New Study Estimates the Odds of Life and Intelligence Emerging Beyond Our Planet

[gary]

A 20th May 2020 news story (https://news.columbia.edu/life-intelligence-universe-earth-bayesian-statistics) at Columbia University by Carlo Cantor
reports on a new study by David Kipping, an assistant professor in
Columbia’s Department of Astronomy, in trying to estimate the probability
of life and intelligent life elsewhere by applying a statistical technique called Bayesian inference.



Story here :-
https://news.columbia.edu/life-intelligence-universe-earth-bayesian-statistics



Research article at Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences entitled
"An objective Bayesian analysis of life’s early start and our late arrival" by David Kipping :-
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/05/12/1921655117

[glend]

Thanks Gary. I don't know that those odds are actually panning out here on Earth. Look around, geez, it is depressing.

[multiweb]

More reasons to pull our fingers and nurture the little we have left.