Do Aliens actually exist ?

[remember arthur mann]

Kin loads down at the swamp !

 

[Barcon]

@Barcon you never told us?

Eh?

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Eh?

Post above mine

 

[Stuuuuuu]

Brian Cox thinks we are probably alone.

He knows more about it than most on here.

He doesn't think anything of the sort.

 

[Barcon]

Post above mine

Looks more like Danny mills.

 

[Bill Walker]

If God would have pulled his finger out our days of rest would have started on Wednesday.

I have a lot of time for the Moose fanciers

 

[Barcon]

I have a lot of time for the Moose fanciers

A two day work week is plenty enough.

 

[arfurclue]

The world is bursting at the seams with cunts who believe anything. From religious fuds, to conspiracy theorists to alien abduction twats, not forgetting flat earthers. All mentally ill and deluded.

More than half the worlds population if you think of the numbers who believe in an invisible man in the sky, never mind fucking aliens.

So anyone/anything that appears to be outside of your current level of open-mindedness is mentally ill, deluded, cuntish? Wow,lets all hold up Magicpole
as an example of the absolute peak of human potential and wisdom. Then again, maybe not.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

If we exist there is no chance in hell we are alone

This sums it up perfectly for me.

 

[Chippy_boy]

This sums it up perfectly for me.

I'd say it's unlikely, but you cannot rule it out.

You're essentially taking an EXTREMELY low likelihood of something happening and trying it an EXTREMELY large number of times (numbers or stars, planets and billions of years) and trying to deduce whether it happens or not.

Like 0.0000000000000000000000000000000046545417% chance x 1,372,473,389,267,238,528,287,276,247,458,871.634

And hoping the answer is more than 0.5

And we don't know what the digits are!

For intelligent life to exist, it depends upon not only DNA-like constructs which allow division and replication, but critically it also needs very precisely broken DNA-like constructs. If the replication is near perfect, then evolution doesn't happen. And if it's just a tiny bit too imperfect, then every generation is so mutated that it just dies... and then evolution doesn't happen.

For life on earth to exist is a truly STAGGERINGLY unlikely circumstance. But then the universe is very old and there's a staggeringly large number of stars (and therefore presumably planets).

So what wins? The number of times the dice is thrown or the fact that the dice has trillions upon trillions of sides and only one correct answer?