Science - It's life Jim but not as we know it...

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Just to add another one on top maybe size playing some part in relation to time is evolutionary. Because if something is slower it would need some other feature to stop it from being hunted and caught easily. Maybe that explains the size? So the fact elephants which experience time quicker, are massive and powerful meaning they're unlikely to be attacked so easily by smaller, faster animals.

And then I've thought, well what about small creatures that don't move quickly? But they have alternative evolutionary features to prevent being caught so easily such as brightly coloured caterpillars, or camouflage colours, or as it applies to stick insects. So they can experience time quicker, move slower, also without the danger of being killed off.

Just a thought don't know if it all ties together or not.

I would see elephants similar to humans, intelligent creatures but even more than that, similar in cognitive behaviours, so maybe one for me to read up on. I see elephants as having a similar lifespan to humans, bearing in mind any advantage humans gain is through development of protecting ourselves. I'm talking wild elephants mind, not something cooped up in a zoo. So could time be related more to intelligence, than actual size, although if that was the case I probably should be dead by now lol.
 
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as per that earlier comment, it depends what heaven is?

I've never had imagination or fantasies towards what would constitute heaven. If heaven is the afterlife, how is that possible, because we are only organic matter that returns to the soil. People often express the wonders of nature, but nature in reality is extremely destructive it's beauty only comes from a particular stage of the life cycle, before it destroys itself again. In trillions of years, what we know now, will not exist, but even worse there will be no trace that we or anything ever existed. For all we know a similar environment that we are in now could have been destroyed before, we only measure time from the supposed big bang or time from the existance of our planet or solar system - so what is this heaven that people talk of, where does this fit in the timescale? Why do we speak highly of nature when everything in it dies, sometimes that death is brutal, much like a hyena eating a zebra while it's alive and still alive for some considerable time after, because that's the viciousness of nature that humans often choose to ignore. Every single thing destroys something. So much suffering throughout the world, but people talk of heaven, I suppose if we are already in hell, we just seek a better place where the suffering ends and maybe use the term heaven to console ourselves, because the dead can't come back to tell us if such a place exists, other than in our imagination. Happy Christmas btw mate lol.
I think I've said something like this before in regards God but it also works with heaven. If a human being could imagine heaven it probably isn't worth going to (a bit like Alton Towers in the 80's). Our brains are not capable of visualising God or Heaven.
 
I think I've said something like this before in regards God but it also works with heaven. If a human being could imagine heaven it probably isn't worth going to (a bit like Alton Towers in the 80's). Our brains are not capable of visualising God or Heaven.

I don't disagree with you in the sense of what life is about is beyond human understanding. I believe in fate certainly, and I also believe that life chooses it winners and losers, like two photon particles, one positive, one negative. An example being in human life, Liverpool always the winners, Toon always the losers, and even when the two photons collide scientific penalties will be awarded. However, there are also conflicting messages in life, how do the dinosaurs fit into my biblical teachings, well quite simply they don't, but someone will have an explanation for it I'm sure lol. Maybe what we find and learn, is just the way god intended it to be. Oh look humans have created telescopes, so let's create a vastness where they can never reach the end. But yes you are right...

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We need to terraform a planet...

... For animals, so they can get away from people.
 
Miami also happens to be one of the big drug hubs...

No coincidence drugs making people believe in aliens. See Aber.

I googled to see where that place was because I've been to Miami quite a few times, generally as a stop over on the way to the Keys. It's off the MacArthur Causeway, which is the main link to South Beach, plenty of money there, so it don't surprise big on drugs as well.
 
First US moon lander launched today since 1972.

It's upset a few people though because it contains human ashes and DNA on board, breaking ethical boundaries as space is seen as a sacred place (or something like that anyway). Also on board is some powered formulation for future atronauts to mix with moon water, the search for water being the main reason for the expedition.

I'm guessing because it's a commercial launch is the reason they can stick two fingers up to your ethics. Not that it bothers me, but I'd prefer we did these launches without pissing people off.

More here...

https://news.sky.com/story/first-us...nce-apollo-due-to-lift-off-on-monday-13043619
 
First US moon lander launched today since 1972.

It's upset a few people though because it contains human ashes and DNA on board, breaking ethical boundaries as space is seen as a sacred place (or something like that anyway). Also on board is some powered formulation for future atronauts to mix with moon water, the search for water being the main reason for the expedition.

I'm guessing because it's a commercial launch is the reason they can stick two fingers up to your ethics. Not that it bothers me, but I'd prefer we did these launches without pissing people off.

More here...

https://news.sky.com/story/first-us...nce-apollo-due-to-lift-off-on-monday-13043619

Oh dear...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67915696

Mission life could now be measured in just hours, the firm said.

Certainly, a touch-down on the lunar surface - the first for the US in half a century - is no longer possible.