...or the scientist on that planet adjusting the thermostat on the wall to a comfortable 9,000 degrees longing for Summer (just around the corner...300 Earth years) when he can open the window to take a deep breath of fresh vaporized iron...Depressed with the new atmospheric data from the little third planet in the Sol system...he had such high hopes for - Nothing but Nitrogen, Oxygen and -worst of all- lethal amounts of gaseous and liquid H2O...
 
I exist, therefore I partake...

Rbecker,
 
Interesting perspective on the timeline of our lives that you bring up.
 
Mark Twain wrote a short story about a wise old bug counseling a newborn bug about the vast and long journey through life ahead, the experiences, the hardships. Advice from the old generation to the new generation in passing.
 
The bugs had a life span of one minute. The old bug was getting near the 60 second mark and trying to pass on wisdom to a fresh generation, about to embark on a new seemingly endless 60 second voyage toward infinity.
 
Life goes on in our local environment from milliseconds to thousands of years and toward conditional immortality if you include mushrooms.
 
Our three score and ten may be looked on as a flash in the pan by other life forms out there that live for thousands of years. No matter where we are, anything manifest must reconcile with the Reaper (not the DAW). It is not the quantity of time we have spent but the quality of time we have spent.
 
John
 
 

No, It's all about getting cows to quit farting.

Yea ...but what about the really BIG questions like which DAW has better limiters and EQ ?!?!?

Of course there are other life forms from afar. They've been here, taken a look around, observed how the average human behaves and marvelled at the fact that somehow we have devised a system of running the place where all the people in charge are really the very last people that should have been in charge and moved on. Can't really blame them.

JohnKenn
Rbecker,
 
Interesting perspective on the timeline of our lives that you bring up.
 
Mark Twain wrote a short story...[snip]
 
John

I am a huge fan of Mark Twain. I have read most things he has written, and especially like his short stories, be they short -"The Five Boons of Life".... or long - "The Mysterious Stranger". Some are just plain funny "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", and some not so funny: "The Californian's Tale". For this thread, a humorous story that I did not understand until I was quite adult comes to mind: "Some Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls". In short, woodland creatures discover a derelict "ghost town" of the American West and try to figure out what it is. They decide that saloons must have been places of worship (because there are so many of them), and the discovery of a manure pile proof beyond any doubt that the unknown, extinct residents were "Mound Builders".

I Am evidence of alternate life forms in the juaniverse.

Quantum Endanglement? I think it has something to do with things that dangle and might explain some of this. There is intelligence behind endanglement....I think.
 
Things that dangle get entangled with other dangles...know what I mean? They call that  Quantum Entanglement.
 
Gee the spell checker doesn't even know these words.

For a moment, I thought you were talking about an iLok dongle.....
 
  

I suppose there is possibility that dongles and dangles get mixed. I wouldn't know. I'm not a scientist but I could probably play one on TV.