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Was that quote from Sagan basically saying "panspermia is very unlikely"?
by saalweachter 9y ago
Was that quote from Sagan basically saying "panspermia is very unlikely"?
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoUniverses are very unlikely. Life is very unlikely. Applying statistical analysis to single instances of things always seems like a major flaw to me - it being unlikely means that if we have a million earths few will have extra-solar matter on them. It doesn't really help when you have one Earth.
- mnx 9y agoWell, this is about establishing priors. If something seems unlikely, maybe our understanding of it is wrong? Concepts like Anthropic principle have been introduced to deal with the fact that we exist, however unlikely it may seem.