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Extra-terrestrial life remains a hypothetical. There is no empirical evidence it exists beyond Earth. Until we witness some kind of artificial signal, or break
by 1970-01-01 3y ago
Extra-terrestrial life remains a hypothetical. There is no empirical evidence it exists beyond Earth. Until we witness some kind of artificial signal, or break open an asteroid with fossilized life, or somehow visit extra solar worlds with it, or get an unexpected visit, we're simply left arguing about the math.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 3y agoSo hypothetically we observe that there is life somewhere, say beyond our ability to reach. What’s the next step beyond arguing about the math now that this is confirmed?
- Filligree 3y agoThen we can stop arguing about the math.
- awb 3y agoDetecting life would still be a small sample size. You’d need to detect life or rule it out on a variety of planet sizes, ages and compositions at a variety of distances around a variety of star types, ages and sizes at varying locations in the galaxy before we’d have enough data to make confident predictions.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoThe next step is arguing about communications. Do you trust the unforgiving universe to respond kindly? Is it a dark forest trap?
- m3kw9 3y agoIs hypothetical but the minuscule chance there isn’t a single cell outside of earth is almost infinitely minuscule. Is like saying to your friend “you have a chance to win the mega billions lottery”. It’s meaningless to them because they round down to that you have no chance
- m3kw9 3y agoLet’s say you found previous life in mars, will you say then life outside earth and mars is hypothetical? And as you keep finding life in bigger orbits you keep repeating it and you’d be treated as a crackpot lmao