{"id":14064,"date":"2013-10-13T01:58:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14064"},"modified":"2013-10-13T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T00:58:47","slug":"life-on-other-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14064","title":{"rendered":"Life Out There?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love these kinds of stories<\/a>. Every time a new lump of extra-terrestrial rock is found they start going on about how it might hold life. Or might once have held \"Whatlife. Or might one day hold life.<\/p>\n

This time they have made up an even better story. The rock in question, they tell us, was blasted off a planet when its star exploded. Somehow or other \u2013 in the minds of these astronomers – this automatically brings up the possibility of life having existed on it at some point past, present, or future. Even though no life has ever been found in order to give such a conclusion any plausibility.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve come to the conclusion there are two types of astronomer. The first kind discovers new things. The second kind makes up stories about new things.<\/p>\n

If you ever watch some of those silly \u201cdocumentaries\u201d on the Discovery Channel \u2013 the ones that insist on trying to make astronomy glamorous \u2013 you see repeated low-quality animations of what life \u201cmay look like\u201d, even though there is no chance of us ever finding out, and only a slightly better chance of there being any life out there at all (and by \u201cslightly better\u201d I mean the astronomers\u2019 premise that life must<\/strong> exist out there somewhere and since you can\u2019t prove it doesn\u2019t, then you\u2019re left with the \u201cfact\u201d that is does.<\/p>\n

And they criticise those who blindly believe in any sort of god.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love these kinds of stories. Every time a new lump of extra-terrestrial rock is found they start going on about how it might hold life. Or might once have held life. Or might one day hold life. This time they have made up an even better story. The rock in question, they tell us, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[105,102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t