But we can all agree that Mork & Mindy was a real documentary of alien life on Earth though right :console:
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But we can all agree that Mork & Mindy was a real documentary of alien life on Earth though right :console:
No, you didn't. But I did. And in doing so showed that unless we know the probabilities of life
a) arising and
b) developing into a civilization
then we can't say with any certainty whether life is prevelant in the universe. You say we 'know the general principles' but we don't know anywhere near enough to calculate probabilities without huge slices of guesstimation. If you disagree with that then we have a basis for debate. If you don't then I can't see you can come to any different conclusion to me.
I'm arguing that we don't know how improbable it is. 'Cos we don't...
Your argument is, basically, "there are loads of planets so yeah, there must be life out there".
Which is as silly as saying "if I buy 100 Lottery tickets then I'm bound to win a few million 'cos that's loads of tickets".
Well yes, it is quite a lot of tickets but when you multiply it by the probability of you winning big it's still going to almost certainly leave you disappointed.
N x p1 x p2.
N I think we have a reasonable ability to have a stab at. p1 and p2 we don't. Ergo, we just don't know.
If you can provide values for p1 and p2 which you can show are in any way accurate then let's have them.
Interesting how certain you are about something you can't prove by the way... :)
How to make an interesting thread incredibly tedious. :clap:
Can we do that with mods?