It's an interesting theory but I feel like it doesn't reflect the reality.
If galaxy was indeed teeming with rocks containing some sort of microbes than where did they all come from? It'll take an enormous amount of effort to populate an enormous amount of rocks and scatter them across the galaxy. I wouldn't presume that Protozoa would appear on asteroids just by itself. For this mechanism to work there would have to be millions or even billions of such rocks for every star system to ensure that at least a couple of them land on a ripe planet and some of the microbes survive the impact. Most of these rocks would end up falling into a star or a massive gas giant. And we have to think in terms of billions of years here. So these populated asteroids would have to keep falling on a potential life-supporting planet for a couple billions of years until it indeed become habitable.
Ok, even if this mechanism of fertilizing planets was indeed functional as you suggest, we still don't see any evidence of intelligent life out there in our galaxy. Surely, out of billions of planets and billions of years time there would emerge at least a couple of civilizations capable of colonizing a significant part of our galaxy. There's certainly a slim possibility that we may be the first of such civilizations, but I'd be surprised to find out that humanity is THE smartest and most reasonable civilization out of billions others that our galaxy was capable to produce so far.
Well I’m unfortunately digging even deeper into my unproven conjecture well but I do have a working hypothesis for the lack of intelligent life - it’s actually really hard to develop intelligence in the human sense. It looks like there are a lot of extremely intelligent creatures even here (parakeets dolphins elephants) which can’t do shit because they lack thumbs and a peoper larynx so it’s possible the real great filter is what Id like to call actionable intelligence where you are smart and are able to apply and communicate this.
Another possibility is that the window in which life following similar intelligence trajectory as us will actually broadcast in measurable frequencies for a short while (centuries) before rapidly moving on to the next phase of their evolution (who knows what it is? Star child? Transcendence? Warp dimension) so we only have thin shells of radio waves expanding from each planet that developed intelligence making it impossible to detect.
If Venus wasn't hit with something massive why the weird backwards and slow rotation that no other planet has?
I feel like even if Venus had Earth-like atmosphere it'll still be hard for life to endure the 121-day long "day" and "night" where temperature would go from like 250°C to -250°C (numbers from the top of my head). Maybe only on poles there would be possible for water to stay in liquid form for long enough so that life could emerge.
Tidal locking is the normal condition for solid planets. Literally all large and all close-in moons, and most of the distant ones, are tidally locked to the parent planet. Pluto and Charon orbit a common center, locked.
Mars and Ceres get a pass being far from the sun and close to Jupiter. Earth gets a pass because it has a massive moon keeping things stirred up. Venus, like Mercury, is not quite locked. As your rotation period gets close to your orbital period, tidal forces are much reduced. Venus could be oscillating around a resonant point, not yet settled into it.
Temperature difference between day and night cannot be large with a 250 mph global wind keeping the atmosphere well-stirred. Under an ocean, life would be further protected from temperature extremes, with high wind performing evaporative cooling on the day side, and surface ice insulating on the night side.
Never heard of Couchsurfing and I'm quite shocked this idea was able to captivate a considerable amount of people. It all seems terrible to me. Invite a bunch of strangers to hang out in your house? What a terrible idea! Sure, not all people are morons or psychos but there are such people out there. And only one is all it takes to end or completely ruin your life. Risk a life to be able to hear a bunch of bullshit what some idiot has to say is totally not worth it imo. If you want to talk to an idiot - you can find plenty of them on Facebook or Twitter. At least it's safe. And for the real life communications just hang out with your family, classmates, coworkers or even neighbors. There are a thousand people that you know and have some sort of relation to. If you wanna date - use tinder or something.
Be careful out there, if not for yourself but for those, who love you and care for you!
I haven't create a service for auto-generated tweets yet (just human-curated ones), but for similar service which output tweet-length text (w/ a 2GiB RAM side), it takes about 30s on a cold boot (which makes sense as it has to load the model to RAM), and ~12s to generate text after a cold boot.
Water ape theory doesn't suggest humans have to be great swimmers to survive at waterside areas. There's a lot of stuff to eat where the water is shallow as well as probably a ton of fruit on the trees near the coast. Bi-pedaling would help in spending a lot of time standing in the shallow waters looking down at river bottom. Humans nimble fingers help with finding and dealing with various shellfish that were probably crawling around in the bottom sludge.
The bulk of our hair is on the top of the head - the only place that would be burnt by the sun if you stay all day standing in shallow waters.
The shape of our nose (nostrils directed down) are made convenient to stand vertically without getting water into airways.
What is the picture of a paradise? A beach with a white sand, sun shining, clear blue water, lots of palm trees near the coast. This is because its our natural habitat. Not deep forests, not savannah. It's tropical beach!
If I was to be left alone and naked on an inhabited piece of land I would definitely choose a tropical beach out of all untouched locations on the planet, because it is the most likely place where I would be able to survive.
Ok, even if this mechanism of fertilizing planets was indeed functional as you suggest, we still don't see any evidence of intelligent life out there in our galaxy. Surely, out of billions of planets and billions of years time there would emerge at least a couple of civilizations capable of colonizing a significant part of our galaxy. There's certainly a slim possibility that we may be the first of such civilizations, but I'd be surprised to find out that humanity is THE smartest and most reasonable civilization out of billions others that our galaxy was capable to produce so far.