how small we really are

[TangerineSteve17]

Care to elaborate?

If you were making a joke, it certainly wasn't funny.
If you were serious, then there's absolutely no way you can know that, and there's a huge possibility your statement is wrong - hence it was a stupid statement.

Wait. So there might be other forms of intelligent life out there? That makes my statement ridiculous ?
Perhaps I should go back to church too, there might be a God.

Forget church, go back to school.

If you cannot see the difference then I'm not going to waste my time arguing with you.

You know what's even smaller? 2 teeny tiny men having a meaningless minuscule argument for absolutely no reason!

 

[denislawsbackheel]

And there's only us in all that universe..

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

 

[Damocles]

And there's only us in all that universe..

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

Who gives a shit what a high energy particle physicist thinks of astrobiology? Do we care what Cox thinks about history?

 

[TangerineSteve17]

And there's only us in all that universe..

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

That's evidence versus likelihood though. Dangerous to believe evidence on such a small sample. Well not really dangerous, but you get me.

 

[Ban-jani]

And there's only us in all that universe..

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

How am I showing blind faith?

He made a statement saying it's only us, I said he was stupid and ignorant for saying that as we have no idea yet.

He is not correct until there is evidence to the contrary. You cannot claim either way and know for definite.

 

[Evo49]

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

How am I showing blind faith?

He made a statement saying it's only us, I said he was stupid and ignorant for saying that as we have no idea yet.

He is not correct until there is evidence to the contrary. You cannot claim either way and know for definite.

It's a reasonable assumption that we are indeed alone in the galaxy, most likely the universe at this time as intelligent life.

In fact statistically you could not assume otherwise, considering the age of the galaxy and the glaring lack of evidence of intelligent life.

Enrich Fermi asked the obvious question, "where is everybody", and if you google the Fermi Paradox you can read the detail.

Perhaps those so confident intelligent life is so prevalent can resolve the paradox.

 

[TangerineSteve17]

Only if, like you Banjani, people have blind faith.
Until there is any evidence to the contrary he is correct.

Interestingly Professor Cox agrees.

How am I showing blind faith?

He made a statement saying it's only us, I said he was stupid and ignorant for saying that as we have no idea yet.

He is not correct until there is evidence to the contrary. You cannot claim either way and know for definite.

It's a reasonable assumption that we are indeed alone in the galaxy, most likely the universe at this time as intelligent life.

In fact statistically you could not assume otherwise, considering the age of the galaxy and the glaring lack of evidence of intelligent life.

Enrich Fermi asked the obvious question, "where is everybody", and if you google the Fermi Paradox you can read the detail.

Perhaps those so confident intelligent life is so prevalent can resolve the paradox.

Most likely? Is that how it is really? I'm not up on the subject but I thought we hadn't really had a good look yet. I might be showing my naivety here though, I don't exactly read science weekly.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

I'm constantly amused by the notion that we believe that "intelligent life" has to be something like us, including such things as needing oxygen to survive. Is there only one way that life evolves? Or, do we simply dismiss the notion that "life" could exist in a different way? Does it have to walk upright, life intelligent life here?

I'm smart enough to know that I don't know what life might be like everywhere in the Universe.

 

[dronefromsector7g]

Saying we are alone, with any authority, to me, seems like standing in the reception of a huge hotel and declaring that the hotel is empty. The chances seem that remote to me.

 

[Evo49]

How am I showing blind faith?

He made a statement saying it's only us, I said he was stupid and ignorant for saying that as we have no idea yet.

He is not correct until there is evidence to the contrary. You cannot claim either way and know for definite.

It's a reasonable assumption that we are indeed alone in the galaxy, most likely the universe at this time as intelligent life.

In fact statistically you could not assume otherwise, considering the age of the galaxy and the glaring lack of evidence of intelligent life.

Enrich Fermi asked the obvious question, "where is everybody", and if you google the Fermi Paradox you can read the detail.

Perhaps those so confident intelligent life is so prevalent can resolve the paradox.

Most likely? Is that how it is really? I'm not up on the subject but I thought we hadn't really had a good look yet. I might be showing my naivety here though, I don't exactly read science weekly.

Age of the galaxy should easily have produced intelligent life capable of interstellar travel by now, (with reasonable assumptions ref technological progress), so we should see evidence - but we don't. Look it up. Many great minds have offered reasons why - what's your opinion?