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1413 points mooreds | 2 comments | 21 Oct 24 20:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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bikamonki ◴[21 Oct 24 23:55 UTC] No.41909790[source]▶
So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.
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alok-g ◴[22 Oct 24 11:57 UTC] No.41913384[source]▶
>> No proof but no doubt.

There's still doubt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Range_of_result...

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1. slekker ◴[22 Oct 24 12:37 UTC] No.41913619[source]▶
What we know about mathematics can't prove or disprove things we simply don't have any idea of. Think as if other beings would live in a different frequency plane (outside of our 3 spacial + 1 time), our instruments and theorems can't detect that.
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2. alok-g ◴[22 Oct 24 12:52 UTC] No.41913731[source]▶
That's right. But it does create doubt.

To prove, we would need to find such life.

To not have doubt, we need to have a reasonably high confidence that such life is there. However, the estimates are so wild and range from very unlikely to no-doubt. Thus, there is doubt (to the best we understand).