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Old 28-09-2011, 08:02 AM
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Greetings all !

In the hunt for exo-life discussion, I find three curious statements which can be stated with certainty:

1) the uniqueness of life to Earth can be instantly disproven with the first confirmed exo-life discovery;

2) the existence of exo-life in the universe, can never be disproven with multiple negative discoveries, no matter how vast in number these are;

3) purely mathematically speaking, the numbers of habitable environments throughout the universe, tells us nothing about the uniqueness or otherwise, of exo-life in the universe, until a single instance of exo-life is discovered in an exo-habitable zone.

Inference from beliefs taken from non-insular Earth modelled habitats, is what keeps the search going.

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