techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Jono wrote:
Not necessarily in the next 20 years. However, their argument is that the more Earth-like planets there are in the galaxy, the more statistically likely it is that extra-terrestial life could exist and even possibly intelligent life with high technological capability. It's based on the Drake equation and they've been making the same arguments ever since SETI first started. Only that before, we weren't certain how many planets and other solar systems were in the galaxy because the first known exoplanet was only discovered in 1994.
Lol, right, but the odds of us sending signals and getting a response back only would have been re-estimated by us, it wouldn't have 'changed'.
I was baffled by what it was...that baffled you...about the article.
Is THAT it?
Is THAT all that your post is about?
The fact that you still havent learned not to take everything that grownups say literally?
When someone gets new info and responds by saying "that changes the odds of such and such" they don't generally mean that the information itsself somehow literally "changes the odds". It just shorthand for saying that "now I have become aware that the odds are different from what I thought before".
"Magical thinking" has nothing to do with it.