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	<title>Comments on: PBS Closer to Truth &#124; The far future of humans and intelligence in the universe &#8212; episodes with Ray Kurzweil</title>
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		<title>By: primordialshoes</title>
		<link>http://www.kurzweilai.net/closer-to-truth-episodes-kurzweil/comment-page-1#comment-62836</link>
		<dc:creator>primordialshoes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>if abiogenesis was to occur more than once I suspect it would be quickly out-competed by other already evolved life.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>if abiogenesis was to occur more than once I suspect it would be quickly out-competed by other already evolved life.</p>
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		<title>By: grahamatkurzweilai</title>
		<link>http://www.kurzweilai.net/closer-to-truth-episodes-kurzweil/comment-page-1#comment-3483</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 10:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the Drake equation is wrong in it&#039;s prediction. fl = 1 (100% of these planets will develop life) -no.
We have one example of this, our planet.
How many times did this planet produce life from non-life?
Once in approx 5 billion years.
If this were 100% then new life would be emerging all the time continuously.
It is not.
Indeed we have not been able to even do it in a lab.
With a universe approx 15 billion years old the best this can be is around 35% not 100%.
It would have, in reality, have to happened over a period of 46 million years continuously to even reach 1%.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the Drake equation is wrong in it&#8217;s prediction. fl = 1 (100% of these planets will develop life) -no.<br />
We have one example of this, our planet.<br />
How many times did this planet produce life from non-life?<br />
Once in approx 5 billion years.<br />
If this were 100% then new life would be emerging all the time continuously.<br />
It is not.<br />
Indeed we have not been able to even do it in a lab.<br />
With a universe approx 15 billion years old the best this can be is around 35% not 100%.<br />
It would have, in reality, have to happened over a period of 46 million years continuously to even reach 1%.</p>
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		<title>By: f0rTyLeGz</title>
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		<dc:creator>f0rTyLeGz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 05:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t it possible that intelligent civilizations have evolved but they didn&#039;t last?  Even ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, is only a drop in the bucket in 14 billion years.

One thing that we can surely say about an intelligent civilization.  They will have language.  Languages that are in use are always changing... evolving.  The new must be named.  And the quirks of young, beautiful, and famous are copied... and passed on.  Intelligent consciousness is passed on from generation to generation with language.  That is why writing and printing and now computers and the www have had such an impact on technology.

Language is a meme... a megameme.  Intelligent beings wherever they are will have to the same phenomena of processing, recording, remembering, words-for-things.  These intelligent civilizations will have to have curiosity, and be creating new words for new perceptions, discoveries, and experiences.  

Beings who live in technological civilizations will be like us... they will exist in a gigantic evolving sea of words.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t it possible that intelligent civilizations have evolved but they didn&#8217;t last?  Even ten thousand years, a hundred thousand years, is only a drop in the bucket in 14 billion years.</p>
<p>One thing that we can surely say about an intelligent civilization.  They will have language.  Languages that are in use are always changing&#8230; evolving.  The new must be named.  And the quirks of young, beautiful, and famous are copied&#8230; and passed on.  Intelligent consciousness is passed on from generation to generation with language.  That is why writing and printing and now computers and the www have had such an impact on technology.</p>
<p>Language is a meme&#8230; a megameme.  Intelligent beings wherever they are will have to the same phenomena of processing, recording, remembering, words-for-things.  These intelligent civilizations will have to have curiosity, and be creating new words for new perceptions, discoveries, and experiences.  </p>
<p>Beings who live in technological civilizations will be like us&#8230; they will exist in a gigantic evolving sea of words.</p>
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		<title>By: TheVenusProject.Com</title>
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		<dc:creator>TheVenusProject.Com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Ray..

As we all know we are living rather Accelerated times when Science and Technology is developing an ever accelerated pace and even the rate of acceleration is increasing too..

But still todays Humanity is still stuck up in Middle Age in terms of its Social Organization and Social System.. .We are currently living in a world where 1% of the world population own 40% of the worlds resources and almost 80% of the world population are living in poverty and more than half of which are living in day to day hunger.. Todays Monetary Based System which is Profit Oriented at ANY COST .. is jusit further debilitating this Social Stratification and Social Class gap widenings.. Poor are getting poorer.. rich are getting richer.. Corporotocracy has invaded Politicians via bribes and influences.. FED and all other Central Banks are being strictly controlled by Few Extremely Wealthy and Influential Families such as Rockerfeller and Rothschild.. JP Morgan.. They are funding every representatives election campaigns and every presidents election campaigns either openly or covertly.. and thus controlling the whole governments all around the world with their Miltary Industrial Complex and Bought out Mass Media.. and of course via their Privately Owned Federal Reserve Bank which relentlessly prints more money out of thin air and further enriching the rich via the increasing Interest rates.. especially in the third world countries.. Doesn’t it seem that one day general public would bo so angry that they would literally want to eradicate the whole rich and those gangsters who are manipulating all the atrocities going on in the world? It seems that if we do not Stop the Monetary System there is a greater possibility that desperate hungry, poor, young people would just do everything to blow up and fight with the “System” which favors the rich and gets rid of the unwanted “poors” and exploits them further for its own interest..

Solutions are offered by the Venus Project – www.thevenusproject.com and the Zeitgeist Movement..
Have you watched Zeitgeist Documentaries? http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com ?
I really would like to hear your opinion about these issues.. How can we solve all this? and waht should we do? And please watch Zeitgeist Documentaries and inform your thoughts..
Wait for your replies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Ray..</p>
<p>As we all know we are living rather Accelerated times when Science and Technology is developing an ever accelerated pace and even the rate of acceleration is increasing too..</p>
<p>But still todays Humanity is still stuck up in Middle Age in terms of its Social Organization and Social System.. .We are currently living in a world where 1% of the world population own 40% of the worlds resources and almost 80% of the world population are living in poverty and more than half of which are living in day to day hunger.. Todays Monetary Based System which is Profit Oriented at ANY COST .. is jusit further debilitating this Social Stratification and Social Class gap widenings.. Poor are getting poorer.. rich are getting richer.. Corporotocracy has invaded Politicians via bribes and influences.. FED and all other Central Banks are being strictly controlled by Few Extremely Wealthy and Influential Families such as Rockerfeller and Rothschild.. JP Morgan.. They are funding every representatives election campaigns and every presidents election campaigns either openly or covertly.. and thus controlling the whole governments all around the world with their Miltary Industrial Complex and Bought out Mass Media.. and of course via their Privately Owned Federal Reserve Bank which relentlessly prints more money out of thin air and further enriching the rich via the increasing Interest rates.. especially in the third world countries.. Doesn’t it seem that one day general public would bo so angry that they would literally want to eradicate the whole rich and those gangsters who are manipulating all the atrocities going on in the world? It seems that if we do not Stop the Monetary System there is a greater possibility that desperate hungry, poor, young people would just do everything to blow up and fight with the “System” which favors the rich and gets rid of the unwanted “poors” and exploits them further for its own interest..</p>
<p>Solutions are offered by the Venus Project – <a href="http://www.thevenusproject.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.thevenusproject.com</a> and the Zeitgeist Movement..<br />
Have you watched Zeitgeist Documentaries? <a href="http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com</a> ?<br />
I really would like to hear your opinion about these issues.. How can we solve all this? and waht should we do? And please watch Zeitgeist Documentaries and inform your thoughts..<br />
Wait for your replies.</p>
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		<title>By: Logic</title>
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		<dc:creator>Logic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You were asked a lot of silly questions, Ray, but there are some excellent and concise ideas presented here. These are fantastic, and will surely be referenced well into the future. Kudos!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You were asked a lot of silly questions, Ray, but there are some excellent and concise ideas presented here. These are fantastic, and will surely be referenced well into the future. Kudos!</p>
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		<title>By: MysticMonkeyGuru</title>
		<link>http://www.kurzweilai.net/closer-to-truth-episodes-kurzweil/comment-page-1#comment-2865</link>
		<dc:creator>MysticMonkeyGuru</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PZ Myers is going to have a field day with the fact that Kurzweil really believes in God after all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PZ Myers is going to have a field day with the fact that Kurzweil really believes in God after all.</p>
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