Alien cover up

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Don't be daft.  Of course there are aliens.  In a universe as vast as this one, chock-a-block with planets, it borders on intellectual perversity to state that ours is the only planet with life on it.

Boru

Well, Imagine you came across a gazillion water bottles all empty but one.
You look at the one bottle that is filled with water and you do the math - there are at least a gazillion bottles here, so if there is water in one of the bottles then there must be water in at least another bottle.

Yeah... no.

You're looking at it rather too simplistically.  Instead of simply a gazillion water bottles, imagine that some of those water bottles exist in conditions conducive to condensation.  Suppose further that only a tiny fraction of your water bottles exist in such conditions, say around 1/10 of one percent.  Since I'm not entirely sure what 0.001 of a gazillion is, let's opt for 'trillion' instead (the idea of a trillion planets doesn't seem terribly far fetched).  Ok, so 1% of a trillion is ten billion.  One tenth of that is one billion.

Your claim that out of a billion bottles existing in conditions conducive to containing water none of them will contain water is impressively stupid.  If there are a billion planets conducive to life, the odds are decidedly in favour of life appearing on at least a few of them.

Yeah...yes.

Boru