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Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Alone as in the only life across the entire universe ? Absolutely not.
Alone as in the only intelligent life form across the universe?
A lot more plausible but still unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Excluding a mass cataclysm (nuclear war, a hyper destructive pathogen), I think we'll find evidence of extra-terrestrial life (if not life itself) in our own solar system in the next ~100 years.

I would think somewhere out in the universe there is (was?) intelligent life.

We've only confirmed exoplanets in the last ~40 years and the information we have is minimal (and biased towards gas giant type planets).

There has to be intelligent life somewhere in the universe.