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I think the two key words are "advanced civilizations" and "milky way". In so far as we know, there is only ours. Now if we expand to other galaxies, who knows, there must be something else out there. To be the only ones in this vast universe feels rather lonely.
If you UNDERSTOOD science, the answer is OBVIOUS.. But, you don't, so it isn't..
There are MORE galaxies in the Universe than there are grains of sand on EVERY beach and EVERY desert on this great world of ours..
To BELIEVE that out of ALL those galaxies, WE'RE the only one with intelligent life, suggests that you don't understand math, science, history or common sense..
After all, you're the guy who doesn't BELIEVE DNA aren't you??? You ARE, you silly ignoramus..
You seem to have a difficult time understanding the debates you argue upon.
There are MORE galaxies in the Universe
The debate is about the Milky Way, not the Universe.
To BELIEVE that out of ALL those galaxies, WE'RE the only one with intelligent life, suggests that you don't understand math, science, history or common sense..
Since we've found no direct signs of intelligent life thus far in exploring the universe, there's no basis for any probability concerning life in other areas of the Universe. Unless you have any proof at all that hasn't been made known to the public somehow of signs of life on other planets, don't assert your ignorant beliefs so confidently and condescendingly.
Side note: I do believe we are not the only life in the Universe, I just severely disagree with the illogic in the reasoning of your argument.
Simply attempting to correlate two unrelated variables is not, in any way, a mathematical prognostication. Each planet isn't an attempt by some conscious being at creating life; there is no reason to assume that the mere amount of planets equates a probability for life to have formed on others. It's like saying if I roll a single die an infinite amount of times, at least once the die will roll "vanilla" just because of the amount of times I rolled it. Doesn't make sense put that way. This is also a version of a flawed argument for the existence of God, or pretty much anything else you can possibly imagine.
"The universe is so massive, unicorns just GOTTA exist somewhere in it. Or Fairies. They're all somewhere!
PS> My point with that is that nobody will take your argument seriously unless you back it up with facts rather than emotions. Otherwise you're just ranting on the same level as those which you condescend.
Hmmmm....Given that somebody is gonna win the lottery, if one guy looses, you appear to be saying that chances of winning are still 50/50.. Apparently you believe that if 13 or so MILLION people don't win, the next person HAS an EQUAL chance.
Given that somebody is gonna win the lottery, if one guy looses, you appear to be saying that chances of winning are still 50/50.
This is not my position at all. It's very apparent you lack the understanding of English necessary to even comprehend what I'm saying. My position is that, as the only planet known with life or signs of life on it, we have no reference for what the probability a planet has life. It's like playing a game where you click a button, and the screen displays a "0". A million people play the game and click the button, and it always shows a "0". But the next person that plays the game gets a "1". What's the probability of the screen showing a "0" or a "1"? You only have one instance of the screen even showing a 1, so you can't give any approximation to what that probability would be. You can't say it's 1/1,000,000, because it could be any smaller percentage and just had gotten lucky. Likewise, it could be any probability higher and everyone else was just unlucky. There's no trend to go off of.
All the same, we have no other planet we have observed so far that has life on it; so for all we know, we could be the only ones or there could be billions of civilizations just outside our field of vision. My argument is simply that you asserting, undoubtedly, that there have to be more than just one civilization of the Universe simply because of its size goes against many fundamental mathematical principles I tried to make as simple for you to comprehend as possible. I swear, I have to resort to explaining this like I'm talking to a child to get people to even understand my position.
All in all, the takeaway is just shouting, "because math" behind your baseless assumptions is meaningless; and an insult to mathematics and science alike. You should never assume that just because something is possible, it's reality; hypothesizing is fine, but don't say you know anything to any degree of certainty without evidence.
And yet Darwin couldn't muster intelligent life in any of them...
Hello bront:
Couple things...
It's NOT about proof.. It's about math. Given that there are BILLIONS and BILLIONS of planets in the Milky Way, one would have to believe that we earthlings won life's LOTTERY. Math, on the other hand, says we didn't win squat..
The truth is we don't whether Darwin populated the Milky Way, or not.. Scientifically, we're only able to identify a sentient population through their radio waves.. Since we've been broadcasting radio, and/or listening, our waves haven't traveled much beyond our very own solar system.. That's because of the speed of light.. It would take several MILLIONS of years for our signals to reach even the closest habitable planet, and for theirs to reach us..
Your book says that NOBODY is in the Milky Way but us.. Science books say the Milky Way is RIFE with LIFE..
The truth is we don't whether Darwin populated the Milky Way, or not..
True. So far it indicates...no.
Scientifically, we're only able to identify a sentient population through their radio waves.
Actually we can see a long way out there. Nothing yet. As for the waves. If there are no good "waves", that's not particularly helpful to those looking for aliens.
Since we've been broadcasting radio, and/or listening, our waves haven't traveled much beyond our very own solar system.. That's because of the speed of light.. It would take several MILLIONS of years for our signals to reach even the closest habitable planet, and for theirs to reach us..
You don't know what they use. Theoretically, they could be well beyond the technology of "speed of light" and "waves".
Your book says that NOBODY is in the Milky Way but us..
Citation needed. Why? Because that isn't in the book. If aliens exist, that wouldn't disprove the book. If they don't, it's not particularly helpful to your lack of belief.
Science books say the Milky Way is RIFE with LIFE..
So show us intelligent life. I'll take an alien chimpanzee or even a cow-like creature at this point.
