Extraterrestrial life

[ATFFL]

Pretty sure their is..but I don't believe it has visited here.

The surest sign there is intelligent life on other planets is that they have yet to visit here.

[ATFFL]

Pretty sure their is..but I don't believe it has visited here.

The surest sign there is intelligent life on other planets is that they have yet to visit here.

You stole that directly from Calvin and Hobbes.

I knew someone would get that and I suspected it would be you.

[ATFFL]

No. The possibility of simple lime indays of antiquity or now is one which I often consider, but I doubt that intelliigent life exists beyond our planet.

After reading your post, I have doubts about it existing on our planet.

[ATFFL]

"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"

Indeed.

[ATFFL]

"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"

Indeed.

Quit attacking my bad spelling.

I had to.  It was in a comment on intelligent life.  Too good to pass up.

[ATFFL]

"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"

Indeed.

Quit attacking my bad spelling.

I had to.  It was in a comment on intelligent life.  Too good to pass up.

If you wanted to be really picky, you could also point out that that's a comma splice.

I could have, but the classic line always had a comma.  Comma splicing is too common to pick on people for.  I expect the rule to be dropped from English in a few generations.

[ATFFL]

The Drake equation, with even somewhat conservative estimates, would yield a relatively large number of planets with intelligent life, and an even larger number of planets on which life arose. Drake himself estimates 10,000 intelligent civilizations.

Consider this very long list of criteria that have to be within very tight tolerences in order for intelligent, complex life to exist.  There are now 154 of them:

http://www.reasons.org/resources/apologetics/design_evidences/200406_fine_tuning_for_life_on_earth.shtml

That list is not what is needed for compex life to exist, but for complex life to exist in precisely earthlike conditions.  If we do find solid evidence of life elsewhere in the solar system, even simple life, we can safely assume that the universe is not so precise that only Earth and Earth clones can support life.