Would the Universe be better off without Earth?

How the earth influences the universe?

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 03 2016 at 12:35

How do you know we are insignificant in universal terms?

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Most of this boils down to the question of whether the inhabitants of Earth can change the fabric of the Ooniverse or not, and the answer to that is we just don't know and it is uncertain that we ever will know. While I doubt that our smartest and brightest will ever be capable of coming anywhere close to understanding what actually makes the Ooniverse tick let alone affecting it, I also doubt that we are the pinnacle of sentient evolution. Mankind (in one form or another) has only been on this planet for 200,000 years of its 4.6 billion year existence, most of our 'accomplishments' have happened in the last 4,500 years and recorded history barely stretches back 2,000 years yet most of us struggle to remember what we had for diner last week and no one can fabricate a cell-phone from the pile of sand and minerals it is composed of. In evolutionary terms we're not that different from our ape ancestors who took great pleasure in flinging poo at each other (in that respect we've hardly evolved at all), so in spite of all we've achieved that we think makes us special we are a primitive lifeform with a lot to learn and a hell of lot more evolving to do. Then there is no reason to expect that the sentient lifeforms that evolves on Earth in the next 4.5 billion years before the lights go out will be descended from man, or even be mammalian, or carbon-based - perhaps one of them will be smart enough to work it all out and then be smart enough to appreciate that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you must. 

How could the universe be better off without Pink Floyd, Marillion, Hawkwind, Queen, etc

aglasshouse wrote: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

set that to 11/8 and tossed in some mellotron and a treble jacked Rick and voila... you have you some prog!

timothy leary wrote: How do you know we are insignificant in universal terms?

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The universe is to dumb to know we own it. It should keep its mouth shut. Have you seen its ratings?Sad. Pathetic.

With Trump in control, I think so..................