Guest guest Posted October 21, 2006 Report Posted October 21, 2006 The other day a fellow asked me what, if it were true the sun would one day go super-nova (he was thinking, I suspect, of Nietzsche's remarks about the little creatures who find themselves revolving about the little star), would the consequences for human beings be? I replied that it left us with two choices: accept and wait for the inevitable, or get off the planet by means of space travel so as to save the human race. He then asked me if I knew whether there were human beings in other places in the universe, and/or if there had been human beings in the remote past, prior to our own evolution (and perhaps already destroyed by a supernova of long ago). That is, he asked me if I knew whether or not human beings recur and/or are already extant elsewhere in the universe. The light went on, and I was compelled to admit that I did not know. How could I?Best,Dan Watkins As the saying goes, "God only knows......." Quote
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