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Originally Posted by Muta
Enoch - what's your own position on the possibility of extraterrestrial life?
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First of all, the possibility of extraterrestrial life is a very different conversation than the 'aliens are here' conspiracy, but to answer the question:
There are maybe a couple trillion galaxies, and maybe one or two hundred billion stars per galaxy. And then some number of planets per star (probably larger than currently estimated, as there is still a great deal of matter to be accounted for). So the likelihood of life is almost a certainty. Hell, I suspect the possibility of life in our solar system is pretty high, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do in fact find evidence of (microbial) life on Mars.
However, the likelihood of intelligent life is someone lesser - above zero? Seems, again, almost a certainty though, at least
somewhere.
However, the step from 'intelligent life elsewhere' to 'aliens in Vegas' is beyond huge. The idea of alien life travelling to earth is challenging enough, but the idea that any evidence of it is non-existent, other than tiny scraps of it that are somehow being kept secret in what would be the greatest cover-up of all time, is... somewhat harder to swallow.