reply to post by Brainiac
In regards to your 95% no comment:
Holy Jeeze, dude. That is some of the worst logic I have ever seen.
You claim that there is life throughout our Solar System but nowhere else?
You claim that because Earth is at the 6 billion mark in a 10 billion (wrong) lifespan of outward expansion that we are NECESSARILY the oldest species
in the universe?!
You give that probability 95%?!
That is ridiculous. Realistically, given your numbers, there is 40% of the universe older than we are.
Considering that we only have one example to go by, our Solar System, that is studied to any sort of sufficiency to judge by and life exists here (us)
one can only conclude that life is at least POSSIBLE in ALL star systems.
Meaning that, given your numbers, we would be just above average on the universal scale.
And that sounds about right to me.
Just above average. I want to meet the guys that have been around since nearly the begining!
And this also doesn't account for several other possibilities.
Evolutional advancement vs. cosmological hinderance. IE, asteroid strikes rendering a developing species extinct immediately.
If you factor THIS into the equation, you realize that a planet with life only half the length of ours could advance BEYOND OUR OWN EASILY if
conditions weighed in their favor.
Back to reading, just wanted to throw that in.