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re: this is mind blowing
Posted on 9/5/14 at 2:14 pm to 82fumanchu
Posted on 9/5/14 at 2:14 pm to 82fumanchu
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Define "life" though. Sure there has to be some form of bacteria, plants, basic life, etc. on other planets but aliens and civilization I'm not so sure. Y'all ever think that as vast as the universe is, maybe the probability for earth to develop life as it has, the probability was 1 and astronomical/infinite odds?
The chance of you being alive are among those odds. Seriously think about it. You are 1 amongst the tens of billions of sperm your dad has produced as well as among the thousands of eggs your mother did. That probability of you forming are easily in the trillions. In essence, we've all won the lottery at one point by simply existing. Then add your parents, and their parents, and so on and so forth for millions of years, and the chances that you are alive are less than in the millions of trillions.
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Posted on 9/5/14 at 2:54 pm to OMLandshark
You're right about the chances of a person being alive today over the millions of other avenues that could have been and winning the lottery. I see that argument as more of a dichotomous key where, though there are millions of roads to chose, you have to chose one. That one road brings you to chose out of other millions of roads. Rinse. Repeat. x1million.
However, I see it that you and I and everyone else are products of this improbable sequence of choices, but we are an end product of these choices. And we will make the same choices with our end results picking up and carrying on the sequence. Always having some end result.
To me, earth sustaining life is more a product of the most random, extreme, almost impossible probability of clusterfrick things having to occur perfectly to happen.
I guess in short I see it as one having order and the other having absolutely no order.
However, I see it that you and I and everyone else are products of this improbable sequence of choices, but we are an end product of these choices. And we will make the same choices with our end results picking up and carrying on the sequence. Always having some end result.
To me, earth sustaining life is more a product of the most random, extreme, almost impossible probability of clusterfrick things having to occur perfectly to happen.
I guess in short I see it as one having order and the other having absolutely no order.
This post was edited on 9/5/14 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 9/5/14 at 3:47 pm to OMLandshark
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The chance of you being alive are among those odds. Seriously think about it. You are 1 amongst the tens of billions of sperm your dad has produced as well as among the thousands of eggs your mother did. That probability of you forming are easily in the trillions. In essence, we've all won the lottery at one point by simply existing. Then add your parents, and their parents, and so on and so forth for millions of years, and the chances that you are alive are less than in the millions of trillions.
Unless your messican, then the chances of you existing greatly increase
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