(November 2, 2014 at 3:34 pm)dimaniac Wrote:(November 2, 2014 at 3:20 pm)TaraJo Wrote: 2) Placement. We're at a perfect place where none of those nasty things can kill us.There are 100 billion galaxies with 100 billion stars in every galaxy. There are plenty of perfect places in the universe
1) Not every star has planets around it
2) Not every star with planets has a planet that's just the right distance from that star to support life
3) Even if a star meets criteria 1 and 2, it can't be in a part of the galaxy that has deadly radiation or stuff like that.
There are a few others, but I can't seem to look them up right off the top of my head. The point is that there are several criteria that need to be met for a planet to support life, so, no, there won't be too many planets nearby to support life.
Now, if you wanted to argue that god exists because there's no other way all these criteria could line up by accident, at least that would be a more intelligent argument.
There aren't as many places that meet all three of those criteria. And they have to have been places that have met it for several million years.
Quote: 3) Distance. If the universe actually is infinite, yes, there is intelligent life out there. But it may very well be so far away that we'll never reach it. And vice versa; we're so far away from them, they'll never reach us.Type II civilization can easily reach any star in the galaxy.
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Uhm..... Wat? From what I understand, a type 2 civilization is dependant on a dyson sphere, which, in turn, is dependant on a star. I could see a civilization from further off being able to move to another star and build a dyson sphere, but that's all kinda hypothetical at the moment. There would be a lot of logistical issues a civilization would have to overcome to build just one dysonsphere, let alone many.
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