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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
I want to believe!
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Same here...
And I would like to witness the discovery of at least microbial life forms (on Mars?) but this is unlikely, I am afraid..
However, as for existence of intelligent life (in our Milky Way), Fermi paradox is the best evidence suggesting the opposite, that we have so far, unfortunately.
I was following the work of Milan Cirkovic for some time, he is trying to explain Fermi paradox by proposing the regular sterilisation of the large areas of Galaxy by GRB's, or some other events (including self-destruction of civilisations).. even the re-evaluation of the whole concept of SETI (
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506110)
But, all this is based on BELIEF that life is abundant and that it MUST happen... and that Fermi paradox is a genuine paradox. But what if it isn't?
We simply don't know.. we even don't HOW life started here, on our own Earth.
So, in principle I am with Craig here: the whole discussion is quite meaningless.