spasmous wrote:

Mecallie <none@xx.cc> wrote in message news:<cet257$rqp$1@news5.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>...

I do not know what the chances of intelligent ET life existing in our galaxy are, maybe slim, maybe pretty decent. But I do know that the chances of intelligent ET life existing anywhere in the universe are waaaaaay bigger then it *not*  existing anywhere.

Uh, tell me how that goes again, you know P(x) >> P(y) without knowing
P(x) or P(y). Sounds like rationality stopped working here ;)

<SNIP>
And yet, you can tell me, without knowing any more variables than I do, that there is no chance of ET life existing anywhere else?

Howcome that the unknown works in your favour and not mine?
Probably because you think you are right, as do I. Just remember: we both just *think*  we are :)

Mark