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| ▲ | ljf 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s... - love this short story and its take on that question. |
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| ▲ | explodes 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Some things on Earth (especially in the ocean) you'd think were extraterrestrial... What a gift to still be able to find such amazing animals out there. |
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| ▲ | pfdietz 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | They all, so far, share the same basic biochemistry, derived from the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). What would be extraordinarily interesting would be if we could find life on Earth with a fundamentally different biochemstry. Very different genetic code, even. This would be sign that Origin of Life is not the Great Filter. And we don't even have to go to another planet to conduct this search for "alien" life. | |
| ▲ | squigz 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Some of those things down in the ocean are almost too extraterrestrial... they can stay undiscovered! |
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| ▲ | morphle 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Isn't life on this planet also life out in the universe? It depends on your point of view. [1] Pale blue dot - Carl Sagan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g |
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| ▲ | squigz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Do you consider things that are inside a house to also be outside a house? | | |
| ▲ | morphle 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | All things are moving in space and time and in relation to other objects so inside or outside are relative points of view. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity [2] Point of view is worth 80 IQ points - Alan Kay. He didn't specify the sign.... | | |
| ▲ | squigz 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I wonder if life elsewhere in the universe is pedantic too. | | |
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| ▲ | tbrownaw 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Things inside this house are indeed outside that house. | | |
| ▲ | Sardtok 2 days ago | parent [-] | | An apartment inside an apartment complex is still inside the same building. Earth is in the Universe. There's a difference between "in the Universe" and "outside of Earth". A superset also includes everything in all its subsets. |
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| ▲ | bregma 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is the coffee actually in the mug or only on top of it? | | |
| ▲ | pests 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Well, can you walk around inside of a coffee cup? If so, you are on it. If not, you are in it. | |
| ▲ | treyd 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | In Spanish I don't care. | | |
| ▲ | gus_massa 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm confused, in es-ar, it can be: * "El café está en la taza." [preferred] * "El café está sobre la taza." [I'd never use this.] * "El café está adentro de la taza." I'd probably use "en(in?)" for a cup, "sobre(over?)" for a plate an "adentro de (inside?)" for a jar. |
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| ▲ | latexr 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Sounds like you might be interested in “The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zoologist%27s_Guide_to_the... |
