„Warum wir vielleicht allein sind“ Öffentliche Vorlesung von Prof. David Kipping an der Columbia University

This is a pretty bad argument. He’s basically saying “because of math, if i change the numbers in the equation it says we are alone.”

One question that I hope will be answered in my life time.

How common is the most basic forms of life? I’ve heard arguments that its everywhere there’s liquid water, possibly even places without liquid water.

But then others have argued that abiogenesis is essentially nearly impossible, and that’s the great filter that prevents there being intelligent life throughout the universe.

So far I feel we’ve only really ever looked on Earth, we’ve barely done any looking on the Moon or Mars, and I’m not optimistic about the moon or mars.

Once we look at Ganymede, Europa, Enceladus. I’ll feel a lot more confident in just how common the most basic forms of life are.

As much as we like to think we’re special, we’re not. There’s countless life out there and the conditions to create it are unlikely unique to our planet.

Never mind that consciousness doesn’t need to be carbon based like us. It could take many different forms.