Life IN space

[Buffy]

Well, I've always been partial to the Hitchiker's Guide theory that the Dolphins are way ahead of us: I see them staring in amazement at those "silly hairless apes" wasting their time building all those pointless contraptions. If you go over and take a look at Sanctus' thread on anarchy and the aim of evolution, you might notice that Dolphin society very much resembles the nirvana in that thread...

Who's to say what "intelligence" really is?

The concept that I really like in this thread is the "panspermia" idea: its again very anthropocentric of us to assume that life had to have *started* on Earth, and with all that junk floating around, who's to say what a head start evolution got long before our Sun was even a difuse cloud of hydrogen gas?

Cheers,
Buffy

[sigsfried]

What about the Black Cloud by A.C. Clarke (I think) that descirbed a creature that was basically a large cloud of gas. It would approach stars getting very close and gain energy before moving off again. Though I struggle to see how such a thing could evolve (Then again I struggle to see how any life can come about) Once it is there it might be feasible to survive.

[Eclogite]

Originally Posted by sigsfried

What about the Black Cloud by A.C. Clarke (I think)

Fred Hoyle. It was his fictional exploration of his scientific work on pan spermia.