[FONT=“Georgia”]No.
If there are eight funky boxes on the table. You open the lid of each of them, peep inside, and find that seven out of eight are empty, but one has a pink rabbit inside.
When you sit down, you look across the table and find, oops, there was another box there you didn’t open yet.
Would you say that, because there was a pink rabbit in one of the funky boxes, there must absolutely be a pink rabbit in that ninth one too?
Or would you instead say, because most of the funky boxes seen so far are empty, it is more likely that remaining one is also empty?[/FONT]
There’s no evidence to support that other civilisations have or do exist, there I postulate that there are none. Whether you subscribe to the mathematical likelyhood of there being other civilisations or not is irrelevant isn’t it, we still don’t see them.
[FONT=“Georgia”]I don’t disagree with you there.
I’d like to think that because there are possibly tens of billions of funky boxes in the neighbourhood, that it’s possible that at least one more has something in it, yellow rabbit, purple hamster, red frog, but until we observe something else I’d have to say that, despite my feelings, I can’t call it a fact.
BUT…
Out of the eight funky boxes that were on table, only one (the one with the rabbit) was perfectly formed and in tact (In fact there was also a big green check on it too, and a smiley face drawn with a marker-pen). The first two boxes were fried, the fourth was in the freezer, the fifth, sixth and seventh were squashed flat, the eighth was sunk in a water tank.
Out of the billions of funky boxes out there, we’ve so far seen a couple hundred, and most of those were squashed flat, or frozen or burnt. A handful were perfectly formed with green checks and smiley faces drawn on the side. But we’ve been unable to peek inside any of those ones yet.
If we can, and we find we can reliably find critters inside several of them, then we can say, “It’s likely that all funky boxes with green checks and smileys have animals inside.”
We’re not there yet though. Out of all the funky boxes with green checks and smileys we’ve seen, we’ve only been able to peek inside one. Just one. That same one on the table. So we can’t make any factual conclusions yet.
I’d like to believe that many of those perfectly formed funky boxes have creatures, but my liking to think that still doesn’t make my feelings a fact.[/FONT]
but actually you can postulate on ‘nothing’ that’s exactly what the Fermi paradox is based on, a whole lot of nothing.
[FONT=“Georgia”]I don’t get you, you know.
I just spent several posts trying to tell you that Fermi Paradox whatever is bunk and here you are telling me the same, as though I was the one defending it.
It’s bunk. It’s bull’. The Drake Equation thingy is bull’ too.
Do we actually disagree?
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