Re: Relevant - Plate Tectonics Might Only Occur on 0.003% of Planets. That Makes Earth Very Special Indeed.

On Sat, 6 Jul 2024 10:24:52 +1200, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

Much snippage.
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On 6/07/24 03:18, Paul S Person wrote:

1. Certain people believe -- firmly, passionately, and religiously
believe -- that We Are Not Alone. This /must/ be true, they say, it
just /must/ be true.

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You seem to be implying that all such people are nutters but my general
understanding is that many credible believers do so because of
statistics, the incomprehensible, to me, number of planets possible.
Restricting that to a further three in a thousand will not change that
belief.

They /are/ nutters. They literally have no idea at all what they are
talking about. It is all smoke and mirrors.

I once sparked a never-ending thread "Jesus Holds the Atoms Together"
on another newsgroup while working my way through an early "proof"
that we only exist because a certain set of constants have the values
they have by observing that a term denoting "probability that
universes in which the values would not allow life but life
nonetheless exists" appeared in a /denominator/. Since the value of
that should be "0", this blew up the entire argument (the value of the
term it was in was now "undefined" since that is what division by 0
gets you, and so everything it was connected to was also "undefined").
The thread explored the theory that such universes /do/ exist and we
are in one. We exist (the theory continued) because God Himself forces
each and every one of the constants into a value (and a set of values
collectively) that allows life to exist.

Nutters are nutters. They are everywhere. Most of them are quite
harmless. Many are a having lot of fun. Some are not.

We now have nutters that support terrorism and hate Jews on /both/
ends of the political spectrum. Those are not harmless.

But nutters desperately looking for reasons why, in a Universe
allegedly teeming with life, we hare having such a hard time finding
it, are harmless.

Adam Roberts addresses and solves the Fermi Paradox in the final part of
Jack Glass.

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"