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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Hahaha. I don't agree with you. I said it was a possibility, but not a probability. Your possibility is an outlier in the data. Even after NASA tightened the measurables of "possibility" the data is still massively stacked in one direction. The idea of our planet and intelligent life being unique in the cosmos is ignoring the data and probabilities. But...
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The weak Anthropic principle dictates that there is at least one world in which intelligent life evolved otherwise we wouldn’t be here to ask the question. However that does not dictate whether a universe in which one location had suitable conditions to evolve intelligent life that there is many.
Life may be exceedingly rare such that only one intelligent life may exist or may be just one in the duration of time it takes for a civilization to rise and fall. The odds that in a universe as large as ours that two intelligent species overlap in time and space and that one of those species is ours is near zero without FLT or at least faster than light communication.