RE: Odds of intelligent life occuring?
September 20, 2017 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2017 at 9:08 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 20, 2017 at 5:06 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 20, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It is not convincingly from ET. We have no fricking clue whether it is from ET or not.
One burst of random noise coming from the Universe. Which way would you bet?
Betting is not the same as betting in a informed way. Our knowledge of the frequency, capability and behavior of intelligent life on the one hand, and the range of manifestations of non-intelligence driven processes in the universe on the other, is each so scarce that we are really not in a position to compare the odds of one being the cause of WOW vs the other.
(September 20, 2017 at 5:08 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(September 20, 2017 at 4:27 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It is not convincingly from ET. We have no fricking clue whether it is from ET or not.
I agree with that. But, the Big Ear is now a golf course. If it was an ET beacon and had we been looking continuously since it was discovered in 1977, it may have been the greatest discovery of all time. May have done more for international peace and goodwill than the International Space Station and McDonald's combined!
If you think humans on the whole are susceptible to being inspired towards international peace and goodwill by a discovery that fundamentally alters humans' perception of their place in the universe, then there must be ETs and you must be one yourself.
