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jetstobrazil t1_j1mx83c wrote

Reply to comment by PeePeeCockroach in Is the Milky Way... Normal? by cciccitrixx

Known to us, a single inhabitant in the boonies of one arm of the Milky Way who has done little to even try to check besides a little bit of radio wave monitoring

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PeePeeCockroach t1_j2e82up wrote

I get that you and many people want something to be true, but without even the smallest bit of evidence otherwise, it remains just an unverified and untested theory.

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jetstobrazil t1_j2ehi5x wrote

Lol I don’t have a want for anything to be true, only to know what is.

My comment was based on scale. To say the Milky Way is the only galaxy known to contain life is true. But only to us, who have done very little in the way of exploring, know very little about what could possibly be out there, have an extremely limited number of resources to use to even begin to search for life, and have only barely begun to use them to do so.

Out of the millions of galaxies, the billions of stars and planets, which could potentially contain life, we have barely searched 2 planets with rovers, and have only searched for alien life through radio waves otherwise.

What I’m saying is we are trying to find a needle in a haystack, have done a once over of a single straw of hay next to us, and declared there are no needles in this haystack.

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PeePeeCockroach t1_j2ej6ay wrote

The explanation is not necessary, I understand your position, but our understanding of how life emerged is not advanced enough to form any such conclusions based on scale. It is just as likely we're alone. There is zero evidence that life emerged anywhere else.

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jetstobrazil t1_j2emsov wrote

Well you misstated it, so that’s why included it. I’ve not reached any conclusions, I’m merely stating that it is very strange to pretend that us humans can say the Milky Way is the only galaxy known to contain life, having barely peered elsewhere in the immensity, and knowing so little. There is also zero evidence that life emerged here. Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum of space, so it is just as likely that life came from elsewhere as it spontaneously emerging here.

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PeePeeCockroach t1_j2eoavv wrote

>Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum of space

they survived 10 days in vacuum, that doesn't prove they can survive indefinitely, and panspermia is pseduoscience...

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