Well done, Centurion that was sensitive and thought provoking. (God I sound like a teacher - have a gold star! )

I have the same points of view as you, Centurion; I personally don't believe in a higher being creating us, and I can't see the conditions for life only occuring on one Planet out of the potential Trillions that may exist.

The true goal of space exploration is to find other sentient life. Finding some sort of bacteria on Mars or Europa would be great, but people want to be able to communicate with little green men and to be able to answer the question of "are we alone?"

I think that we exist purely by chance, but that chance isn't like winning the lottery - it is more like hitting a fish in a barrel. I believe that life is out there, whether it chooses to be found or not.

I think the chance of life finding sentient beings is far lower though; all we have to do is look at Earth. As you said, sentient life has only existed in the last 10,000 years or so, and there has been billions of years since the first lifeforms appeared from the ooze.

In that time, there has been millions, if not billions of species. What is it that made only one sentient and capable of survival? Chance.

Chance made life appear, chance let us evolve concious thought and sentience, and chance has let us survive this long. Who knows what else chance has in store for us? Who knows what chance has done to the Universe...?

ZDarby, I didn't actually make it myself, I got it from the scientific section of the Oxymoron Humour Archives.



I got it from the Product Warning Labels page:



I'm sure you'll like them, ZDarby. The one i'm using for my current signature is pretty much the only one that would fit.

My favourite pages are:
and

Hehe they're all brilliant!

ZDarby Im very glad that you have taken my theroy in concidiration. I have think of it myself. But I really dont have time to engage in some experiments of that sort. Basicly now i have given myself to web design and video prost production. So collage got the third place. My girl is second.
Everything else is... Well, it has to wait.

A agree on all the tings you have said. Expecialy about religion.

One day I will post my theroy of our being on the earth. I think you will like it. We can even go to make a Paramount buy it of us for a show. )

@MOE: COOOL!!! Lots of things to waiste time on!! Thank you. I love it! I'm laughing my *ss off here!! And I have an especially large rump!!!
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@UnDated: Actually, we don't know what the probability of life is. We have guesses -- some of them exceptionally well educated -- but no real knowledge. So any 'conclusion' from these guesses are preliminary at best.

Besides, I don't believe in conclusions. A conclusion is when you decide to stop thinking. That sounds rather snide. I don't mean it to be a pot shot but an expression of opinion. For me, the jury is still out. I have certain faith stuctures but I like to explore outside of them.
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@CCB
I couldnt find the link for that experimetn. But here is something.
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/199 ... light.html
It dosent says anything about matter trough speed of light but it says some nice things everybody should read.

And this is the real brain of the century!

And I must say again he is Serb (or Srbin).

Big thanks to Nikola Tesla!

Veliko hvala Nikoli Tesli!

Велико хвала Ð￾иколи ТеÑ￾ли!

I'm so sorry. Slowing being possible doesn't actually mean accelerating is possible! (Though this experiment does not even mean they have put down the speed of light but they have had several forces to stop the photons which is something completely different. The speed of light is constant!

Nothing in this universe is constant.

how's the speed of light not constant? i thought it was always 186,282.397 m/ps