Social Odds for life in at least 2 galaxies are ~100% (near certainty)

[Madmick]

Here's a video I watched just a week or two ago that is relevant to this thread. Worth a watch:

 

[Gene Tunney]

Wake me when the aliens get here...again

They won't.

Light speed is too slow.

 

[Starck]

This is fair, but they are developing a pretty compelling picture of LUCA based on genealogical evidence. It's an estimation, but it's not like it was summoned out of the ether. It's based on highly detailed and well-reasoned arguments.

As for developing estimates of probability simply because we understand how the chemistry of an environment tends to evolve from starter material (provided by a star) and known chemical reactions...yeah, I don't get that. And it becomes impossibly vague when it comes to developing estimates of how often that evolves into intelligence since we essentially have a grand sample size of one for that.YI'm not implying intelligent creation or anything like that. As long as

Never knew the LUCA acronym, or else forgot it - made for an interesting read. My main takeaway is that the LUCA already showed signs of an early immune system, which means it was living among other organisms. So there were obviously other earlier things going on that led to that point.

 

[WINGNUT]

So, theoretically, if humans found an Earth like planet we could technically send robots with genetic engineering science capabilities to create humans to populate it?

Eh maybe that's a little too far out there.

yep, both retarded and stupid...

 

[Domitian]

yep, both retarded and stupid...

Guilty as charged.

But seriously, it's a theoretical question and were nowhere near that level of technology. But it seems more realistic than sending humans on some 500 year journey to populate a planet that could potentially harbor human life.