Pokemon o_o;
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Nefarious said:
Oh, well then, you'll never find your Pikachu.
Our sun happens to be the exact right size for its luminosity to be what it is, allowing Earth to be nearly 93 million miles away and thus not go into a tidally locked down state, in which case it always faces the same side toward the sun. Our sun's size also allows for its radiation in the red and blue parts of the spectrum to be balanced, allowing efficient photosynthesis to occur.
Yes, our sun is exactly this right size, and it's among the top 10 percent of the most massive stars in our galaxy. Red Dwarfs make up somewhere around 80 percent of stars, and the other nearly 10 percent is made up of stars usually smaller than the sun.
^If our sun was any of those around 90 percent of other stars, life wouldn't be possible, for the reasons said earlier.
....And to make things even more difficult, our solar system is in a small sliver of space in our galaxy that is safe for life to exist. Many areas toward the outer edges are active in their star formation, which destroys and chance of life being there. In the center of our galaxy is a massive black hole, and black holes emit devastating radiation.
So yeah, sorry Pikachu. ;p
The closest thing you'll find is probably a sentient ball of gas e.g. Gastly. And that's also scientifically improbable. Considering half of them at least a mammillian, it's unlikely to get the right conditions.
Are you talking like sarcastically, because like Togeshroob said that we are the coincidentally perfect planet with a perfect sized sun and a perfect sized moon.
I watched a program on Discovery Channel about the moon being very, very, very, very x60 important to living things on Earth, so we are very lucky to have this planet in this position... (Explaination here)
So possibility is a "On in A Googolplex"...
I watched a program on Discovery Channel about the moon being very, very, very, very x60 important to living things on Earth, so we are very lucky to have this planet in this position... (Explaination here)
So possibility is a "On in A Googolplex"...
Gas-beings are barely scienficially plausible, as there is no particular room for a mind or brain. Grtanted, they can be a hive-based mindform, but the fact that they're all clumps of gas is highly illogical.
Zyflair mentioned quantum physics - which is a rather statistical based science - helps explain the probability of where the majority of electrons or photons etc may be under certain circumstances but does not explain where they all may be. It's almost as though all matter has or can have some degree of intelligence or at least free choice to some degree. I see no reason why life/intelligence should only manifest itself in the forms we are use too. There is a lot we don't know... I'm always open to infinite possibilities. Oh, and I have studied quantum physics.
Zyflair said:
IDK, but it may not be that things just sort of work and are coincidentally perfect for life... what if it is only perfect for our life, and we are just the only organisms that needs such conditions? There might be other lifeforms that live in different conditions, so life on those planets are perfect for them... what may be unsuitable for human life may be perfect for other life... so you cannot rule out the existence of such life, just because no living organism to humankind's knowledge can survive in such conditions...
That's just some random crap I thought up of... or maybe I read it somewhere and just forgotten about it
I'm with Absol. Who knows what could work for other life. I do know that there is a lot that I don't know-and the more I know the more I realize this to be true. I am also a big Sci-Fi fan - I believe it stimulates the imagination.
So...how do we make that Poke-ball? Now that we have chewed on the life form thing. I am a big fan of theoretical physics...even just hypothetical imaginary physics... String theory perhaps? How do we get the pokemon to zap (or whatever you call it; I would ask my kids if it wasn't past their bed times) into the pokeball? Transfer their matter into a space where suddenly their mass is no longer an issue and their molecules are compressed to fit in a small ball that fits in your hand? Perhaps only by having the mapping of their structure and intellect zapped into the ball releasing all the extra matter back into the environment only to be re-summoned when opened again and reinstated with the essence trapped in the ball...
So...how do we make that Poke-ball? Now that we have chewed on the life form thing. I am a big fan of theoretical physics...even just hypothetical imaginary physics... String theory perhaps? How do we get the pokemon to zap (or whatever you call it; I would ask my kids if it wasn't past their bed times) into the pokeball? Transfer their matter into a space where suddenly their mass is no longer an issue and their molecules are compressed to fit in a small ball that fits in your hand? Perhaps only by having the mapping of their structure and intellect zapped into the ball releasing all the extra matter back into the environment only to be re-summoned when opened again and reinstated with the essence trapped in the ball...