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Originally Posted by supernova1965
Yes there is a history of earthquakes as well as moonquakes and planetquakes throughout the Solar system. Going by this evidence I am confident in saying that quakes happen throughout the Universe.
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Ie: there is a history of past quakes … so there is a basis to extrapolate from.
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Originally Posted by supernova1965
I can't prove that life exists or doesn't I can't prove that quakes happen in the universe or not but you haven't provided any proof to say that either don't exist and until you can do that they both exist and don't exist as with Schrödinger's cat.
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I'm not arguing that these things
don't exist ! You seem to keep pinning this on me .. you've got the wrong target !
There is simply no evidence of exo-life to base rational statements about probabilities of their existence upon.
It is thus unpredictable.
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Originally Posted by supernova1965
Unlike you I do care whether life exists or not and if scientists didn't care whether something was true or not they wouldn't bother to try to prove it one way or the other.
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I have no problems in acknowledging the human motivations for scientific investigation. Curiosity and belief clearly provides the impetus and probably the momentum. I don't consider this to be particularly earth-shattering news, though …
Cheers