Re:Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
by gambiting on Monday August 02, 2021 @06:56PM
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>>We have 8 other planets and many moons that have failed at creating life in any form - that's literally hundreds of billions of years of failed attempts at life.
Again, how can you be so certain of it? Life could have existed in some form on Mars or Venus or even Mercury millions if not billions of years ago, only to be extinguished by the changing conditions in the solar system and ground to absolute dust by time. Maybe not advanced space faring civilization, but life could have existed in those places and you simply don't know.
>> you only need math and probability to figure that out.
Yes, and maths and probability are telling me something very opposite to what you are saying. That if you are observing a solar system like ours(forget the entire universe for a second) for a ~100 years out of billions of its existance, then sorry, but you don't know anything about it, certainly not if it harboured life in the past or not, not to a degree that you seem to be certain of.
Again, how can you be so certain of it? Life could have existed in some form on Mars or Venus or even Mercury millions if not billions of years ago, only to be extinguished by the changing conditions in the solar system and ground to absolute dust by time. Maybe not advanced space faring civilization, but life could have existed in those places and you simply don't know.
>> you only need math and probability to figure that out.
Yes, and maths and probability are telling me something very opposite to what you are saying. That if you are observing a solar system like ours(forget the entire universe for a second) for a ~100 years out of billions of its existance, then sorry, but you don't know anything about it, certainly not if it harboured life in the past or not, not to a degree that you seem to be certain of.