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Do you think we're searching for unicellular life then? We're doing our best to search for intelligent life. That means looking for what we know to be able to s
by namanyayg 8y ago
Do you think we're searching for unicellular life then? We're doing our best to search for intelligent life. That means looking for what we know to be able to support life and to eliminate other random searches. Occam's razor and all that. What else are we talking about?
You're right about the former not being certain, but it's definitely rare amongst the planets we've found? And the latter is quite certain.
- pvg 8y ago'planets we've found' is a huge sampling bias because of our current methods. We can't even look for Jupiters, it's unsurprising they are 'rare'. What else are we talking about? I mean this thread was not about how we search for life. It's about an estimate of the prevalence of intelligent life - an 'explanation' for the Fermi paradox. I'm saying it's basically a story.