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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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 03 2014, @03:19PM
This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night.
It's also the kind of stuff that I have completely figured out after I eat a handful of funny mushrooms. Unfortunately, all that hard won enlightenment is gone by morning.