[dragnet2]

I would venture to say that BILLIONS of people doubt there is intelligent alien life in the Milky Way galaxy.

Billions of those people can't count change at the local big cow slop joint, or even point to where the center of their own home galaxy is....But they doubt intelligent life exists on any of the billions of planets in the galaxy?

What a hoot.

[Dr. Sivana]

I would venture to say that BILLIONS of people doubt there is intelligent alien life in the Milky Way galaxy.

Billions of those people can't count change at the local big cow slop joint, or even point to where the center of their own home galaxy is....But they doubt intelligent life exists on any of the billions of planets in the galaxy?

Well, you might say it's a hoot, but it still is a stupid, easily disprovable statement for the author of the original piece to claim that practically everybody believes that there is intelligent alien life in our galaxy. When the author makes such an obvious factual error, it undermines everything he posits afterwards, as his judgement must be called into question.

Of course, there are plenty of folks who can't count change who do believe that there is intelligent alien life in the galaxy, as there are millions of people who CAN count change who are on both sides of the fence.

Discounting incorporeal beings (angels, God, etc.) I doubt you would get a majority of Freepers who believe based only on the number of planets in the galaxy, that there is intelligent alien life elsewhere in the Milky Way.