March 13, 2013

• number 42 and the meaning of life

  The premise of alien life is not a question of or if  it exists at all, it exists no doubt outside earth. as was recently confirmed by the fossilized meteor from mars last year. the rock itself was discovered a decade or so ago and it has taken this long to finally admit/confirm that yes it had microbial life and originated from mars. this roughly 4.2 billion years ago, whereas life as we know it came into being 3 billion years ago.personally, i love stuff like this.it is what i live for.to me it is almost as much fun as trying to figure out how our species ancestors survived and existed. they would most certainly classify as alien life and intelligence as any typical space creature. it is interesting really, we humans only became redundant and predictable when we became sapiens. before that it is a pretty varied spectrum and quite mysterious. the advancement of communication that would precede a ritualized form of burial as practiced by neanderthal, but having no other forms in physical state other then the artifacts of their stone technology remaining is mysterious as is the spread of homo erectus , while using only one form of tool the hand axe, in all climates. things like this are still within the realm of human mindset and it is more of a how or why then a what type of question. but life elsewhere? oh yea believe it. there is no rational reason to think otherwise. which given the modern vantage and our discovery of countless planets. most people are satisfied with this idea, they are too far away and too primitive (most likely) to be a concern.

   however for me, it is a matter of time frame and the reference point we look at it. i am quite conditioned to think in insurmountable frames of time. just the other day i was explaining to my friend how , most of the time no matter where i am, i am imagining the state of the earth at that spot at a given epoch. i went on to describe how where the region that we both live in was an inland sea that had these columns of plant life that would be more then 20 or 30 feet high, as if it were an underwater dense forest really. there was a massive amount of life around, fish and insects, i pointed at the ground and said and even the last remaining post Cambrian trilobites, some incredibly huge with one that looked like a carpet with whiskers would be right there. i cant help it, i love it so much , it just happens. that era was roughly 480 million years ago.offhand there are few remaining representatives left from that time, the sturgeon being one of them.still living and still existing in the lakes and in the ocean. something like three species are left. incredible to think of,the earth , at this point.so time and reference are a big part of how a person approaches the concept of alien life in the universe.

   towards the big bang, which is really just an easy way to explain a phenomenon about the universe coming into being and not necessarily the actual  event, weird things were happening. the concept of a big bang is descriptive of what happened when the universe existed, it is  way of describing, that everything existed at once. basically, as the universe expanded , everything went with it. so, think of a balloon being filled with air. the actual balloon is the edge of the universe, inside is the existence. i find everyone, including myself has a hard time picturing this. but try to imagine time,space, matter,everything including the physical laws coming into instantaneous existence and existing instantly to the expanding edge of the universe.there is nothing, the darkest of dark outside the balloon universe, but inside, contained and expanding as fast is everything else.so basically we have this happening even now, as the farther it expands the more the nothing becomes reality and existence. when it all first started, things were obviously different. in the sense that time and space were smaller and well, things just happened at a faster rate relativistically speaking. as a result the first thing a person who can at least conceive this understands is potentially every galaxy that exists may very well have had countless species that evolved and reached sentience probably many times and then vanished or moved on.

   so time reference is certainly a consideration. more so, if you can visualize this then imagine that the space we see, for the most part, the stars and galaxies, probably don’t exist or have long since moved out of our sight. we are seeing things farther back then earth’s existence now. which means that in reality a good amount of those objects aren’t really there.it is like the after image of something moving very fast. we can see the blur of effect, but the creator in reality has moved on long ago.this is fascinating and somewhat funny to me. cause it means that the sky at night that we see, is not really there. the map we have for places way beyond our reach is flawed. i have often wondered how come NASA hasn’t exactly stressed this point.astronomy is the keenest of archaeology when understood in this aspect.

   so life, with so much having happened already , most surely exists outside the earth and probably has been long gone since earth came into being. this doesn’t mean that there is no chance of life near earth. it just means that anything is possible, literally.one of the things i have noticed is the need to make life obey earth and its life. they talk about a cradle orbit and always are looking for planets that are similar to earth as candidates. this however is not even close to the reality of what is truly out there. such a limited view creates the concept of us being precariously unique easily.however, the real problem is not if life exists, it is the matter of expanding the conditions required for life.which is where i personally have the most fun. as it stands, when one approaches the concept of life, it turns out that pretty much everywhere can potentially have life. this statement usually creates a funny sense of metaphysical new age sensation in people. they will nod and say , yes there is a ‘energy’ which remains nameless or named that embraces life in the universe. however, this is not exactly what i am saying. what i am saying is more fun.more conceivable.

   when that archeo microbiologist produced the ‘alien’ life substrate in the salt lake of California, many people were not really aware of what was really happening. it actually was a very well timed curve ball. you see, it was announced previously roughly a few months beforehand that NASA was going to announce something awesome. we all thought that basically they were going to come clean about titan. a moon at Saturn, which incredibly most likely has life. it is one of those we know it without saying type of things that you see Hollywood actors do when making an ‘in-joke’ about the establishment. aside from the curious conspiracy theory aspect regarding the mysterious malfunction of the Cassini probe when it finally reached the moon with one of its transceivers (the left monitor) which was blacked out for a about 15 min or longer, then before we could figure out what happened it just magically came on perfectly ok and been working ever since. ( the conspiracy being that some higher -ups wanted to get a look at what was being sent before the rest of the world would, like a pre-emptive pg -rating). there remains the fascinating paradox of titan itself. which has methane rivers and ethane and countless amino acids in the atmosphere. what i love is the fact that water is lava there. the land is water, volcanoes of water exist there and what is really trippy is the concept that the atmosphere gets thicker as you go higher not lower as it does on earth.in the end all that NASA will admit to is that it is definitely a perfect representation of what the earth was like just before life appeared. though in a way i cant blame their position in this one. by saying the methane was created by physical chemical reactions they have trapped themselves into a no win situation. since they have to demonstrate how methane can exist naturally and therefore solve the world’s energy crisis or admit that there is life which as happens on earth through metabolic process creates methane in the ocean. you see it is a catch-22. so when that announcement was supposedly supposed to come clean on the very real possibility of there being life there, they threw in the arsenic based dna microbe from California. knowing that after a  few years they would be able to denature that claim easily from alien down to extremophile adaptation.the lady has not exactly been proven false in her claim. she has just openly said that the methods the labs who are trying to disprove it are using the same or valid research as herself. however, she is not really out to prove herself right, which was criticized by a few people wanting to believe. in other words , it was a beautifully executed curve ball which resulted in exactly what NASA had intended.
   
   my scepticism of NASA is probably obvious at this point. i have no choice and am disheartened by NASA’s seemingly hubris defiance to allow the human race to grow beyond the confines of the earth. so many of us would love to have the true and real hope of life outside the earth. it would give us faith and a reason to continue. there is a form of security in knowing that we are not unique and that in the end of things we are a true function of the universe. it makes us feel safe. however due to the church and other religious institutions it has been hard as hell to get anything out to the public. NASA fears what would happen if the religious people had to accept that they are not the only kid on the block and so they are forced to constantly renege on many fascinating discoveries. the first was the actual viking landing on mars made in the 70′s. the designer of the three tests for presence of life to this day swears that his method was true. he has spent his entire life from that moment,  in a  true and valid scientific method, reproving the findings of the probe. basically, one of the tests he had proved positive and constant reproduction of the tests here on earth have produced positive. however NASA continues to deny this. when the two rovers were launched recently, the inventor of the original life form test said that he cant wait to see his own lander’s findings confirmed. things were looking rosy till that horrible event about the stupid video that resulted in the embassy being attacked. up to that time, NASA was stating it was looking for life as part of it mission. either ancient or presently existing evidence. that religious video and the resulting violence and demonstrations worldwide may have caused NASA to change its tune. because they began to claim they were looking for the possibility to support life on mars.slight change in vernacular, creating an easy rhetorical escape route. meanwhile, as i said, we already know there was life on mars. the meteorite i talked about above pretty much confirmed and proved it. heck it even gave it a time stamp. imagine , how funny it is to see today, headlines in the science news that life has existed on mars due to whatever they been doing with the rovers. as if this was news.
   
   this is the way that things like this get hidden you know. people don’t pay attention to science news because they think that this is like school. that basically whatever NASA finds or for that matter science discovers is a separate classroom. technically it is not. it is real and actual history.as profound a human event as any other historical text. but such manipulation by the corporations and higher ups exists that people don’t get the connections. this explains many things that exist today when it comes to how connected we feel to true human progress. it also explains how, last year a British official in the parliament declared that it wasn’t really no longer an issue about the gene splicing resulting in human /animal hybrids that were estimated to be existing in the rounded number of a known 145 living specimens. he said that they have to figure a way to control it. shocking isn’t it? it wasn’t the fact there was human hybrid with animals that was the concern, apparently this is yesterdays news, it was how to control it. the first thing that comes to my mind is, how in the hell did this happen? well, now you know. the continuing opposition of religious institutions playing scapegoat and the overt techno-babble to discourage a common person from investigating science, hidden in journals with exasperating long titles and latin-esque names works pretty good. which makes the normal person believe they have to have a degree to have an imagination. honestly if this was true, in any way, do you think that lorenzo’s oil would have been discovered by his father? a construction builder?
   
   but it works. it works wonderfully . which is why when i try to inform people that there is roughly four places we are pretty sure that the possibility of life existing in our solar system is reduced to a rhetoric debate and not a sound proclamation they don’t get what i mean. the places that may have life are fascinating, hence the debate.venus,mars, two moons at jupiter and a moon at neptune plus titan. the environments are radical and it is the stuff of imagination. i love it immensely. venus is fascinating in the fact that the life there is most likely sulphur based. but imagine this, the compression of the atmosphere is so strong that the wind on the surface of venus is only a few miles per hour. as a result you can see impact craters from the time of the one impact on earth that resulted in the ending of the dinosaurs, remain in pristine condition on venus. there is no wind erosion and no real change of the craters. this along is stunning to think about, but what is really neat is the fact that the atmosphere gets thinner as it goes up and that basically there is definitely a point where thermal and elements are pretty good to support life. the fact that yes, they have found trace of amino acid in the atmosphere of venus only tantalizes more. imagine this, a lifeform that lives in the air. when we are informed that venus is considered a sister planet to the earth. that there is a very strong possibility that at one time it was potentially bearing life . well, it just becomes a matter of debate doesn’t it?

   neptune’s moon triton , has a possibility of life but is perhaps the most coldest place in the solar system. the same theory behind this moon involves jupiters moons. where the geothermal concept of water being liquid below an ice crust is applied. this of course creates a kind of theoritical dyson sphere concept. where the life would live in a finite space. it would be huge in it’s beginning then through adaptation and evolution become inredibly smaller. to maximize space and territorial proficeincy. the whole idea here is, as i stated above. it is not really a question of if there is life out there. it is a matter of expanding what the conditions required for it are. which, if you accept that the universe is constantly changing and therefore the premutations of matter under physical law create simply more refined and conditioned states of the matter , via chemical and physical. well, it just doesn’t make any sense that there isn’t. i don’t really go into a big discussion about the individual places because that is like telling you guys a movie plot before you see it. however, i hope some of you will be piqued to investigate some of the places i mentioned. more correctly to the idea of this writing though, you should consider the fact that amino acids were found on even comets. this has created the whole concept that maybe life on earth is the result of a comet strike on earth. so possible, they are actually considering this as the source of the first mass extinction. i love it when the plot gets juicy, don’t you?

   the fun idea is that if you expand the conditions, then lif eis possible anywhere even on the moon. since at a given latitiude the sunlight is degrees less and there is water present on the moon. you never know. which just makes it all the more fun doesn’t it?

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