Re:SETI Institute suspends search for aliens
by JoachimSchipper on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @04:56AM
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> If there's life out there, we'll probably find it eventually.
That's quite possible, but you'd want a highly-advanced technological organization - some bacteria-type things in Martian ice would be a scientific breakthrough, but unlikely to be massively profitable.
Re:SETI Institute suspends search for aliens
by JeremyBanks on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @09:42AM
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If there's life out there, we'll probably find it eventually.
I don't know. I would like to think that this is so, but it seems hard to reconcile with the Fermi paradox (referring to intelligent life, at least). We do not know the probability of intelligent life developing, but I consider it plausible that the probability is such that although other life exits, it is beyond the limits of known methods of communication (e.g. extragalactic).
If there's life out there, we'll probably find it eventually.
Considering life is a binary condition (there or not there) and we haven't found anything to strongly indicate the odds of life existing elsewhere are very small, I certainly wouldn't call the odds of finding life absurdly bad.