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The only thing that seems to violate the mediocrity principle is the staggering odds that we exist in the first place given the conditions under which intellige
by altcognito 12y ago
The only thing that seems to violate the mediocrity principle is the staggering odds that we exist in the first place given the conditions under which intelligent life needs to have in order to exist. But then, Anthropic_principle, so there's that.
Een then, once you understand the vastness of the universe, even falls under the veil of inevitability.
- pmahoney 12y ago> the conditions under which intelligent life needs to have in order to exist We know what these are?
- Retric 12y agoDon't confuse our history as the only possible history. There are lot's of planets out there vary much like earth. Presumably there are trillions of planets with single celled life and quite possibly trillions of planets with intelegent life just not close enough for us to notice. The universe is likely far larger than just the observable univers. Still ~27+ billion light years across means we only get to see suff that's less than 1 billion years old within ~1/20,000th of the univers and the last 1 million years is ~1/20,000,000,000,000 of the visible universe. Look back 1 million years and earth has little trace of any intelegent life. Worse if there was another identical earth pushing out radio waves as much as we do 1,000 light years from us we would probably have missed it so add another 9 zeros. Hell voyager 1 is in a well known location less than 2 light days from us pointing a directional antenna directly at us and it's not that easy to detect. 1 light year would mean ~1/10,000th the signal which would be hard.