NASA Confirms CO2 On Distant Planet, Life To Be Found?

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound

There are two schools of thought on the subject. On one hand you have Spinoza, the greatest man whoever lived, who postulates that the laws that determines the fall of a tree and the sound it make exist whether they are perceived or not. That is to say "ideas and laws are more permanent and therefore more real than senses perceived particular things."

On the other hand you have Berkeley who postulates that "objects of sense exist only when they are perceived." That is to say if no one is there to hear the tree fall the tree does not make a sound because it doesn't even exist.

I tend to favor the school of Spinoza.

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

if a person lives on a planet 300 light years from earth, does it matter to us?

Yes because knowledge is power.