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Old 08-19-2005, 06:06 AM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: Either Life Exists Elsewhere or The Universe is finite.

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adamstewart --

We are life. We exist. Therefore, the probability that life exists is greater than zero.


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I'm not sure that follows. Pick a number from 0 to 1 at random from a uniform distribution. Say the number is q. We might be like that q. q was picked. Does that mean the probabilty of q being picked is nonzero? Nope.

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