Re: The Limit of the Human Mind
Actually its not impossible to draw an alien.
In the universe there are trillion upon trillions of solar systems, each with varying numbers of planets, stars, moons, etc. Whats to say that in out of all that, there can't be a planet like earth? "aliens" there would grow from similar conditions, eventually evolve to adapt to the earth-like environment, and maybe even someday produce humans.
Of course, it depends on the course of evolution whether or not humans could possibly appear. If a meteor or w/e had not killed the dinosaurs, humans would never have appeared.
We define organisms as being able to reproduce, use energy, etc. and search the universe for those types of things because we know for a FACT that life as we know it can exist with those specifications. Thus, it makes it a hundred times easier to look for earth-like organisms and confirm alien existence then try to figure out if gravity is sentient or not.
Its creative to suggest that black holes and gravity could be forms of life, because no one can prove or disprove it. Physics call them laws of nature, but they're only theories right? Even if the laws occur over and over again in the same way, there is no way to prove them as universally true, so we call them theories. Yes, we take these theories to be true, but wouldn't it be cool if black holes were actually giant monsters? Why not?
As for even the existence of aliens, whoever says aliens cannot exist are being terribly ignorant. As i said before, there are an unimaginable amount of planets out there. If you looked at a portion of a sky with a telescope, you would see one or two stars, but there would be literally millions of planets invisible to you, but still existing in that patch of sky.
Even though its not 100%, i'm willing to believe that out of all those planets, there is at least some form of "life" that exists, be it a single bacteria or huge flying dragons.
Actually its not impossible to draw an alien.
In the universe there are trillion upon trillions of solar systems, each with varying numbers of planets, stars, moons, etc. Whats to say that in out of all that, there can't be a planet like earth? "aliens" there would grow from similar conditions, eventually evolve to adapt to the earth-like environment, and maybe even someday produce humans.
Of course, it depends on the course of evolution whether or not humans could possibly appear. If a meteor or w/e had not killed the dinosaurs, humans would never have appeared.
We define organisms as being able to reproduce, use energy, etc. and search the universe for those types of things because we know for a FACT that life as we know it can exist with those specifications. Thus, it makes it a hundred times easier to look for earth-like organisms and confirm alien existence then try to figure out if gravity is sentient or not.
Its creative to suggest that black holes and gravity could be forms of life, because no one can prove or disprove it. Physics call them laws of nature, but they're only theories right? Even if the laws occur over and over again in the same way, there is no way to prove them as universally true, so we call them theories. Yes, we take these theories to be true, but wouldn't it be cool if black holes were actually giant monsters? Why not?
As for even the existence of aliens, whoever says aliens cannot exist are being terribly ignorant. As i said before, there are an unimaginable amount of planets out there. If you looked at a portion of a sky with a telescope, you would see one or two stars, but there would be literally millions of planets invisible to you, but still existing in that patch of sky.
Even though its not 100%, i'm willing to believe that out of all those planets, there is at least some form of "life" that exists, be it a single bacteria or huge flying dragons.
(don't get techincal on me...its jsut an example...i'm well aware of the other complications.....like the poisonous sulfuric gases....)