[meteorite-list] Correction to

[Sterling K. Webb]

Hi, Paul, List,

> In "The Aliens are Silent Because 
> They are Dead," I wrote [summarizing]:
> "The aliens are silent because they're 
> dead. Life on other planets would 
> probably go extinct soon after its 
> origin, due to runaway heating or 
> cooling on their fledgling planets."

It seems an obvious cultural expression 
of the contemporary obsession with 
climate change for someone to assert 
that climate change would destroy ALL 
life on ALL planets capable of supporting 
it, whether the number of potential life-
supporting planets is dozens, hundreds, 
thousands, or more.

It's like a soap opera --- planets die 
young, they say. We anthropomorphize 
our science. James Lovelock proposed 
the Gaia Hypothesis (planets enter into 
a supportive symbiosis with life). Peter 
Ward proposed the Medea Hypothesis 
(planets try to destroy any life that 
arises on them).

A challenge to this new hypothesis is 
how one could explain the survival of 
life on Earth for billions of years: why 
aren't we dead? And why didn't it happen 
long ago? Are we the only one to survive?

Unlikely. But... where IS everybody?

That question arises from a lunchtime
discussion at Los Alamos in 1943. A 
tableful of the brightest minds in science
agreed that there must be other intelligent 
life in the universe, then Enrico Fermi 
asked. "Well, where IS everybody?" and 
people have been trying to answer that 
question ever since.

Great question.

"If the Universe is Teeming with Aliens, 
Where is Everybody?" by Stephen Webb, 
provides 50 of the proposed answers to 
Fermi's Famous Question since 1943. A 
PDF of this book is available:
http://book4you.org/book/511674/c8066c
The download link is at the bottom of 
that page.

I guess that "climate change" is Answer 
No. 51.

Sterling Webb
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In "The Aliens are Silent Because 
They are Dead," I wrote:

"The aliens are silent because they're 
dead. Life on other planets would 
probably go extinct soon after its 
origin, due to runaway heating or 
cooling on their fledgling planets."

The correct URL for the first link should be:

http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-e
xtinct

 >Charles H Lineweaver Publications -
 >http://goo.gl/4PPGuK and http://goo.gl/1H99Rs

The corrected URL for the first link should be:

http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~charley/publications.html
or https://goo.gl/W30KtK

Yours,

Paul H.

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