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Do you believe in Aliens?
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Crazy Jetty
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Did you read the article?
It states that if the universe were infinite, then it would be possible, but statistically improbable.
I believe the universe is finite, and accept that life in it is also statistically improbable, our own included.
First, I think *you* need to reread the article. I don't think you understood everything and may ghave gotten caught up in some of the wording.
For one, the article speaks of
intellegent
life.
Assuming that's excluding everything outside of human-like intellegence, it's an extremely limited view of the universe.
I'm not speaking exclusively of human-like intellegence. I'm talking about life, period. Aliens life forms are not limited exclusively to little grey men, klingons, or acid-blooded insects.
I've also heard this throery before, and it's heavily critisized and largely rejected. It carries an extremely narrow view of what is not only possible, but what is indeed likely. In his own calculations, everything needs to be exactly like earth. It requires a similar solarsystem, an identical sun, and a nearly identical planet. It requires a very slow rate of evolution, and it assumes that it "took" 4 billion years for us to evolve. Which is just insanely stupid, and shows he has very little understanding of evolution and bio diversity.
The universe is 13 billion years old. Stars lived and died before we came along.
Let's look at ourselves as the example like he does.
Earth is 4 billion years old. Life took hold perminalty a billion years ago.
Complex life on earth has existed for 500 million years.
Human ancestors came about 3 million years ago. Modern humans, and thus modern intellegence made the scene only a few thousand years ago.
Why? Why is this the rule for his model? Why does he assume it takes 4 billion years from point a to point b, just because humans were fasionably late?
There is no reason why an intellegent life form could have evolved before then. (In fact, if one really wants to get into detail, true intellegence has evolved several times on earth. Humans, cetaceans, cephalopods, elephants, and it's even believed troodontids achieved this level of intellegence) And indeed, he doesn't even state why it couldn't appear before then.
He also does not take into account Mars, which lived and died before life took hold on earth. A billion years from point a to point b was well within Mars' ability to produce life, before she died.
But even more insulting is his flawed calculations do not factor in LIFE ITSELF. Just human-like life. It does not factor in the Marses in the universe. It doesn't factor in the Europas. It doesn't factor in the unknown.
He also states straight off the bat that given an infinite and endless universe, life in it is *still* improbable.
The article is hokum.
It is supreme arrogance to believe life exists only on earth when even the
finite
universe is larger than the human mind can comprehend.
Life mathimatically exists elsewhere in the universe. And it may be as close as jupiter.
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