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dinosaurs are still multicellular organisms tho. Whose to say that they wouldnt have become intelligent. Haven't you heard of reptiods? j/pYou have a point on the rest but if we find even unicellualar organisms somewhere it would be front page newsOriginally Posted by infamousod
Originally Posted by eddie
most of those coincidences have to do with the size of the earth, location and having a moon. so out of those and some more things you assume its more likely that out of those billions (maybe trillions) of stars and significantly more planets, the universe is not in favor of having another sustainable planet?Originally Posted by infamousod
the odds are still not in favor of there being intelligent lifeforms on other planets. if you take a biology class and/or study the Earth's history
you'll see it took at least thousands of coincidences on very long odds that are just incomprehensible to get to this point.
the size/location/presence of a moon/presence of water and most of the things even a genius can list don't even begin to explain a tenth of the things that had to happen in a certain order for intelligent life to form. I mean if there had been no giant meteor to hit the earth and take out the dinosaurs, humans would've never come along, that right there adds a few 000's to your odds.
If you sit and really think about the massive amounts of water needed to have spawned multiple-celled organisms, the presence of an atmosphere with the right mix of oxygen, nitrogen and dozens of other gases, the presence and combination of compounds it took to create carbon-based life forms, the odds that evolution is possible and that ecosystems were allowed to exist and persist. And that only scratches the clear plastic wrapping off the biological stuff, not to mention the evolution of an opposable thumb, and trying to figure out how humans not only got the ability to think such deep thoughts but also have the ability to use tools, a civilization of Raptors couldn't build buildings and computers. That's a whole other set of miracles. So it's not impossible that there's life or even intelligent life somewhere out there but I wouldn't put money on it, and definitely not that they would ever be able to make contact or vice versa.