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janrinok
on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:30PM
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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Life On Earth Might Not Be So Special After All
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by etherscythe on Monday March 03 2014, @02:12PM
Gun, Germs, and Steel [pbs.org] talked about this very kind of thing - particularly related to why (human) civilization took off in a technology sense in some places, but remains barely above subsistence farming in others. Without the critical availability of certain materials and time-saving techniques that allowed societies to develop specialization and economy of scale, modern chemistry, aerospace engineering, and the internet will never develop. You're back in pretty much the same place if these same resources are used up or destroyed in a major cataclysm.