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Drake Equation, Abiogenesis and Aliens
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<blockquote data-quote="mindlight" data-source="post: 75983094" data-attributes="member: 21246"><p>The Drake Equation <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation" target="_blank">is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.</a></em></p><p></p><p>It is founded on the premise that because life spontaneously developed here on earth it must also have done so elsewhere in the universe. Indeed the only real evidence for the equation has been that life exists on this planet. Naturalistically it is assumed that it developed from inorganic origins. But there is no actual demonstrable experiment or proof by which this can be verified.</p><p></p><p>On the basis of this rather shaky foundation comes the view that aliens and alien civilizations must exist. Despite the best efforts of SETI and our solar system explorations no evidence for the existence of aliens actually exists.</p><p></p><p>So simple question:</p><p><strong>Given the shaky foundations and dubious assumptions made here, why do so many scientists believe in the existence of aliens and even extraterrestrial origin accounts for life? Why is so much money invested in investigating this possibility e.g. in Space programs? Why is the idea that aliens exist so deeply entrenched in the modern mind?</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mindlight, post: 75983094, member: 21246"] The Drake Equation [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation']is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.[/URL][/I] It is founded on the premise that because life spontaneously developed here on earth it must also have done so elsewhere in the universe. Indeed the only real evidence for the equation has been that life exists on this planet. Naturalistically it is assumed that it developed from inorganic origins. But there is no actual demonstrable experiment or proof by which this can be verified. On the basis of this rather shaky foundation comes the view that aliens and alien civilizations must exist. Despite the best efforts of SETI and our solar system explorations no evidence for the existence of aliens actually exists. So simple question: [B]Given the shaky foundations and dubious assumptions made here, why do so many scientists believe in the existence of aliens and even extraterrestrial origin accounts for life? Why is so much money invested in investigating this possibility e.g. in Space programs? Why is the idea that aliens exist so deeply entrenched in the modern mind?[/B] [/QUOTE]
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