[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by CLASSIFIED

I disagree.

You stated that life on other planets was a mathmatical certainty and I provided you with a link to an article that shows that even if the universe were infinite (which it isn't) it would be unlikely.

Here is another article explaining why your assertion that it was a statistical given wasn't true:

The Drake Equation - How Many Alien Civilizations Exist in Our Galaxy?

To clarify, I'm not saying there definately isn't life out there, just that it isn't a given.

Oh my lord, I know how Sheldon feels.

You are speaking about star travelling cultures. I am speaking about life itself. You do know that fish, plants, insects, and bacteria qualify as life, don't you? Not just someone that can build a spaceship?
Did you even read and comprehend anything I said?
I mean, my goddess... even the Vatican acknowledges the likelyhood of life existing outside of earth.

By the way, I've been studying astrophysics for 30 years. At the risk of sounding arrogant, you're not going to produce a website link to invalidate me. (Though I admit I was wondering if your googling would bring you to something intellegent like the drake equasion.)

Does "intellegence" exist on other planets? I don't know. No one has presented me with conclusive proof that intellegence isn't extremely rare on earth. (The internet helps disproove the theory of intellegent life on earth)
But the Universe is too vast.
200 billion stars times 100 billion galaxies. With ten percent of that number having planets. The majority of those planets having moons. If the number is even one percent likelyhood, that's still far greater likelyhood than you're understanding it to be.
Hell, we already know of three planets that so far seem to be more capable of life than Europa.

Anyway, I'm done with this because you haven't actually commented on anything I've said, and certainly not even proven to me you've understood, or even *read* my posts.
Believe what you wish to. I really feel sorry that you're trapped in such a limited universe.

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Plus... science changes and expands every single day. As recently as the late ninties, science thought that our solar system was the exception, and it was the only one with planets. There were equations to proove this.
And once we figured out how to locate extrasolar planets, we've come to learn that planets orbiting stars tends to be the rule.
Is life common? No. With Extraterestrial life be discovered in our lifetime? Unless one of them comes to us, or fossils are found on mars, no. But if life exists in Challenger Deep... if life exists in scalding hot waters, and in sulphiric places on earth... life exists on earth in places we cannot comprehend. And there is even reason now to believe it exists within the mantel of earth... then there is no reason why it cannot take hold on extrasolar planets, both extreme and moderate.