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- From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
- Subject: Re: ET's amd Radio
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.071148.20016@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
- References: <1992Jul28.061601.7861@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 07:11:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.061601.7861@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (ryan korniloff) writes:
- >My only arument is simply this. In the typical galaxy there are 10's of
- >BILLIONS of stars and there is something like a billion trillion galaxies
- >in the observable universe. Don't you think that aout of all of thoes
- >possible combinations that there would be AT LEAST ONE other life form
- >with higher intellegence?
-
- No. At least not from your argument.
-
- Your argument is basically "Sure, the odds of getting life might be one/a very
- large number, but we also have a very large number of stars and galaxies, so
- there's got to be life out there". Your argument gives no reason to belive
- that these large numbers are anywhere close in size, and seems instead to
- appeal to an (erroneous) intuition that tends to think large numbers are a lot
- like other large numbers....
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