JaKiri

We should have never given them back to china.

R>C>P For the love of god, I just SAID that I wasn't interested in the Cosmological Constant; I KNOW that it is highly unlikely that you'll prove the existance of the CC, or M-Theory, or anything else, but that doesn't mean you should state it as fact ALL THE TIME when it blatently ISN'T.

You're just going by 'it's a liquid!' here, rather than forgetting the immense crushing oh my god my spirit pressure.

We're designed to live on a hard surface, and interact with solid objects. Pretty much everything, from skellington to handies, are 'designed' (as it were) with this in mind. How you expect hands (for example) to work in a big cloud of gas and nothing else is beyond me.

A volume of space time that is accessable by physical means.

You appear to have missed that this isn't about the Cosmological Constant. I'm going to let people who actually work in that area deal with determining its correctness. This is about how you have a tendency to state postulates as fact.

Thought experiments only go so far. 'Scientific 'fact' is based on experiment is based on experiment' is possibly the least controversial thing ever said on this forum, so stop arguing with it.

If we're talking pure speculation, then yes. But like I said, speculation isn't a good argument.

The universe, in this sense, isn't 'everything'. Remember what I said about literal interpretations of words?

By there being... more than one. The leap of faith (as it were) from 0 to 1 is much harder than from 1 to many.

Hey look, so did I. In that very post! (look at the clauses following the highlighted word) We're dealing with similar life here. There is no way that life in a gas giant could be similar to us.

The cosmological constant was a postulate before it was tested. Even if they're constructed from 'first principles' (as if such a thing existed; a Schroedinger wave equation is a good example of this, however) it still has to be validated by experiment. Furthermore, given that the cosmological constant was rejected soon after it was suggested (Einstein called it his biggest mistake, in fact), I doubt it could have had the status of 'proven fact' either before or after Einstein. Only recently is it coming back into vogue, but as I said, cosmology has the capability to be really all over the place.

Oh, they have found (if memory serves) some earth-like planets. Just not very many; the vast vast vast majority of them are gas giants. Anyway, I shall refer you to this:

Well done for completely misinterpreting my post. I'll highlight the word you appear to have missed.

AC is much much easier to generate in larger amounts, because you can make it through physical means (google for generators and the like). DC is made by a chemical reaction (the combination of 2 chemical half cells, if you will) and so is much better for small scale applications.

They're mostly gas giants though, and I'd like to see humanoid life growing on them. Anyway, that still leaves us with the assumption that in identical conditions, identical life will grow (or a wishywashy version of this for the matter at hand). Even ignoring chaos theory, there's still random mutation to get around.

The easiest way, by far, to find the centre is by vector methods.

De Moivre's is winking at me. It's never done that before

The only evidence we have for extraterrestrial life is of the form of fossilised microbes. It's a bit early to be making baseless speculation, something you appear to be good at.

I'd suggest you discover a bit more about the scientific method. It's not just thinking of KERAZZY! postulates then going where they take us. There's testing, and hypotheses, and statistical significance. You saying 'There is nothing to prove!' is both stupid in and out of context, as it is entirely reasonable to expect the default perspective of any given person to be what they experience. Cosmology is a big bubbling pot of speculation at the moment. As in your dealings with string 'theory', try to keep this in mind.

You're not a programmer, are you.

Please respond to my point about you being an idiot. I think it's experimentally vaild, you see.

Mine all make sense, so yah boo sucks to Sayonara.

Last Exile, FLCL, Excel Saga. The latter pair are rather.... strange.