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It might be like a lot if there could have been intelligent civilizations 8 billion years older then us.
by namaria 2y ago
It might be like a lot if there could have been intelligent civilizations 8 billion years older then us.
- the_af 2y agoI doubt any kind of lifeform can exist for that long, but even if it did, the rest of the objections apply. If it's in the other side of the universe, we will never meet. So it would have to be near, and [rest of my objections]. Seems very unlikely to me.
- namaria 2y agoWe're are extremely unlikely by any available measure.
- the_af 2y agoWhat's the argument you're making?
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- namaria 2y agoThe universe is huge. Life seems to be unlikely since it's very concentrated. But the universe is very, very big and even if it is unlikely as it seems at the moment, it would be quite weird if it were unlikely to the point of only one living planet existing in 13 billion light years of space and yet we exist. Fascinating stuff really.
- Vecr 2y agoYeah? But that's an argument against seeing any aliens up close (if you believe in that kind of thing), because presumably they're extremely unlikely too. They're not there, or they're far away in time and space, with a remaining tiny chance that something incredibly unlikely happened.