Chat Thread

[Bernd]

Funny enough, exactly such hypothesis was proposed recently.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482841-the-radical-idea-that-space-time-remembers-could-upend-cosmology/

Regarding Mars, I'm torn on this but I'd put the probability that there was ever any life there at significantly below 50%. So far all the hyped biosignatures turned out to have arisen from inorganic chemistry. But it's not impossible there were some stromatolithes or biofilms.

For more complex alien life, things look much worse. Statistically it should definitely be somewhere out there in this huge universe, but the chance we'd ever discover such is very very close to zero.
https://www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025-planets-without-plate-tectonics-and-too-little-carbon-dioxide-could-mean-that-technological-alien-life-is-rare/

This also means that colonizing space is, unfortunately for Elon, off the table. The next earth-like planet is going to be thousands of ly away.

[Joy]

Mars is garbage, better to inhabit the Gobi high desert or even Antarctica.

Humans are doomed to end eventually, there will be no galactic federation and do you think intelligent life would want us cockroaches?

[Alice]

This.
Though I'd like to watch astronauts fly to mars - and die there. It would teach human hubris a lesson. And what for? What do you do there? There's no business for humans on other celestial bodies. Not even on the moon. We've got robots for that.

[Τamamo]

Alice humor.
I do think there was once microbial life on mars. I just wonder how long it will take to return samples to earth for proper analysis.

[Joy]

This is humor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7M24KrqhBw

[Τamamo]

Moon landing by 2027 deemed unrealistic
https://spacenews.com/nasa-safety-panel-warns-starship-lunar-lander-could-be-delayed-by-years/

[Joy]

I'm not a Musk apologist, but he's commonly late, this is no surprise.

[Alice]

It's all far too expensive and yields nothing. The only inecentive is being faster than the Chinese.
Apollo program cost something like 250-300 billion in today's worth. This year, NASA has a total annual budget of 25 billion.