Here is What Earth Looks Like from Mars

I think I can see my house, it's the one with the brown door next to the one with the white door. You can't miss it.
No wait, it was just a bit of dried on crème egg stuck to the screen.
 
Why hasn't the Mars Rover captured any shots of three-boobed women yet?
 
Ducman69 said:
That's what she said. But seriously, why are they comparing planets made of rock to big balloons of burning gas? So not the same.
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doesn't really change the relation. looking at the size of universe there are things MUCH larger than us
 
Such fantastic times we live in. Robots we control taking pictures of our planet from another planets surface....I hope we send a maned mission to Mars in my lifetime.
 
We should all already understand that we are insignificant as a species, as is our planet.
 
Ruoh said:
We should all already understand that we are insignificant as a species, as is our planet.
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Until other intelligent life is found we are the most significant species in the universe on the most significant planet.

The universe is quite large and there likely is intelligent life outside of planet Earth, but then again the Earth has millions of species and none come close to matching the intelligence of a 5 year old human being.

Maybe we are are insignificant and other intelligent beings leave us alone because we are so early in our social development, but its also possible that we are very, very unique and significant.
 
weuntouchable said:
Until other intelligent life is found we are the most significant species in the universe on the most significant planet.

The universe is quite large and there likely is intelligent life outside of planet Earth, but then again the Earth has millions of species and none come close to matching the intelligence of a 5 year old human being.

Maybe we are are insignificant and other intelligent beings leave us alone because we are so early in our social development, but its also possible that we are very, very unique and significant.
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that 5 year old is also taught and not just instantly able to do things. We just have a foot up on the rest of the species as far as we know. apes and chimps have been taught to be at least semi intelligence. If we taught enough of them and they were to have offspring maybe they would teach them and over time we would be overran like in planet of the apes lol well... all but that last part. maybe you could get wild chimps that would teach their offspring sign language, would be able to make better use of tools. be able to make use of some human technology.
 
weuntouchable said:
but its also possible that we are very, very unique and significant.
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It took billions and billions of years for the universe to give us this earth; to give us intelligent life; to give us this very moment at [H] so that we may discuss our own significance.. it's kinda fucked up :p
 
weuntouchable said:
Until other intelligent life is found we are the most significant species in the universe on the most significant planet.

The universe is quite large and there likely is intelligent life outside of planet Earth, but then again the Earth has millions of species and none come close to matching the intelligence of a 5 year old human being.

Maybe we are are insignificant and other intelligent beings leave us alone because we are so early in our social development, but its also possible that we are very, very unique and significant.
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By this I know neuroscience isn't your field, so you perhaps you can check up on the 'Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness', 2012. As we now, very belatedly, know, our past definition of 'intelligence' is anthropologically misguided.
 
Ruoh said:
We should all already understand that we are insignificant as a species, as is our planet.
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Cause we're seen so much intelligent life so far. Considering Earth even has life is so far left field from everything we see in the universe. Don't sell yourself short. Consider that anything more then hydrogen was created from stars. Stars can only create elements as heavy as iron in their core, but super nova create heavier elements like gold or lead.

You are a living thinking machine that is made of the remnants of a super nova. That sounds pretty special to me. In fact the earth is made out of rock and metal, so whatever created this solar system was one of those super giant stars that went kaboom. As an inner planet, for it to even have water is considered special.

Size isn't everything.
 
AFD said:
It took billions and billions of years for the universe to give us this earth; to give us intelligent life; to give us this very moment at [H] so that we may discuss our own significance.. it's kinda fucked up :p
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Life is the universe experiencing itself. *puff puff give*
 
Ducman69 said:
Life is the universe experiencing itself. *puff puff give*
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Pass because the last time I puffed (years ago) I was watching Through the Wormhole and the camera started at Earth and kept zooming out and out and out and out and out and AND OUT AND OUT AND I TOTALLY FREAKED OUT!!
 
blade52x said:
Pass because the last time I puffed (years ago) I was watching Through the Wormhole and the camera started at Earth and kept zooming out and out and out and out and out and AND OUT AND OUT AND I TOTALLY FREAKED OUT!!
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..and it zoomed out and out and out and out and out, til you realized that they weren't really stars and clusters of galaxies, but the freckles on Morgan Freeman's face; and then you came to the mind crushing conclusion that Morgan Freeman himself was a symbolic representation of everything that lies outside our known universe; and then the TV show he was hosting wasn't really the show you started watching, but an imaginary metaverse that didn't actually exist at all, but instead, was a world created entirely inside your mind. Amiright?

:eek:
 
Snoflo said:
By this I know neuroscience isn't your field, so you perhaps you can check up on the 'Cambridge Declaration of Consciousness', 2012. As we now, very belatedly, know, our past definition of 'intelligence' is anthropologically misguided.
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By this I see trolling is your field.
 
Exavior said:
doesn't really change the relation. looking at the size of universe there are things MUCH larger than us
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And more importantly the space between the things in the Universe is so large is ranges on the unfathomable. I mean to think when 2 galaxies merge into one another the stars will probably never collide due to all the emptiness between them is pretty crazy.

That's one thing that I don't think I could handle, even if rocket fuel was cheap, and we had rockets easily capable of going to Mars/Moon (which is right next door) just too much in between space. I've always loved heights, whether it's tops of buildings or tops of radio towers, however vastness is something that really bugs me out. Find a hard time swimming in the ocean off a boat just because of the vastness of it all, SCUBA or free swim.
 
sfsuphysics said:
And more importantly the space between the things in the Universe is so large is ranges on the unfathomable. I mean to think when 2 galaxies merge into one another the stars will probably never collide due to all the emptiness between them is pretty crazy.

That's one thing that I don't think I could handle, even if rocket fuel was cheap, and we had rockets easily capable of going to Mars/Moon (which is right next door) just too much in between space. I've always loved heights, whether it's tops of buildings or tops of radio towers, however vastness is something that really bugs me out. Find a hard time swimming in the ocean off a boat just because of the vastness of it all, SCUBA or free swim.
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Then you look at stuff like think of how far Pluto is. For many of us growing up that was the last planet in our solar system (before it was demoted). Now we have Eris (dwarf planet but still a planet) that is 3 times further away than Pluto. Here we had stuff in our solar system that we already needed a long time to get devices out to for taking pictures, now we need 3 times that get to the furthest known planet in our solar system. Between those two are only two other known dwarf planets. So we have this great vastness between the known planets that we grew up learning about and even greatest vastness now between the new ones added in the last 10 years. At 17,000 mph it would take the hubble telescope about 40 years (using the average distance from the sun) to reach Pluto. Which means about 120 years to get to the currently last known body orbiting our sun. and during the last 80 years there it would only pass the orbit of two other known (dwarf) planets. Yup there is a vast nothing out there even "close" to us.
 
So... What they are saying is a Yugo probably won't get you there. Right?
 
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