US Politics on Yik Yak | The universe is 99.9999999999999% inhospitable to life. And only 43% of the Land on Earth is hospitable to humans, (12% of the earth since its 71% water) How is this helpful at all lmao

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The universe is 99.9999999999999% inhospitable to life. And only 43% of the Land on Earth is hospitable to humans, (12% of the earth since its 71% water) How is this helpful at all lmao

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Anonymous 6d

I’m no Christian but the first statement is cap, we can’t claim to know that at this time, we know way too little to make that assumption

Anonymous 6d

10-17 million years after the big bang, the universe was in a “habitable epoch,” where the entire universe was, on average, warm enough for liquid water to exist. Any rocky planet would have been warm enough to support life then, even if it was very distant from a star. The modern universe is extremely inhospitable compared to what used to be

Anonymous

#1 6d

I mean, unless you can find a form of life that proliferates in the dark, cold, interstellar and intergalactic vacuum of space then there’s no way that percentage is budging even an inch. Every single planet in the universe could be hospitable to life and it still wouldn’t budge.

Anonymous

#2 6d

To act like we know for certain that such a life form doesn’t exist is rather bold of us tho isn’t it? We know so little about the universe

Anonymous

#1 6d

No, it’s not. Life, by definition, must proliferate. Proliferation requires energy, which is at an all-time low in the intergalactic vacuums. Not to mention that there is literally no matter to use to proliferate with out there either. A form of life that could thrive in intergalactic voids would be in the realm of science fantasy, not any sort of theory that can be taken seriously.

Anonymous

#3 6d

Not to mention that in the future, the universe may become more habitable again than it is now thanks to red dwarf stars calming down as they age.

Anonymous

#2 6d

Lots of creatures evolve to live in low energy environments, lots of science fiction ends up being not so fictional. To each their own but I personally don’t claim to be so sure

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Anonymous

#1 6d

No, lots of creatures evolve to *survive* low energy environments. The vast majority of even microscopic organisms slow down their metabolic processes and wait for energy to become available again. Energy and matter are the basic building blocks of literally all possible baryonic life, and there is no physical way that life could thrive in an environment without neither. An environment which, mind you, makes up the overwhelming majority of the universe.

Anonymous

#1 6d

Without either** And not science fiction, science fantasy. I think we’re all in agreement that the chances of The Force existing are astronomically low (pun not intended). Life that thrives and reproduces in a literal intergalactic vacuum is in the same realm of fantasy.

Anonymous

#2 6d

I mean call it what you want, fantasy and science fiction are both fiction. Based on what we know now I agree with you but I’m not going to go so far as to claim that our understanding couldn’t change dramatically in the future.