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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Classic human arrogance.
Just going by the numbers game. Billions of galaxies. Takes 1 intelligent species in every 100,000 of those to significantly reduce our odds of being the most advanced, and who knows if they're much more common than that.
And given that we've been around for essentially the blink of an eye, it wouldn't be a wise bet. I mean the vast majority of our technology has come about in the span of a measly few hundred years.
That's just easy to say when we can't see the forest from the single tree we've been staring at our whole existence. We're living in a tiny shoebox and many are assuming theres nothing interesting or advanced beyond us outside of it.
Talk about short sighted beliefs. But humans will human. We da best!
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It's not arrogance. It's a legitimate possibility. As Pho suggested, even in view of the size and age of the universe, how much of that time and space is expended before the necessary preconditions of life arise? How many events take place where intelligence actually emerges over time? Maybe 12.5 billion years is just as long as it takes.
I am totally open to the likelihood of life elsewhere in the universe, but I am also fairly convinced of it's exceptional rarity. Convinced enough to think that among extraterrestrial civilisations we are quite possibly closer to the cutting edge of technological advancement than behind it.
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