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Only the planets in our solar system look like stars to the untrained eye.
And until lately planets in other systems didn't look like anything because
we couldn't find any.  But now we are finding them in increasing numbers,
knowing what to look for after the finding of the Jupiter size planet Tau
Bootes C circling at the equivilant disatnce of Mars.  To date there are
dozens of planets now recorded outside our solar system and hundreds of
potential ones in the process of being observed.  To make the assumption
that we are the only intelligent life in the universe is not only egocentric
but slightly absurd.

Our primary building blocks of Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, and Nitrogen are
not the most common (excuding hydrogen) or even the most stable arcitecture
to build life on.  Science has postulated that sulphur or silicate based
life forms are more stable and hardy than our structure and we would be much
more likely to find them in the universe than beings like ourselves.

A common fallacy in logical arguments is to base your premise on the lack of
factual data.  i.e. God exists because there is no information proving he
doesn't or the inverse.  To suppose that there is no life in the universe
based on the mere scratching of information we are able to observe is
ridiculous.

Although I do agree to assume there IS life merely on the information we
have is also flawed, to set your mind absolutely on a unproven concept is
foolish and narrowminded.


(crisisgal) wrote in message <6jknbo$ic4@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>...
>In <355D6ACD.2347AFDE@flash.net> cara and trey <tercel90@flash.net>
>writes:
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>>JOHN R BAKER wrote:
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>>> I can state unequivocably that there is no life on any of those
>stars. Life
>>> arises on *planets*, not on stars.
>>>
>>> (crisisgal) wrote in message <6j23fd$iqr@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>...
>>>
>>> >
>>> >If you can look into the sky on a clear night and see all those
>stars
>>> >and firmly and finally believe that there is life on none of them -
>it
>>> >seems to that you have no imagination or you have a mind closed by
>>> >fear.
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>>  Cutting hairs with that statement.
>
>Yeah - hardly productive to any kind of discussion.  But I'll bite - in
>the nighttime sky to the untrained eye - stars, suns, planets all look
>like what we learned as kids are "stars in the sky".  Now can we move
>on?
>
>Crisis
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