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on Monday March 03 2014, @01:30AM
from the its-life-Jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.
from the its-life-Jim-but-not-as-we-know-it dept.
AnonTechie writes:
"What If We Have Completely Misunderstood Our Place in the Universe ? A Harvard astronomer has a provocative hunch about what happened after the Big Bang. Our universe is about 13 billion years old, and for roughly 3.5 billion of those years, life has been wriggling all over our planet. But what was going on in the universe before that time ? It's possible that there was a period shortly after the Big Bang when the entire universe was teeming with life. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb calls this period the 'habitable epoch,' and he believes that its existence changes how humans should understand our place in the cosmos. The full article is here"
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Grishnakh on Monday March 03 2014, @05:31PM
Have you forgotten about all the UFO sightings, and the incident in Roswell? They've been visiting us and observing us.
However, have you noticed that no one claims to have seen a UFO in recent years, or have been abducted? There was a big rash of that activity in the mid-to-late 20th century, and then if fizzled out.
The answer is simple: the aliens came and observed us, and decided after a while that we're a bunch of assholes not worth their time. So they've left, and likely posted beacons outside our solar system warning other interstellar travelers to avoid us.