(November 3, 2014 at 4:53 pm)dimaniac Wrote:(November 3, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Sure. But how many of them does abiogenesis occur on? What percentage of those result in civilizations. There could be a civilization per galaxy (100 billion civilizations) and we are far from the point of being able to detect a civilization in another galaxy that isn't a Type III civilization on the Kardashev scale.100 billion civilizations and none of them reached Type III?
How would we know? Given the distances involved, entire civilizations could have risen and fallen to dust by the time we gained the ability to even realize the planet is there. That's the problem with your immensely simplistic view of all this; it's not like we can just swing a telescope upward and see what's happening on another planet right this second, and any potential civilization out there would be facing precisely the same limitation.
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