• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    How do you know? It’s like you sampled a thimble full of water from the ocean and concluded that whales don’t exist.

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        7 months ago

        No serious astrophysicist is claiming there is no extraterrestrial life. We haven’t found any definitive evidence yet, but that’s just because our sample so far has been tiny.

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          Nobody claimed there was no extraterrestrial life. Most expect some life with at least some algae. Just chances for intelligent life, as more data comes in, turns out to be rather small and with a reasonable chance we’re the only one in this galaxy. The values originally used in the Drake equation were very optimistic.