KC's Favourite

Feb 25 2013, 03:33 AM

I have had no sleep yet I'm wide awake.

What sorcery is this

Richard Feynman

Feb 18 2013, 02:50 PM

Bean The Dynamite

Jan 11 2013, 06:21 PM

Anyway, to get onto this topic, I'm not saying that it is exactly true, but you need to think, there are thousands of different types of elements in the universe. The Periodic Table is about 1 out of probably over a billion different elements this universe contains. Don't underestimate scientists or astronomers because what we know that they can do to discover new things is only a portion of what they do.

Not to sound like an ass in correcting you, buuuuuuuuuuut... There's probably not all that many more elements than the ones we've already discovered. Perhaps a few more, but they're EXTREMELY unlikely to be found naturally in the universe. Once the atoms start to get so big, they become extremely unstable and quick to decay and fall apart. A fair lot of the atoms on our Periodic Table, the heaviest ones, are synthetic: not found naturally anywhere, but interesting to create in a lab for the purpose of examining certain atomic principles. Most of the universe is made up of the lighter elements, like hydrogen, helium, oxygen, and carbon. Which, interestingly, are the building blocks of life as we know it (except for helium). It would seem that it's not statistically unlikely that life similar to Earth's exists somewhere out in the cosmos, when its constituent elements and molecules are actually startling common.

But enough of me rambling about that. I think this is vaguely interesting, if only for poetic purposes. Scientifically, I can't think of any importance to pin on the center of the Milky Way tasting like raspberries and smelling like rum. I'm more interested in how important those molecules are to the formation of life. And even still, it seems unlikely that life would come about in such an odd environment (a cloud of dust in space!), mainly due to reasons of a lack of sufficient heat and pressure, which may or may not be conducive to the formation of organic molecules, I'm not sure. Don't take my word. Regardless of my inability to properly articulate a reason, I think it's doubtful we'd find life there.

Neo Metallix

Feb 18 2013, 11:43 AM

A famous Sherlock Holmes quote is this: It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Now there is a huge difference between the two and honestly I feel like they're trying to find stuff based on theories rather than actually looking at the data and following up with theories.

It seems like scientists now days have theories and try to find facts to support it. When you're looking for something you can always find some sort of way to prove it whether it is the whole picture, true, or not...

Rain the Vaporeon

Feb 15 2013, 02:01 PM

Mephistopheles

Feb 15 2013, 01:57 PM

Rain the Vaporeon

Feb 15 2013, 01:47 PM

Hey, Apparently I'm a Tea ....

What flavor are you?

And don't even try it, I know what I typed.

No, I mean Really. I'm a Tea.