Statistical chance of life on other planets...
In a recent poll conducted for the National Geographic Channel, quite a few Americans believe that there is life on other planets. 60% believe so. Statistically speaking, the chance it doesn't exist would be about as probable as seeing ET walk into your room in the next 4 minutes.
The Drake equation should give an estimate, the chance that there is life out there. The Kardashev scale shows us how technologically advanced these aliens could be. I think the most compelling evidence there is in favour of intelligent life out there is that they have not tried to contact us, sorry Fermi...
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Of course there is life out there! Can we be so selfish to think we're the only ones priviledged to live (and think)?
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Think a little! Definition of 'life ON other plantes' is probably related to tiny little microscopic bacteria/gasses/cells... Not 'life FROM other planets' like Orson Welles played in the 1938 Radio show "War of the Worlds" seen as the antecedent for believers that aliens come to earth and take over the (read: our) world.
I guess we all need something to explain what is not understood, something to believe in, something to have faith in, call it whatever you want. You're as gullible as you let yourself be!
Even if there isn't any life on another planet at least there's blog-spam! :)
Dude, have you read the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy? Good for a week's laughter at least!
In a recent moment of lucidity (or perhaps the opposite, hard to tell with these moments) I had the idea that "life" could be just another state of matter. i.e. cimple molecules tend to like being gaseous, liquid or solid depending on their surroundings, perhaps more complicated molecules like to form the marginally more complicated state known as life... This (ludicrous) idea is easier to come to terms with when applied to elementary life forms such as bacteria. Evolution takes care of the rest...
Anyway, allowing for the fact that we cannot comprehend a non-infinite universe (because we can't imagine what's beyond that non-infinity), the universe must be infinite. Therefore the probability of life elsewhere in the universe is 1.
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Ok! So here's my view on it...If the it was possible for us than it's possible elsewhere. You also have to account that while we had to have certain conditions these conditions may or may not be the same for other life. It would be selfish to assume that all other life that may be created must have what we consider inhabitable. Also I'm tired of reading that it would take billions of billions of years to make it happen as if even if we did find something it would just be bacteria or something but whose to say we're the oldest out there for all we know we could be the last one or 2nd one or any other number on the list that could be chosen. The probability of something like this happening is mere speculation we cannot prove nor disprove something that we do not understand. So making a statistical "equation" as to the likely hood of it happening would be completely off base as it is not really based on truth but our version of what is truth. I mean the world thought that the world was flat till one guy was like hey you know that doesn't make sense to me and went out to test this theory. So the same theory goes to this.
Adding onto my last comment. I like to take the theory with a cat in the box. Once you close the box you have no way of knowing if the cat is dead or alive until you open it so you must assume that is both dead and alive and therefore both are occurring at the same time. So we must assume since we cannot "open" the "box" that life both exists and doesn't exist at the same time. Therefore both are true.
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