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| Topic | Potd: Do you believe that intelligent life exists outside of Earth? |
| ParanoidObsessive 01/14/21 1:35:05 AM #15: | FourthDimension posted... Yeah. The universe is an inconceivably big place. Shadowbird_RH posted... Yes, it is a big universe out there. LuciferSage posted... I don't doubt for a second that there is life in some form or another in the universe, that's just math. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis Size doesn't necessarily equate to probability. Especially once you start factoring in the timeline (ie, even if intelligent life evolves somewhere else, it doesn't necessarily exist now). And especially when you differentiate between "life", "sentient life", and "sapient life". We could easily be looking at a scenario where sapient life evolved elsewhere, but has already gone extinct. Or where it WILL evolve, but not for millions of years - 14 billion years seems like a long time to US, but our current scientific understanding suggests we might be living in a fairly young universe (no matter how many species evolve, one HAS to be the first - and it could just as easily be us as anyone else). Which is not to say that life CAN'T exist elsewhere, or that it DOESN'T, but the size of the universe doesn't even remotely guarantee it does. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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