Re: OT: Astronomy - we are small

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:03:58 +1000, Whisper <beaver999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

robinson.neil@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 17 Apr, 23:39, TT <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
robinson.n...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 17 Apr, 21:15, TT <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scott wrote:
Holy ***! We are small:
http://digg.com/d1ofQT
Astronomy fans probably will like this page. I find it mind-boggling.
Nice. And we're definitely not alone. Too bad the distances are so long,
or maybe good...
What exactly are you saying? You believe that there is definitely
intelligent life on other planets?
Of course there is, probability for that is certain. Unless you believe
life on earth was created by some deity and it forgot to inhabit other
planets.

Unless you know the probability of intelligent life arising on any
given planet, there is no way you can rationaly make this argument. It
is perfectly feasible for there to be countless trillions of other
planets, but for the Earth to be the only one on which intelligent
life has arisen, if the aforementioned probability is low enough. You
have to remember that the question - "is there intelligent life on
other planets?" will only ever be asked on a planet on which there is
*already* intelligent life. We are necessarily a biased sample.



You do realize the % of time 'intelligent' life has existed on earth is
exceedingly small? The earth has existed for 4,300,000,000 years &
we've only started using radio waves in last 100 years. So for
99.999998% of the time we haven't had technological capability, & for
0.000002% we have.

Imo the impulse for intelligent life is inbuilt into the universe's DNA
- part of what we call evolution. I think it comes & disappears pretty
much everywhere at some point in time.



then it should be easy for you to disappear from rst no ? in fact, we
can count on it !
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