic gravity machine—a device with which we could control
the Earth’s gravity, perhaps by turning a dial.
But perhaps more interesting is the question of higher dimen-
sions. Could there be a fourth physical dimension?
I'm not even halfway with these "perhaps"/ uncertainty or possibility
quotes from this just one book Cosmos...
There is nothing in Carls Sagan book Cosmos that is truly non-fiction.
It's ALL science fintion!
magic gravity machine?
dats non-fiction, right? give me a break!
There is a higher fourth physical dimension.'...
That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone!--
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| Uptime: | 10:52:54 |
| Calls: | 9,902 |
| Calls today: | 11 |
| Files: | 13,797 |
| Messages: | 6,343,280 |
| Posted today: | 6 |