[meteorite-list] Alien Life - We are the proof!

[Becky and Kirk]

Great post Eric----tres bien! 
You said it better than I tried to!!
Kirk.......:-)
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From: "Meteorites USA" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:05 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Alien Life - We are the proof!


> Hi List,
> 
> Ok, Now we're getting somewhere. Why I didn't see the aliens for all the 
> humans I don't know. Kind of the forest for the trees scenario I guess. 
> Which just goes to show that life does in fact exist elsewhere. Our own 
> existence proves it. We are that life, we exist therefore other life 
> must exist as well. Looking at our own planet from outside our own 
> galaxy, instead of saying life is "out there somewhere" why didn't we 
> look back at ourselves?
> 
> Maybe because we've never left our neighborhood. In the history of human 
> kind, knowledge is relative. Meaning that it's relative to local 
> environment and experience. Too many times has human kind been locked in 
> the box of their own interpretations of their local environment and the 
> knowledge of their immediate surroundings. We've always assumed that 
> everything must somehow center around ourselves. Most humans who've ever 
> lived have never ventured past the realms of their own comfortable 
> little worlds. Our tiny personal section of the world is what we know 
> and we tend to base our interpretation of the unknown on our own biased 
> local knowledge. It wasn't until recently (the past few thousand years) 
> that human kind has started to look outward and beyond our own home for 
> answers.
> 
> We've only very recently (geologically and universally speaking) begun 
> to explore the world of meteorites and to study the composition of our 
> own solar system. Not only can meteorites tell us what our solar system 
> is made of, but they can tell us how old it is, and whether the 
> possibility of life exists beyond our own little neck of the woods. All 
> known meteorites are not even a minute fraction of the mass of our own 
> planet much less the massive amounts of material floating around in our 
> own solar system, or our entire galaxy, or the universe. How many 
> planetary systems are in each galaxy, and how much material is floating 
> around out there that we "don't" know about? How many unknown minerals, 
> and chemicals have we yet to discover? We're assuming that everything is 
> pretty much the same throughout the universe chemically. I ask you this. 
> How can we state that unequivocally? We can't.. There are billions of 
> species of life forms on out planet. How can we say with certainty that 
> there is nothing else out there? We can't.
> 
> We are the answer to our own question of whether life could survive in 
> the desolate universe. If we can survive, so can other life. There is NO 
> arguing that. If you believe in us, you MUST believe in other life out 
> there whether they be little green aliens or carbon based microbial 
> lifeforms or anything else we would define as life.
> 
> Our very existence proves it. Or does it? Can someone point out a flaw 
> in the logic of this thought process? Maybe this is linear thinking but 
> honestly maybe I'm too tired right now after being up all night and 
> can't think of one.
> 
> I'd be curious to see what people think about that.
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
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