From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Tue Jul 27 1999 - 13:44:46 MDT
paul@i2.to writes:
> I'm not sure I agree with this. The universe is in fact extremely large, with our
> galaxy making up a very small part of it. It is possible that space-faring
> intelligences are so rare that they only pop up in 1 out of 1000 galaxies.
In such a scenario we're walking the line between life being very rare
or nonexistant.
In fact, I don't mind the fact of us being alone: the more space for
us to expand into until we run into someone else. However, history
teaches us to be wary of anthropocentrism: this system almost
certainly is not very special. Perhaps intelligence is as commond as
stellar dirt.
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