The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday December 15th, 2022
The Nature And Power Of Intent by Jan Sand
There is a good deal of astronomical activity these days to search for life beyond what we know on this planet . At this time there is no positive evidence of extra-terrestrial life apparent. One of the fundamental difficulties remains our lack of a clear definition of exactly what life is, so the search generally has been a search for planets very much like our planet Earth containing liquid water and oxygen and a temperature range that we prefer.
Ideally we would desire to contact intelligent life with a technology somewhat similar to what we posses. Since planets beyond those in our solar system orbit stars so far away, contact through some form of electromagnetic radiation is restricted to the speed of light, which is desperately slow for interstellar communication. Nothing else seems available at the moment so intellectual exchange presents vast difficulties and we are left with intellectual speculation until something definite appears.
Perhaps it is worthwhile to return to basics and examine the fundamentals of what makes something alive and how it differs fundamentally from something not alive. All life requires a source of energy. It uses this energy to maintain a system which processes whatever is available to keep the system in operation and to manufacture either duplicates of itself or very similar systems that are better adjusted to mate with the environment which varies in ways that are frequently unpredictable.
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Joy Forest #poem by Chad Norman
“All the days before this one
when chipmunks finally returned,
gave the soul in me the visits
I have thanked them for
some other Springs.”
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Sceptic feathers #53 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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