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People keep thinking in terms of Drake's equation, and I for one am puzzled. Don't people realize that under any imaginable and non-imaginable scenarios, life o
by credit_guy 3y ago
People keep thinking in terms of Drake's equation, and I for one am puzzled. Don't people realize that under any imaginable and non-imaginable scenarios, life outside our galaxy is irrelevant for us? There's no way we can exchange a single "Hello" with a neighbor in Andromeda, and that's the closest galaxy out there.
I don't personally deny that there could be life in other galaxies, but equally, there could be angels dancing on the tip of a hairpin. Maybe there are, but neither can affect my life in any way.
- generic92034 3y agoAndromeda does not seem to be such a good example for your point, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co... We would just need to wait for "some time". ;)
- lijok 3y ago> Maybe there are, but neither can affect my life in any way. Materialistic thinking. If confirmation of life beyond earth would not have a psyche-altering effect on you, I would ask if you were human? Besides that, confirmation of extra-terrestrial life would have immense effect on most things here on Earth, material or not.
- cryptoz 3y agoThe Drake equation specifically only deals with the Milky Way Galaxy and has no comment about any other galaxies.