starmartyr

starmartyr t1_jbp55p9 wrote

In 1971 on an episode of the Dick Cavett show, the guest was Jerome Rodale. Rodale was a health guru who claimed he was going to live to 100. During the interview, Rodale slumped back in his chair and made a snoring sound. Cavett allegedly quipped "are we boring you Mr. Rodale" only to find out shortly afterward that he was dead. The episode never aired and the tape has never been made public.

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starmartyr t1_ja4ynfb wrote

It isn't really a religious conflict. There are two groups fighting over the same piece of land. The groups are identified by different religions but they aren't fighting over religion. A similar conflict was The Troubles in Ireland. It was Catholics against Protestants but they weren't fighting about religion.

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starmartyr t1_j7gz1d5 wrote

It could also be doing its job perfectly. It reads a bunch of signals and points out the ones that look weird. A human then examines these signals to see if there is something to be learned from them. This is useful since we're constantly being bombarded with radio waves from all over the universe. Having an AI sort through them and tell us which ones are interesting is a good tool to have.

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starmartyr t1_j6cp14w wrote

There is the panspermia hypothesis. The idea is that microbial life could somehow be ejected from its home planet by something like a meteor impact. So you have a rock floating through space that contains a dormant single-cell organism. It floats around space for millions of years until it eventually lands on a planet with a habitable atmosphere. The organism evolves over millions of years and eventually, the planet is covered in diverse life forms. That could have happened on Earth. While this theory is interesting it doesn't do much to answer the question of the origin of life. It just passes the buck to somewhere else in the universe.

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