What is so special about Earth? Why life here and nowhere else?

cause drugs wont grow on any other planet

Who said there wasn´t life on other planets?

Nasa?

Heh, heh, heh, hmm...

We might just be a statistical anomaly. A freak natural occurrence. After the big bang, we won the cosmic lotto!

Because the greatest President in the history of the world was bron here!

(Am I good or what?)

We know nothing about whether there is life or not in the whole universe. However, Earth seems to be the only planet with life (as we know it) in this solar system and it is truly strange how it shines like a gem teeming with life among the (apparently) stone dead dust- and gasballs around us.

Ever heard of the drake equation?

Besides I would say the earth is quite unlucky to have the likes of us inhabit her. I think earth got the shaft so to speak. At least my dog is cool.

What is special about Earth is that it is a prison planet that has been quarrentined until we learn to live together in harmony.

Fat chance that will happen soon.

Peace, light, and luv.

well put iitwii.

The drake equation is just brain gymnastics. We don´t KNOW anything for sure about life elsewhere, but it is very likely that there is.

I don´t think that life is a result of random chemical processes that just happened because there was this lucky combination of the right radiation and the right chemical soup.

Some other forces are involved, but that is just my feeling.

Lack of evidence is NOT evidence of lack!
We DO NOT KNOW that there is no other life elsewhere. All we know is that we haven´t found it ... YET! We have no proof that there is no life in our own solar system, much less the rest of the universe. There "might" be life in the clouds of Venus (Not impossible, but not very likely.). There "may" be life underground on Mars (IF life got started there, there´s a good chance it is still there, but buried.). There is a "good chance" there is life on Europa (Under a mile of ice, there is an ocean of liquid water 40 miles deep.). We have barely started exploring the Solar System and we´ve only had proof of extra-solar planets for about 10 years. It is way too early to rule out the existance of extraterrestrial life!

Agreed AC402

Point is... by no means are we special. That is the most positive way I can put it.

If there was no life else where then why would we bother thinking that there is?

paradoxical is it not. hhmmmmm

Like I said, we do not KNOW for sure about life elsewhere, meaning that we have not met face to face, officially with life forms from other planets.

But I am nevertheless pretty certain that there IS life elsewhere, we just have yet to meet it (officially at least).

humans

The Holy Quran states that the universe is filled with life and on planets that are similar to ours.

Logic also leads one to believe that there must be life on other planets throughout the universe.

Because this is the only place where the guys who developped the original DOOM engine are living...

I LIKE DOOM 3

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAA

Bring the bad guys on baby (and bring Bush along with ya)

:dubya:

From a Christian perspective, I find it hard to comprehend that God made so many planets, stars, solar systems and galaxies, just so we would have decorated skys. If they are just for decoration then why did he put some so far away that we can´t even see them. And more obviously, why did he put it in our hearts to search the skys for distant relatives?

Also, one of the laws of nature that God instilled in us and our world is that of learning. God has great wisdom that must have been learned from somewhere. He values learning very much apparently and so there must be a number of his past learning experiences out there somewhere. We are modled after he so we can learn a lot about him by looking in upon ourselves.

Even if I get killed, I did show him where it hurts most... IN THE ARSE

hihihi

By the way : he´s coming to Belgium.
I am living in Belgium...

Any ideas ?

Nah,

this is way off topic. I´ll start a thread about it

No, seriously :

I do NOT believe in any way that this is the only planet in the universe supporting life.

I don´t know if there are other planets where there is (intelligent) life in the way we define intelligent life on our planet.

However, if you take into account that every single building block of life as we know it is available at virtually any place in the universe, I think it is very logic to conclude that development of life (read : the building blocks falling together in such way to generate a lifeform which is capable of living long enough to reproduce itself) is only dependant of environmental conditions and time.

As it is proven that their MUST exist planets like ours throughout the universe (comparable environmental conditions), I assume that their MUST be life in the universe comparable to life as we know it. It is possible it does not exist in our lifetime, but it surely has existed before and it surely will exist in the future. And if humans here on our planet are clever enough not to destroy our planet, there will certainly be a moment on which we will have contact with other intelligent lifeforms (if those lifeforms will call us intelligent is off course another question :) )

GreetZ,
BuRn

No, seriously :

I do NOT believe in any way that this is the only planet in the universe supporting life.

I don´t know if there are other planets where there is (intelligent) life in the way we define intelligent life on our planet.

However, if you take into account that every single building block of life as we know it is available at virtually any place in the universe, I think it is very logic to conclude that development of life (read : the building blocks falling together in such way to generate a lifeform which is capable of living long enough to reproduce itself) is only dependant of environmental conditions and time.

As it is proven that their MUST exist planets like ours throughout the universe (comparable environmental conditions), I assume that their MUST be life in the universe comparable to life as we know it. It is possible it does not exist in our lifetime, but it surely has existed before and it surely will exist in the future. And if humans here on our planet are clever enough not to destroy our planet, there will certainly be a moment on which we will have contact with other intelligent lifeforms (if those lifeforms will call us intelligent is off course another question :) )

GreetZ,
BuRn

AC 4:32 - I´m not religious myself but that´s a very well put statement from the religious point of view.

It makes a change to see reasonable, rational christians on this board, instead of the mad fundies that usually rant and rave on evry thread.

Thanks for that.

Thanks AC 5:02

"It makes a change to see reasonable, rational christians on this board, instead of the mad fundies that usually rant and rave on evry thread."

I used to be one of them! I even went by the AV named Christain. I have learned a lot in the last couple of years. Actually I think I´m addicted to learning but so far it hasn´t been a problem. I love science, especially biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy. They all keep me in awe of Gods handywork.

The more you learn, the more you realize just how little you know. Here´s a good example for this thread:

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field
[link to antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

There are more inhabitable planets in the universe then grains of sand on every beach on earth.

Good question. The Devas said they were here when the planets were still proto-suns. They just ´picked´ it. Why?
Distance from Sun? Size? Minerals?
"Yes,minerals.A home base of operations."2IC

And they are using other planets here as well,no mention of another solar system.

The iron/nickle content?

"Utilizing electromagnetism.Looking ahead pal."2iC