It does make no sense that only one little blue planet out of BILLIONS and BILLIONS would develop intelligent life.
Why bother making all the others at all?
“When asked by a reporter whether she believes in a “higher intelligence looking upon us,” Stone gave a surprising take on the matter.” I’m not going to get all religion on anyone, but that ‘higher intelligence’ might be the Creator. He made a lot of things.
“Emma Stone says she believes in aliens.”
Stop the presses!
/sarc
This is a really big deal.
As an aside, I think cats can prevent alien abduction. I've got cats and I haven't been abducted. At least not recently;-).
Me too, Emma! Me too!!
She kind of looks like an alien.
What, did she give birth?
Wait, so she says she believes in aliens while doing publicity interviews for her new movie about aliens?
Whatta shock. 🙄
what is the probability that everything evolved from nothing
Glad to hear from this renowned physicist.
The tapdancing attempts to get around the Fermi Paradox simply ignore the list of ever-increasing number of factors needed for a planet to sustain intelligent life.
In addition to the obvious life-hospitable factors, such as a temperature suitable for liquid water and a suitably-sized sun, there are many more factors required for a planet to be fit for intelligent life (with more factors likely to be discovered in the future). Some of these are:
Suitable gravity for atmosphere, with appropriate pressure, to retain oxygen and water vapor but not hydrogen; suitable axis rotation rate; appropriate tilt of planet axis for seasons; suitable orbital distance from star to prevent tidal locking and far enough so that solar flares would not strip the atmosphere; magnetic field from planet molten core to shield lower atmosphere from cosmic radiation; sufficient planetary plate tectonics for crustal mineral recycling; suitable distribution and shape of continents to sustain deep ocean currents; sufficient actinide radioisotopes in planet interior for decay heat; suitably-sized moon to create needed tides and stabilize planet rotation; giant outer gas planets to prevent large asteroids and comets from frequent collisions with the Earth-like planet; suburban galaxy location providing sufficient distance from recent supernovas; a special suburban location so that the planet has sufficient phosphorus concentrations; far enough away from gravitational disturbances by higher density of stars in inner area of galaxy; only minor orbital variations caused by small chaotic gravitational interactions between other planets in the solar system.
With these factors the number of planets in our galaxy capable of sustaining intelligent life is much smaller than the media and grant-seeking astronomers imply in their articles. The estimated probable number is likely very close to the experimentally known value of one.
No one cares, Emma.
Have you moved out of the country yet?
Schizophrenia typically begins to show at her age... Too bad too... She’s a pretty good actress, but mental illness has taken a lot of them.
I tend to like her as an actress. I find her cute and just quirky enough to interesting and fun.
As a person? I don’t know her. These interviews tend to be silly and don’t really “inform”—even on the project they do them for.
In a nutshell, why anyone would find her response interesting is curious.
Carl Sagan and the Drake Equation hasn’t convinced me of anything with regards to the possibility of intelligent life on other planets.
What monumental drivel.
Women out of the house.