[Lanny'sDaMan]

Originally Posted by ken0042

So by that logic we can conclude there is no life in the Universe except on Earth; because we also currently lack the ability to prove it conclusively.

Sorry, you can't just bring up a subject and then say "however let's not discuss this."

Actually:

Originally Posted by Douglas Adams

Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.