Is there anyone in this bitch who doesn't think there are alien races in the universe?

This doesn't mean that little green guys are dropping in on us for the sole purpose of shoving objects up rednecks' arses.

But they've all developed from the same primordial single-cell organisms, and the probability of those ever coming to be is what's unsure.

This seems like common sense but it fact it's not particularly difficult to construct an equally plausible opposite argument (as many scientists do), that the circumstances under which life arose on this planet were so improbable that they are unlikely to be replicated elsewhere.

I definitely believe that there are alien life forms elsewhere in the universe, even if they aren't wisecracking rubber sitcom characters. I also believe that we're never actually going to find any of them, or any convincing proof of their existance.

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"Well," he replies, "I can see thousands upon thousands, indeed, countless stars above me. And I'm sure that, however unlikely it is, there must be some of those stars up there with planets circling them just like our own - thousands of them, in fact. And I'm sure that, however unlikely it is, there are so many planets like ours up there in the night sky that, somewhere in the universe, there must be another planet like ours with intelligent life on it."

"That may be true, Watson," Holmes says, "but to me, it says that someone has stolen the tent."

does the fish know what's outside the water? does the dung beetle think about life outside elephant droppings?

we don't know shit, which is less than can be said for the dung beetle!

that said, i believe in alf.

I think evidence is pretty good that we are not. Scientists believe that other species of animals exist, RIGHT HERE ON EARTH! It's TRUE!

http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html

They've abandoned any semblance of sense by this point, and we aren't halfway through yet. No one has anything remotely resembling even a vague definition of 'capable of sustaining life'; and if we did, it would probably relate to carbon-based life on a small rocky planet - and we don't know how common such planets are, or what they are generally like. This nonsense is a non-starter even if it weren't stupidly narrowminded in conception. I bunged in some figures that seemed to me to be absolutely as good (or bad estimates) as any others, and it told me there were over half a billion intelligent races in this galaxy alone that were trying to get in touch. I could as easily argue for figures that would lead to zero.

Um, what about monkeys, dolphins, ants, ameobas, bacteria, Siberian tigers, and the list goes on...

please alien intelligence, save us

A radio signal is coming from a nearby galaxy, scientists announce https://t.co/IFWJcMTSsN

— The Independent (@Independent) January 7, 2020

great revive

Our ancestors' best tools all came from space: This paper finds that every iron artifact found before 1,200 BCE was forged from meteoric iron, which was worth more than gold. ☄️ pic.twitter.com/UYIaBlCeU8

— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) February 3, 2022

Do you think the term "alien" is offensive and we should adopt the more accurate term "extra-terrestrials"?

Absolutely not, I M Losted.

Why should we be bothered about this stage about offending something when we don't know if it even exists? How do we know if, should it exist, it even has the concept of being offended?

I object to the concept of blasphemy for the same reasons.