2 ms·
There are so many impossibly complex factors and unknowns regarding how life and the universe works that this type of speculation seems odd to me. The reality i
by root_axis 8y ago
There are so many impossibly complex factors and unknowns regarding how life and the universe works that this type of speculation seems odd to me. The reality is, we don't know how life would or could adapt to any of these differences, or how likely other differences or anomalies we are simply unaware of might have countered or exacerbated various knock-on effects. It's simply guessing.
- ethbro 8y agoIt is. But it's a very important guess. In the same way game theory makes guesses about nuclear standoff strategy.
- Pharmakon 8y agoThe critical nature of the guess doesn’t in any way improve our ability to make it accurate or useful. Bad assumptions are bad assumptions, regardless of the stakes. We have a sample size or just one, and precious little good information. Now, in a couple of decades that will probably have changed and we’ll have better data, but until then there’s a real masturbatory quality to discussions involving extraterrestrial life.