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1/3 of poasters believe humanity has encountered alien life
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:28 AM Author: ferengi based on the 21 poasters who answered my poll before i counted up the results, at least: https://ibb.co/W7hd31N
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:30 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag That's a crazy statistic if you really think about it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175340) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:37 AM Author: ferengi high or low? when i ran this IRL it was 60% (6 out of 10) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175348) |
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Date: October 8th, 2026 2:56 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag Considering aliens are 100% not real and have never been detected and have zero chance of ever being discovered or proven beyond a reasonable doubt I'd say yeah that's pretty high for pure speculation without evidence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50177799) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:37 AM Author: ferengi oh ok if you say so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179748) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:41 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag One more word out of you and I'm going to consider your opinions thoughtfully and reflect upon them with kindness and consideration. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179756) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:44 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat are you using a definition of aliens that has to mean things that fly spaceships to Earth? because based on the current scientific evidence there is already like a 70% chance that there used to be life on mars and a pretty high chance maybe 30-50% chance that there is life right now elsewhere in the solar system (like europa or Enceladus). and obviously if you count the entire galaxy, nevermind other galaxies there is going to be a ton of life just going by numbers. The idea that Earth is the only planet with life in the entire observable universe is extraordinarily implausible. I just can't take it seriously at all. I don't consider it an intellectually serious position. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179763) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:45 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag Where is the evidence of life on Mars? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179767) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:47 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat Used to be. NASA discovered potential microbial biosignatures in a Martian rock called Cheyava Fall. Very strong chance there was ancient life there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179770) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:49 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag From Ibiza to the Norfolk broads (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179772) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:51 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat How hard do you think it can possibly be to bootstrap bacteria on a planet with conditions similar to Earth? Can't be that difficult given how soon it appeared after Earth's formation. And also considering complex life might be a more difficult bottleneck and we have had multiple geological events that wiped most life off the planet and it still regenerated. The siberian traps killed like 90% of life on Earth, and evolution reinvented entire new ecosystems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179774) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:55 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag I think we know absolutely nothing about abiogenisis and the odds of it happening anywhere else in the universe is exactly zero. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179787) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:00 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat Well if we know nothing about it then your claim is retarded, because we would have to know quite a bit about it to explain why Earth is uniquely inhabited among an astronomical number of planets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179802) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:02 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag That's a facile argument. There could be a a trillion times more planets in the solar system and none of them could have life. Until we have some answer as to how it happened it would be ridiculous to speculate that it would just happen a lot of times given a near infinite universe. The only thing we know for sure is it happened once and there are a lot of planets. Those are the only claims we can make without wild speculation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179807) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:08 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat You are falling back on wild speculation for your argument, like "what if the moon were made of cheese". Saying "there could be a a trillion times more planets in the solar system and none of them could have life", is no different than saying there could be a trillion times more planets and every single one has life.
You're the one who originally assigned a probability of exactly zero to extraterrestrial life. That's an astonishingly confident conclusion for someone whose entire argument now rests on how little we know. |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:19 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag If they can prove that Mars thing it's a big step towards alien life. The gap between one planet and multiplanet is huge. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179840) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:27 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat I think there is a good chance, but what they have right now isn't enough. The patterns on the rocks could plausibly have had non-living mechanisms. There are some scientists who already consider it "proof", but they are in the minority. But I'm confident the overall probability there was life on mars is pretty high. We'll see, they still haven't even tested all the rocks yet. The evidence could easily be in rocks already collected. We have found rock samples in Earth that still have signs of life preserved after billions of years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179847) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 2:28 AM Author: Pontificating out-of-control famous landscape painting nowag We gotta test the rocks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179849) |
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Date: October 10th, 2026 3:31 PM Author: spectacular erotic indian lodge tank Panspermia is interesting, but for definitive proof that life can evolve elsewhere, I think you're almost certainly want to look beyond our solar system (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50182169) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:35 AM Author: Frum people who are hurt dingle berry You never met a jew? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175346) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:36 AM Author: Frum people who are hurt dingle berry Lol at how bad that chart was set up jfc put in some effort in the things you do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175347) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:38 AM Author: ferengi ? i just used excel because that's where i counted up the results (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175349) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:40 AM Author: Frum people who are hurt dingle berry But I did have breakfast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175350) |
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Date: October 7th, 2026 12:42 AM Author: ferengi what should i use for my chart if i do another xo poll? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50175351) |
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Date: October 8th, 2026 2:51 AM Author: ferengi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50177797) |
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Date: October 8th, 2026 2:55 AM Author: spectacular erotic indian lodge tank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50177798) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:51 AM Author: Hot Scarlet Range Turdskin Far more likely than the existence of a “God”. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179777) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:52 AM Author: Racy orange trailer park kitty cat Yeah well not a high bar on that one (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179780) |
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Date: October 9th, 2026 1:53 AM Author: ferengi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5910402&forum_id=2#50179782) |