[daler]

Take every grain of sand on Waikiki Beach and multiply it by ten times or more and that’s how many galaxies there are in our known universe, give or take a few billion.

And it’s reasonable to believe that we’re alone?

[johniegrad]

And it’s reasonable to believe that we’re alone?

There is no evidence that we are not.

[AnglePark]

No, it’s not reasonable to believe we’re alone. It’s far, far more probable that we’re not alone.

Absolutely nothing in the observable universe happens just once, and that fact alone should lead folks to believe that life is just as abundant as everything else. Inductive reasoning brought me to that conclusion a long time ago.

[frogjerk]

Take every grain of sand on Waikiki Beach and multiply it by ten times or more and that’s how many galaxies there are in our known universe, give or take a few billion. And it’s reasonable to believe that we’re alone?

Yes, it is. Because of one simple point. Like the song says, "nothing from nothing leaves nothing" - Non-life to life cannot happen by itself.

[frogjerk]

The Drake equation is wrong.