Could Mars Be Inhabited?

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by rhertz

Isaac, does the bible make any statements regarding the question if we are alone or not? I think I remember a Discovery show years ago that tried to prove the existence of UFO's and it showed artwork in caves as well as quotes from the Bible as I recall.

I believe that would be in Ezekiel ! I think referred to as a whirlwind or in the Greek highly polish bronze.
Ezekiel 1:4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

One more place Acts 1:9-11
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
I am so glad you ask rhertz I think !
Isaac
Bible bashers get in line you can not be first only next

[rhertz]

Wow, cool pic there Isaac. Just for the record, I believe in UFO's. LOL, it's the extraterrestrial aliens I'm not so sure of. Just kidding. I think that statistically speaking, there is only an infinitesimal chance that we are alone in the universe. That is to say, there is nearly an infinite certainly that there is other life in the universe. I was curious if my religion might support my belief in this topic.

[joepole]

If you want to work the odds, then we are almost certainly not the only life in the universe, but we are also almost certainly too far from anyone else to have made contact yet. Remember, the universe had been expanding (most likely at about the speed of light) for 10 or so billion years, meaning we're about 10 billion light years away from any other random point.

[Isaac-Saxxon]

Originally Posted by joepole

If you want to work the odds, then we are almost certainly not the only life in the universe, but we are also almost certainly too far from anyone else to have made contact yet. Remember, the universe had been expanding (most likely at about the speed of light) for 10 or so billion years, meaning we're about 10 billion light years away from any other random point.

If that is the case and I am not the math man you are then would the earth and sun be moving away at the same speed ? Or is our solar system moving at that speed ?
Isaac

[joepole]

Yes.

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[AnimeSpirit]

I don't know about that. If you mark 2 points on a balloon with a marker and begin blowing it up, these two points would most certainly move away from each other. They would not, however, move away from each other near as fast as the expansion speed of the balloon itself. If two planets bearing the seeds of life were side-by-side billions of years ago, they would likely be far out of sight now after billions of years, but not by light years.

One light year is roughly 5,879,000,000,000 miles.

[joepole]

Inside a sphere with radius r, the mean of the distance between any two random points is either r or r/2. I'm pretty sure it was the former, but even if it's r/2 that's plenty of distance (5 billion light years).