I wish he'd stop making philosophy majors look bad.
People who do not understand the math involved in both the timespans we're talking about and the spaces we're talking about sound very silly when they
comment on the probability of extraterrestrial life. As if experiments done in laboratories in the last century somehow can approximate the conditions that
occured over hundreds of millions of years; as if our piddly knowledge of a few planets around us is any more than infinitesimal fraction of what's in the
Milky Way, as if the Milky Way itself is not the equivalent of one grain of sand on a beach.
He also, like most people, has no comprehension of how ridiculously hard "colonising the galaxy" would be even for a civilisation significantly more
advanced than our own.
People who do not understand the math involved in both the timespans we're talking about and the spaces we're talking about sound very silly when they
comment on the probability of extraterrestrial life. As if experiments done in laboratories in the last century somehow can approximate the conditions that
occured over hundreds of millions of years; as if our piddly knowledge of a few planets around us is any more than infinitesimal fraction of what's in the
Milky Way, as if the Milky Way itself is not the equivalent of one grain of sand on a beach.
He also, like most people, has no comprehension of how ridiculously hard "colonising the galaxy" would be even for a civilisation significantly more
advanced than our own.