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| Thread ID: 146255 | 2018-06-09 00:40:00 | Weird Science: Another Easter Island mystery solved | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 1450348 | 2018-06-10 13:05:00 | In answer to you, dugimodo, I point you to this: en.wikipedia.org |
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| 1450349 | 2018-06-10 21:52:00 | White population assuming that their way of doing things is universal . :banana Even Easter Island has controversy & disagreement surrounding what happened What you never hear from self righteous westerners , is the huge number of the population taken by the west as slaves . That had a massive impact . Also , westerners coming in , & taking the best land for farming, westerners slash & burning what forest/bush/tress that had left (for farms) But no, lets blame those damn savage natives instead . |
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| 1450350 | 2018-06-10 22:04:00 | The problem with the Fermi/drake pardox is too many assumptions . We know bugger all about whats actually out there (planet wise) and have no idea how many planets could support life & for how long, so how can we possibly infer when we simply are guessing numbers . millions of years of life on earth, but only bugger all years of life capable of picking up a screwdriver. How can we assume that life in the universe isnt all mainly blobs of slime or aquatic life . Ive yet to see a dolphin or fish capable of building a rocket . |
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| 1450351 | 2018-06-11 01:28:00 | The Easter Islanders were not headed in the right direction at all building lots of massive statues facing out to sea in an attempt to appease their Gods, gain favour and have the Gods deliver goods and equipment like they saw on the occasional ships that came in sight. When the Europeans finally landed for real and the natives saw the wealth of goods and equipment they realized their Gods had failed them and began destroying the statues. In the process of building the statues they used all the resources like trees for rollers etc, over populated ended up eating each other as their "civilization" collapsed. This is the lesson to be learned from Easter Island. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1450352 | 2018-06-11 01:35:00 | As for the Fermi Paradox, we are in no way unique, we were not put here by God as some sort of test, because we are here we can deduce that we exist because the Universe is able to produce what you see around us, animals, trees, biological systems and all the rest, if it can happen here there is no reason to assume that it won't happen in other places as well, of course it will, so why haven't we been visited? It's written in the Bible that within us are the seeds of our own destruction, maybe more true than false if the Global Warming scenario is a direct consequence of high level human activity in an attempt to get off-planet. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1450353 | 2018-06-11 02:21:00 | If my writing seems a little garbled it is simply because I am trying to put a lifetimes worth of reading and knowledge into as simple text as possible including only the most salient information, be as succinct as possible, it is up to the reader to read around the subject. Picture is worth a thousand words: i.redd.it |
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| 1450354 | 2018-06-11 02:33:00 | Also: www.jesswondering.com LOL |
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| 1450355 | 2018-06-11 05:55:00 | Like the first one. :thumbs: Ken :banana |
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| 1450356 | 2018-06-11 09:36:00 | Also: www.jesswondering.com LOL Kerbals through the ages. |
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| 1450357 | 2018-06-12 03:51:00 | The idea that there might be life on other planets is not very scientific. It assumes that randomness and probability have a say in things. But why should we assume that? We have just ONE example of life on a planet and it's poor science to derive randomness and probability from one instance And we don't know how life started. We're saying that some unknown process probably happened on some other planet?... yeah right There is a third non-scientific component, which I won't describe in detail as it's a bit more subtle. It arises from us choosing a question about "life" because that is something important to "us". Why should the rest of the world treat that question with the same importance and bother to provide a yes-or-know answer... There is a fourth non-scientific component. It is that randomness hasn't been proved to exist anywhere. Each individual world in the "multiverse" is deterministic... Many people like the idea of life on other planets so they bend the rules of science to make the probability of it a valid question. It's a bit like religious people liking the idea of a deity and making up spurious arguments to support it |
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