Re:My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence
by turboturbo on Monday June 22, 2020 @02:41AM
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This is logically incorrect. The universe may well be infinite, but that doesn’t imply it must harbour life
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Re:My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence
by dTal on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:36AM
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I believe this would be correct if there were no examples of life already extant - but the fact that we exist shows that the probability of life and civilization arising is strictly greater than 0. Given an infinite universe with a flat probability distribution (i.e. there's nothing particularly special about our little corner), any >0 probability will occur an infinite number of times.
I highly doubt the actual universe is really infinite, however. Incomprehensibly big, yes.