Petal_Chatoyance t1_j0ypkhg wrote
I used to think it wrong, but I am increasingly convinced of the Rare Earth Hypothesis - that life is exceedingly unlikely to occur, and when it does, even more exceedingly unlikely to develop into a technological species. So very many incredibly unlikely things have to be just precisely right for a tech species like humans to rise up. I find it more and more reasonable that earth may literally be the only planet with advanced life forms in the entire cosmos.
soon-it-will-be-2030 t1_j0ypo6a wrote
rare earth is a good contender, I would also agree, but doesn't that mean that there's still a possibility of an advanced species?
Petal_Chatoyance t1_j0ysfhw wrote
If by 'possibility' you mean a '1' divided by a number greater than Graham's Number, then sure. By 'rare', I mean desperately rare. Rare beyond human imagination. Rare enough that quintillions of universes could bloom and only one have a species capable of technology.
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