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s1ngular1ty2 t1_iwl3eer wrote

I wouldn't call searching for 100 years out of 13.7 billion unsuccessful. We barely started looking...

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YourFatherUnfiltered t1_iwl3r3w wrote

Click bait articles will be click bait.

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idiggory t1_iwli3g7 wrote

New global law: you can only post a fearmongering headline if you accept being publicly punched in the nose first, with video posted within the article.

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Engineering_Flimsy t1_iwl8j8c wrote

Excellent point. It's an understandable mistake that we humans so often make, the tendency to use our own tiny lifespan as a benchmark. And even now, at the relatively advanced age of 54 years, I still routinely fall victim to this fallacy. And if I were to live another thousand years, I'd surely still be prone to this perspective.

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wwarnout t1_iwlbkum wrote

Or, another way to look at it - we have not (yet) found life on the handful of planets we've examined, out of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. That's like examining a few grains of sand, and drawing conclusions about all the sand on Earth (although those grains only account for a small fraction of the number of planets).

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