| Subject: Re: The Fermi Paradox and SETI Success |
| From: "'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank" <lflank@yahoo.com> |
| Date: 15/08/2008, 21:31 |
| Newsgroups: sci.astro.amateur,alt.sci.seti,alt.sci.planetary,talk.origins |
On Aug 15, 10:14 am, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:03:19 -0400, "Robert J. Kolker"
<bobkol...@comcast.net> wrote in talk.origins:
'Rev Dr' Lenny Flank wrote:
How many bacteria are there on earth . . . . . . . . . .. ?
I think mass would be a better measure than number. Still, the insects
outweigh the mammalian population and are better adapted to Earth, as it
is, than mammals.
The first forms of line on this planet were one celled thingies. I
suspect such like organisms will be the last forms of life on this planet.
Don't bacteria outweigh insects?
I think they outweight ALL multicellular life.
Indeed, the deep-earth extremophiles, by themselves, might outweight
all multicellular life.
Life on earth is, always has been and probably always will be,
dominated by bacteria. We multicellulars are just a flash in the pan.
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Lenny Flank
"There are no loose threads in the web of life"
Editor, Red and Black Publishers
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