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Life On Earth Might Not Be So Special After All

posted by janrinok on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30PM   Printer-friendly
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: 1) by SuperCharlie on Monday March 03 2014, @01:46PM

    by SuperCharlie (2939) on Monday March 03 2014, @01:46PM (#10134)

    So to bring it back on topic, I can easily imagine that alien cvilizations could have existed in the past and now be (effectively) gone.

    Im thinking more along the lines of a billion years or more being enough time for a sun to consume a planet, galaxies colliding, planets colliding, etc.. catastrophes on the scale of complete obliteration well before we climbed out of the ooze.