RE: Article: "Time is Life"

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 14:30:08 MDT


So unless I'm missing something, this says "life will eventually
independantly evolve everywhere because it exists on Earth" and then goes on
to explain away the Fermi paradox by saying that nothing wants to visit or
talk to us. Not exactly all that...

Reason
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> Forwarded from http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/abs/astro-ph/0108180
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> Astrophysics, abstract
> astro-ph/0108180
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> From: Domingos Savio de Lima Soares <dsoares@kapteyn.fisica.ufmg.br>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:05:06 GMT (3kb)
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> Time is Life
>
> Authors: Domingos S.L. Soares (Physics Department, UFMG, Brazil)
> Comments: 4 pages, also at this http URL
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> The affirmative statement of the existence of extraterrestrial life
> is tentatively raised to the status of a principle. Accordingly, Fermi's
> question is answered and the anthropic principle is shown to be
> falsifiable.
> The time-scale for the development of life on Earth and the age of the
> universe are the fundamental quantities upon which the arguments are
> framed. ------------------------
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