/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10256408]

>it's statistically impossible we are alone in the universe
When will this meme die? How are they coming up with this statistic?

[Anonymous No.10256430]

We exist in a galaxy, therefore the probability that life exists in a galaxy is greater than 0, let the probability that life exists in some galaxy be x
The universe is infinite with infinitely many galaxies, so the amount of galaxies with life is infinity times x, or infinity
t. high IQ genius

[Anonymous No.10256533]

>>10256430
Yea but proteins are complex, yo.

What if the typical time for biogenesis to have a 50%+ chance to occur is 400 billion years for any given primordial soup planet.

t. higher IQ genius

[Anonymous No.10256555]

>>10256430
>the universe is infinite
no
Still, with the sheer size of the universe and the amount of planets that are able to harbor life, it's statistically imposible that we are alone, talking always about simple, unicellular life, intelligent life it's a whole another story.

[Anonymous No.10256683]

>>10256533
It happened once here in approximately 14 billion years, theres no reason to believe we are special. Life may be incredibly rare, but the universe is so vast that it doesnt matter.

t. highest IQ genius

[Anonymous No.10256692]

>>10256533
Nigga, really? It took Earth less than half of 1 billion years for life to first appear after liquid oceans appeared.

t. 100.5 IQ genius

[Anonymous No.10256693]

>>10256408
prove otherwise

[Anonymous No.10256747]

You are deluded beyond belief if you think the universe isn't a progressively scaling intersubjective fantasy.

[Anonymous No.10256862]

>>10256408
The statistic is derived from the Drake Equation and is based on a bastardized understanding of evolution, thinking organisms just "evolve to" be intelligence, which is fantastical and sounds more like The Force, rather than it being survival of the fittest and the fluke of hundreds of trillions of mutations, arriving totally at random Sentience itself isn't favorable for survival of a species given that it introduces the assessment of futility.
All it would have taken is a single ancestor with a single gene related to intelligence not to procreate and we would be apes still.
If you were to calculate the billions of genetic mutations that led up to this point, the survival of them, the ability for it to procreate, to arrive at the human condition, it would be beyond the number of stars in the sky, beyond estimable planets in the universe. There is a reason why we do not hear Alien chatter, and it's not because they are "too smart so they hide it", but rather because the simplest explanation is that we are the only life that exists. AyyyLMAOs retards are actually worse than (intelligent) religious people, and are just putting blind faith in the assumption that Aliens exist, to which is based on some appeal to probability, forgetting to question what is the probability that evolutionary development of man The concept of probability guaranteed extraterrestrial life is laughable to anyone who has a serious understanding of genetics and evolutionary biology. There is a reason why pop-sci brainlets LOVE contemplating the existence of aliens.
>>10256683
fallacy of antecedent

[Anonymous No.10256878]

the apparance of life in the universe as whole is an improbable event, there should be no life anywhere else.

[Anonymous No.10256885]

>>10256862
>There is a reason why we do not hear Alien chatter, and it's not because they are "too smart so they hide it", but rather because the simplest explanation is that we are the only life that exists.
Damn, I was expecting you to assert something along the lines of, 'because God never mentions aliens in the Bible, he never made them. Checkmate atheists!'

[Anonymous No.10256973]

>>10256408
That's not how statistics work OP

[Anonymous No.10257084]

>>10256430
Either statistics is fundamentally flawed or you're retarded.