Statistically, there must something somewhere out there.
are we alopne
i dooubt it/that
negativity abouds
wit the dissontented
tbh
no sympathy
makes you nuts
If we do interpreted signals from space, knowing the vast distance between stars, those lifeforms could likely be extinct.
Statistically, there must something somewhere out there.
However:
For an overwhelming portion of time life existed here, it was essentially bacteria. Only for a very brief period of history did humans exist. (The majority of human existence Homo sapiens were hunters and gathers.) In the scope of the cosmos, human technology was just a brief momentary blip.
Even if the earliest broadcasts travelling at the speed of light, these signals could have only reached a small portion of Milky Way Galaxy.
How many other galaxies are out there?
Likely, if there is extraterrestrial life, it is most likely something like a bacteria.
If we do interpreted signals from space, knowing the vast distance between stars, those lifeforms could likely be extinct.
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Fifty years ago, palaeontologist John Ostrom proposed that birds evolved from small, bipedal dinosaurs rather than from tree-dwelling animals. He reframed the debate about the origin of flight by focusing on its biomechanics. His ideas were later tested and supported by work — including a 2003 study on chukar partridges (Alectoris chukar) — which showed that wing movement can create a vortex that helps the animal to run up vertical slopes. (Nature News & Views | 8 min read, Nature paywall) Reference: Quarterly Review of Biology paper (from 1974) |
Yes, indeed.How plants (orchids specifically in my current pondering) who don't have eyes and can't "see" the way we understand it evolved to look like specific animals in order to trick then into pollination. They even give off the same sex hormone scent to deceive their pollinators even more.
And, how creatures who do have eyes and see the way we understand it do the same. Orchid Mantis for example. Lil dudes aren't intentionally being born looking like a flower, they just evolved that way.
Nature is a fascinating friggin thing. I'll ponder that shiz all day.