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Intelligent Life: Total Fluke, Man!

Intelligent Life: Total Fluke, Man!. An illuminating and profound presentation by Travis Bott, Kelsey Buck, and Molly Persky. First, real quick, does intelligent life even exist on this planet?. http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/idiot-41423 .jpg.

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Intelligent Life: Total Fluke, Man!

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  1. Intelligent Life: Total Fluke, Man! An illuminating and profound presentation by Travis Bott, Kelsey Buck, and Molly Persky

  2. First, real quick, does intelligent life even exist on this planet? http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/idiot-41423.jpg

  3. What the other guys might have said… • “Oh, we can’t even fathom the possibilities of other life because there could be cool other creatures with different chemistry and fancy new stuff we don’t understand and yadda yadda yadda…” • But they are SO wrong, and this is why:

  4. We can only know earth • We can’t intelligently hypothesize about non-carbon-based, non-water-dependent life • New possibilities are so infinite, maybe God did just create the earth • Must assume constant laws of science • An earth-like planet is a carbon-based planet, carbon is essential to thought

  5. Carbon essential to thought: • Human intelligent thought from transmission of neurotransmitters • Dopamine, acetycoline, norepinephrine all organic (carbon-based) molecules Biopsychiatry.com

  6. Humans are one in 50 billion… • 1.6 million named species • Estimated 30 million including unnamed • As many as 50 billion species have walked the earth • Only one developed intelligent life • http://www.pbs.org/wgnn/evolution/humans/intlife/2.html?fy

  7. Factoring into Drake Equation… • One of the elements of the drake equation is the possibility of developing intelligent life. • Entering in a fraction of 1/50,000,000,000 in addition to the other fractions yields a very tiny number… www.activemind.com/mysterious/topics/SETI/drake_equation.html

  8. When humans developed… • If the time scale of the earth was a 24 hour clock, homo-sapiens arrived in the last 60 seconds.

  9. Life on OUR Earth… in SPURTS • First spurt occurred 2 billion years ago • 11 million years between the existence of birds and flowering plants • 143 million years between plants and the first dinosaurs • http://www.schools.net.au/edu/lesson_ideas/dinosaurs/images/total_timeline.gif

  10. With the amount of time it takes to develop intelligent life, so many things could go wrong.

  11. Things that could destroy our planet… • Any number of variables could destroy life on our planet. • Some of these variables include: floods, meteors, asteroids, black holes, nuclear weapons, global warming, war, etc. • But more likely meteors

  12. Plate Tectonics • It is figured that Plate Tectonics are shifting and they are key to the development of life. • The plates could, as it is hypothesized they have, shit towards the poles away from the equator where most life prospers, including humans. • www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_Hypothesis

  13. Glaciations • Alternations between glacial and inner glacial periods appear necessary for the development of life. • Various prominent stages of life developed in spurts after glacial periods.

  14. In summary… • As evident from out planet it takes very specific conditions to produce life in general. • We still don’t know when intelligent life evolved in general and the chances of it happening again are just too slim. • So there. • And god created all life.

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