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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by tannerwj on Monday June 25, 2018 @01:12AM (#17390024)
"There is a next to infinitesimal chance that life started very quickly by some kind of once in billions of years magical circumstance."

Tautology? There is a very small chance that something with a very small chance of happening happened...

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Re:Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in th... by inimino on Monday June 25, 2018 @01:44AM (#17390126)
The intended meaning was that there's a small chance of something unlikely happening quickly. If it happened "quickly" (in geologic time) once conditions were favorable, that is evidence against it being enormously unlikely once those conditions obtained.
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