Comments on: Life in the Universe https://blog.speculist.com/astronomy/life-in-the-uni-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Phil Bowermaster https://blog.speculist.com/astronomy/life-in-the-uni-1.html#comment-3108 Phil Bowermaster Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:19:50 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1382#comment-3108 It’s not unlike the fact that the set of microbes we have today is very different from what existed 3 billion years ago. Sure, many have hung on but many more have evolved and developed. We should cut civilization at least as much slack as we cut microbes!

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/astronomy/life-in-the-uni-1.html#comment-3107 Stephen Gordon Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:15:58 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1382#comment-3107 Phil:

I agree that the narrator was unduly pessimistic about finding civilations.

Not only is he not giving enough credit to the possibility of our civilization lasting, he didn’t give enough credit to ancient civilizations.

The ancient Roman and Egyptian civilizations didn’t die. Saying that they did makes nice chapter divisions in a history book, but really, they evolved.

Are people who were living then ancestors to people who are living today? Yes.

Do we have a cultural heritage that includes ideas and technologies that were developed then? Yes.

Civilization hasn’t died since it was born.

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