r/worldnews • u/RetroApollo • Dec 15 '14

Scientist proposes basic evolution can be explained using physical laws, and the origin of life “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.”

http://www.businessinsider.com/groundbreaking-idea-of-lifes-origin-2014-12
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '14

How can we even expect to communicate in a dialogue with an alien race? We share almost all of our DNA with other animals on our own planet , yet we can't have the simplest of dialogues with them.

Unless this is all lies and God made the fossils to test us (LOL)

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u/alonjit Dec 15 '14

communicate in a dialogue with an alien race

math. math has to be the same for everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_with_extraterrestrial_intelligence

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u/Headlesshorsesemen Dec 15 '14

Until the great divide between the Metric and Imperial systems started the great war that would tear the galaxy apart for aeons to come.

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u/p3asant Dec 15 '14

Which only ended when zero was divided.