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Originally Posted by Bigtime
Not to derail this thread too much but my wife and I had some good debate about it. Despite things like the gamma ray burst I just can't believe that in the vastness of our galaxy alone some form of intelligent life hasn't been able to survive and be older than us.
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Yeah, I don't want to derail it either, but I'm sure that in a universe of infinite frontiers, that there is something out there older and smarter then us.
But a friend of mine and myself call it the odds of minuscule.
There probably isn't a lot of life out there, maybe pockets here and there. And the odds of us finding each other are the same as the odds of filling up the Atlantic Ocean with identical marbles except for 3 or 4 that have a tiny red dot painted on it.
Its the same as the odds of protecting us from a truly life snuffing events, because of the amount of things that happen in an infinite system the chances of it hitting you are pretty small.
In terms of car accidents if this planet had three or 4 dozen people on it, what are the likely hood of getting hit by a train.