h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Great WHO TOLD THE SCIENCE CLUB ABOUT THIS!!! lol

Of course we can only speculate about what ET intelligence would be like, but I suppose it's inevitable bureaucracy and HSE equivalents come with sophisticated societies.

AHS Aliens Health Society!

How would you pronounce that?

the ahs's

Since time is restricted to the understood dimensions of aforementioned provender, words like prior, before and such probably infer a cause-effect relationship that may not have any relevance outside our understood concept of physical laws which are limited to the universe we are in. Or something like that. We need to think of it as a process because we are mortal and time is running out for all of us.

Outside of time, a stone falling off a chair is not something that happens, it just *is*.

infer or imply?

Presuppose.

Yeah the evil old HSE trying to stop companies from making money in a way that kills and hurts people.

Never mind the fact that fatalities and serious injuries go down wherever you have empowered safety reps ensuring adherance to health and safety. Those dead workers are such whingers....

Chill FB. I wasn't being serious

I found this in Richard Dawkins's book:

"The spontaneous arising by chance of the first hereditary molecule strikes many as improbable." p.164

Dawkins confirms that life did arise spontaneously by chance.

Dawkins asserts it he doesnt confirm it.

There is evidence that suggests he's right and he is probably basing his assertion on what the evidence others have put forward suggests but as far as I know there is no one of serious scientific reute claiming to know to the level of "confirming"chance as the exclusive source for the origin of life.

However all the theological evidence despite being contradictory is more importantly completely unsupportable by an empirical standard.

Therefore given that no one can disprove the or even begin to undermine the assertion that life is a chance happening while all the various fairy stories fall apart under any close scrutiny chance looks like being the most probable answer improbable as it may seem.

As CConana Dyle said, once youve eliminated the impossible whatever is left no matter how improbable must be the truth.

one love

....the big SPLAT!!?? (post 369)

As if that's not enough, some scientists say the Big Bang theory, based on red shift, is wrong (something to do with wrong data).

no... for reals ..haha.. do you have a link for that BIG SPLAT thing?

oh i found it.... hmm the date on it is april 10, 2002.... frightfully close to april fools day....

I'll have to get back to you 'cos we can only get BBC websites here

U CAN ONLY GET BBC TOO?

Yep.