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Re: Life lifetime (nano seceonds to million years)         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: mike3
Date: Aug 13, 2008 13:25

On Aug 10, 1:57 pm, tadchem comcast.net> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 12:56 pm, Sanny hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Humans live for average 100 years.
>
>> Some trees live for 500 Years
>
>> Tortoise lives for 200 years
>
>> Birds live for average 10 years
>
>> Dogs live for an average 10 years
>
>> Ants live for average 1 year
>
>> Fly lives for just 1 month
>
> A bacterium may live for only a few minutes before it reproduces and
> become 2 individuals.
>
> There is a shrub in Tasmania about 43,000 years old.http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/277/5325/483a
>
>> We often think life with age of 1 month - 100 years.
>
> Ah! That must be in the narrows of your own mind, then.
>
>> What about life form that live for only 1 second. There can be a life
>> which has a lifetime of just 1 sec.
>
> Possibly, but we haven't seen such yet.
>
>> Or may be some Living giant which lives for million years. and for him
>> 1 year = 1 second. So we are unable to detect its movements.
>
> Trees don't move, yet they live and we detect them easily enough.  I
> dare say that if there were a giant which lived for 1 million years,
> it would be visible whether it moved or not.
>
>
>
>> It takes 1 sec for us to move our hands/ legs to walk. Just image a
>> Big living Object that takes 10 years for moving its parts.
>
>> If we Just look that object for 1-2 years we will not be able to
>> detect those movement. And we will miss them as living objects.
>
>> Earth takes 1 year to revolve arround Sun. And Sun takes millions of
>> years to revolve arround Galaxy. So if a living being is made of stars
>> and is walking we will never be able to detect those movements in our
>> life time. As it will take millions of years to turn arround.
>
>> As they take 1 Million years to move their hands and Legs.
>
>> Simmilarly for very small life that has a lifetime of say a nano
>> second we can never detect them as living object. Asby the time we
>> adjust our Microscope they will have died already.,
>
> We can make images of things that happen in attoseconds (billionths of
> a nanosecond).http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=attosecond+imagery&btnG=Google+S...
>


He is actually right on this one thing. You could _not_ detect it
without _incredible_
luck because you cannot _train your imaging equipment on it_ in less
than 1
nanosecond. Likely your equipment, the sample, etc. would have to move
faster
than light. And brake at an insane rate. That is impossible. It
doesn't matter if the
imager could even image all the way to a PLANCK Time -- if you can't
GET it to
what you want to image before the phenomenon you are attempting to
image ends,
it is useless.

Plus the fact that such an organism would likely not have time to copy
itself
means it would go extinct pretty much the moment it came into
existence.
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