Probability we’re the only intelligent life ever? Really low, say astronomers

May 1, 2016

Probability we’re the only intelligent life ever? Really low, say astronomers

Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: alien life, information science

A new paper shows that the recent discoveries of exoplanets, plus a revised Drake’s equation, produces a new, empirically valid probability of whether any other advanced civilizations have ever existed.

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Bennie Beaver says:

May 1, 2016 at 5:06 pm

Once an advance civilization has passed Kurzweil’s singularity who can know the mind of a God like being, and its desires, or even its need/desire to travel to places it can create at home.

Anything/element can be created out of a supply of hydrogen long as it last. Calculate the likelihood such a civilization would want to travel like T.V. series “Star Trek”? Would such God like being really want to be discovered?

Considering the laws of nature are ubiquitous, & all things/condition in universe can be created at home in a virtual reality, why take the risk and go where no man has gone before?