A memorable piece of science reporting from the BBC:
While researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, it is a process fraught with guesswork; recent guesses put the number anywhere between a million and less than one.
Which, for your entertainment, is followed by
“It’s a process of quantifying our ignorance,” said Duncan Forgan, the University of Edinburgh researcher who carried out the work.
Indeed. Read the full post here.
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February 7, 2009 at 7:14 am
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Ahhhh silly little humans. Science barley even knows what the hell dark matter is and yet it takes up most of our universe. “If a man is blind and cannot see color, does it mean that bright the color red does not exist?” a.r.
There are multitudes of dimensions out there which science is only just beginning to grasp. Multilpy that number with the many dimensions and tell me then that its only 1 million.
February 7, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Geoff
Thanks, though it was the ‘less than one’ side of the estimate that caught my attention.
October 5, 2010 at 1:24 am
Clyde
“Multitudes of dimensions out there,” eh, Dog Food?
Where, ‘out’ in our mathematical models?