[extropy-chat] Re: cosmic silence

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Russell Wallace <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but you have zero evidence for that estimate. There's no reason
> at all to believe it to be e.g. 1e-6 rather than 1e-60, other than
> that you (in general, not just you personally) _want_ it to be the
> higher number. Which goes back to my puzzlement - why do so many
> people want there to be aliens in our galaxy?

Why do you want there to not be aliens?

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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