/sci/ - Science & Math

[Stephanie Coswell No.3854615]

Hello there, /sci/. We're all familiar with the fact that the overwhelming majority of Scientists accept evolution as Scientific fact. But still, I believe the theory is marginally lacking. Through excessive, and thorough analysis of data (basically doing intensive reading) I've deduced that life should have also taken hold elsewhere other than Terra. Life is capable of conjuring up the most innovative, and cunning ways to adapt to even the most hostile environments. Why hasn't it managed to colonize even the threshold of space? Or the depths of a black hole? Scientists have managed to send microbes into space, and they've returned unscathed. They've also sent chimps, and other species that have endured the hostile endeavor. So, in accordance with the so called "principles of nature", why hasn't evolution taken place? Why hasn't a species of Raccoon capable of thriving without oxygen, arisen?

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3854630]

What do you mean? We are animals, and I'm pretty sure evolutionary pressure got us off the ground.

[Anonymous No.3854626]

Because evolution is bullshit, but seems to fit better than anything else we have got so its accepted.

Personally it makes more sense if we were some sort of alien experiment but that idea just gets herp derped.

[Anonymous No.3854635]

Nevergofullretatard

[Anonymous No.3854636]

>>3854615
The answer is simple - They didn't need to evolve to survive.
Why is Earth the only planet with life? I don't know, to be honest. I guess that the chance of abiogenesis happening is just that low.

[Stephanie Coswell No.3854653]

>>3854636
Your guess is flawed to a limited extent. Abiogenesis occurred on Earth, almost the precise moment Earth was capable of sustaining microbial life.

[Anonymous No.3854655]

>>3854615
there is a hard limit on the amount of flatulence a animal can store to use for propulsion once out of the atmosphere, thus it was never possible to get there.

[Anonymous No.3854658]

>>3854626
Evolution is a fact. Change over time is a fact. Gravity is a fact.

If you have a problem with the theory, come up with something better, or kindly shut the fuck up.

[Anonymous No.3854663]

Same reason no animal has evolved wheels; it's extremely unlikely to come about incrementally. Half a wheel isn't useful, but half an eye is. Same goes for half a rocket engine. Still, there are microbes that may survive inteplanetary transit on an asteroid.

[Anonymous No.3854670]

>>3854653
If abiogenesis happened elsewhere, we would ask ourselves this question anyway.

[Stephanie Coswell No.3854676]

>>3854655
Don't mean to be argumentative, but for flatulence to be utilized as some sort of "propulsion" system, the expulsion of gases through the rectum would need to be some form of oxidizer propellant, to produce gargantuan volumes of extremely hot gas. In addition to that, it'd simultaneously need to function as a fuel propellant. So, that theory can be dismissed as illogical in the frameworks of reality.

[Anonymous No.3854712]

That's because God created Heaven and Earth.
/thread

[Anonymous No.3854728]

>>3854663
Perhaps I'm easily amused but that gave me a laugh.

[Anonymous No.3854741]

Natural selection occurs to improve chances of the survival of life.
Part of this natural selection involves intelligence, which humans evolved with.
This intelligence allowed us to develop technology which evolves faster than natural selection (natural evolution).
It is the evolution of technology that allows animals to fill the niche of flying around outer space.

We are those animals. We fly through space with our machines.

You may ask "how is this evolutionary?" Evolution occurs to increase the chances of life's survival. Our strive to conquer outer space is out of fascination and also to further secure our human survival (inhabiting space and other planets, boosting the economy with space tourism, etc)

Intelligence leading to technology is, you could say, nature's way of evolving creatures to inhabit outer space.

[Anonymous No.3854755]

The Vajra from Macross Frontier say otherwise.

Inb4 anime, it's possible.

[Anonymous No.3854814]

For all we know, life might have formed in a gas cloud somewhere. Space dolphins man. Douglas Adams was right.

[None !!BJiYgff8zf2 No.3854841]

How do you know animals are NOT flying around in outer space?

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[Anonymous No.3855050]

>>3854658
Gravity is not a fact. There was some guy proposing a theory recently of the effects of what we call gravity being effects of entropy.
Tesla had a theory that things don't "attract each other" but it's the aether's pressure which causes the effect.

[None !!BJiYgff8zf2 No.3855053]

>>3855050

You have been misinformed. Gravitation is a fact.

What causes gravity is a mystery.

[Anonymous No.3855094]

Stop feeding the troll

[Anonymous No.3855124]

>>3855053

take a statistics course; nothing is fact, only theories with different degrees of confidence. gravity is a theory with a high confidence.

[Anonymous No.3855134]

>>3855053

nor is what causes gravity a mystery -- its the the force a mass exerts on another. Theories propose this force consists of gravitons communicating between particles with mass. There is lots of research on this, look it up.

[Anonymous No.3855136]

Why is it that every time I see the "why" question, probability that the one who asked it is a gigantic retarded faggot is ~90%?
Oh, shit.

[None !!BJiYgff8zf2 No.3855137]

>>3855124

No, gravitation is a law and that has never been disproven. It is taken as a fact, that's how science works.