WELL THAT happened long long time ago in a galaxy far far away lol
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........ Its a Trap!
That's no moon!
I'm sure I had something pithy to say, but I've forgotten what now. It was probably mildly amusing! and I accidentally posted a blank message so now I'm editing it to not look like quite such a noob mistake
OK, let’s take this back to (possibly spurious) basic mathematics and work out the average number of live organisms per planet.
There are an infinite number of stars (and therefore planets) out there.
Our star system shows that not all planets support life. This means that there is a definite number (very big, but not infinite) of inhabited planets, because the number of inhabited planets is less than infinity.
To calculate the average number of live organisms (not intelligent, just live) per planet you take the number of inhabited planets and divide this number by infinity.
Any number divided by infinity results in zero, so there are, on average, no live organisms per planet.
Not all life forms exhibit intelligence, so the number of intelligent organisms per planet is less than zero.
Any intelligent organisms that you meet must therefore be a figment of your imagination because they don’t exist.
QED…..
There are an infinite number of stars (and therefore planets) out there.
Our star system shows that not all planets support life. This means that there is a definite number (very big, but not infinite) of inhabited planets, because the number of inhabited planets is less than infinity.
To calculate the average number of live organisms (not intelligent, just live) per planet you take the number of inhabited planets and divide this number by infinity.
Any number divided by infinity results in zero, so there are, on average, no live organisms per planet.
Not all life forms exhibit intelligence, so the number of intelligent organisms per planet is less than zero.
Any intelligent organisms that you meet must therefore be a figment of your imagination because they don’t exist.
QED…..
Goodbye and thanks for all the fish 
SO Tim youre sayin we are the only intel beings in the universe then well heaven help the universe then lol but are i beleive there is a lot of life in the universe but they dont want to know us as we are to primitve an warring all the time i mean we havnt even got a world goverment yet an i cant see it happing any time soon to unit the human race so i think they have put double yellow lines around earth an sayin not fit to commuinecate with us
chrisb
chrisb
AN Tony whats this about all the fish then please exsplain ?Goodbye and thanks for all the fish
Douglas Adams was indeed a literary genius!
Miko (resident being "far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy'' )
Miko (resident being "far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy'' )
I offer the Fermi paradox and the Drake equation
. . . or, my particular preference Deism
Miko (the theory of evolution makes no sense on close examination)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of six books" written by Douglas Adams.
Thanks Miko 
I like the maths. Only one problem. Infinity is not a number so there can't be an infinite number of planets. Therefore there is a finite number of planets. However big this number is you can only get a positive fraction when dividing it into one. No matter how small the resulting answer, it represents the probability of life elsewhere.
The Hitchhiker's Guide may be reassuring on this point, but it doesn't explain the existence of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz!
That's easy for you to say 
No Chris. What I’m saying is, on average, there is no intelligent life in the universe, so anyone you meet anywhere is a figment of your imagination……it’s a maths joke….. I actually believe there must be life on other worlds, but that the distances involved are too great for us to ever meet.
I got mine from Douglas Adams. Fermi and Drake take no account of the distances involved, so are both flawed thought experiments. Deism I will not debate here.
Evolutionary biology is not a theory. The theory was postulated by Darwin in his treatise “On the origin of species by means of natural selection” published in 1859. Since that date this theory has been tested, using both historical record and in real time, following defined scientific methodology. The findings have been peer reviewed by others that truly understand the premise under test, and has not been found wanting. In effect, Darwin put the idea forward, and has been proved him right. It is therefore accepted as scientific fact.
There may be inadvertent errors in this. I typed it while be eaten by a kitten….
Thanks for getting the reference……
Is all this in a book ?
Yes, Douglas Adam’s hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series has been on stage, screen, radio, books, and TV as I remember it. Books are best, but the BBC radio series is a close second. Film and TV were pretty poor.
I liked the tv series..... Really want to see it again now ..... Been years
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