We’ve only had wireless communications for a bit over 100 years out of the last 4 billion. Why should any other intelligent life be any different?
The big problem, the 500 lb gorilla, is DNA. Where would that come from? How would that naturally form? In order for there to be life, there has to be some blue print that tells matter what to do. This blue print far exceeds the known forces in nature. It also seems to exceed our current understanding of the workings of the physical world.
The answer is zero
they dont have a very good track record “estimating” things lately
Alien 1: Hey Klerg. the earthlings are seeking intelligent life again.
Alien 2: Oh goodie, fun time. Bring me the signal modulator. Let’s mess with em.
https://designmatrix.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/michael-crichton-seti-is-not-science/
Whatever their estimate may be it will be one too high.
There is precious little intelligent life here on Earth.
Almost none in the UN or other international NGOs. Well, the evil intelligences aside that is....
The answer is supposed to be 42. 42 worlds in our galaxy with intelligent life.
If the question is about intelligent life in the universe, the answer would still be 42, making our galaxy the luckiest galaxy of them all.
Total nonsense based on unprovable assumptions.
The number was approximately 1, but our civilization is in the process of full collapse, so soon, it will be zero.
I hope these aren’t the same scientists that came up with the global warming predictions or the covid 19 plan.
“There’s a starman waiting in the sky,
he’d like to come and meet us,
but he thinks he’d blow our minds...”
Unless and until we either actually find life somewhere else or figure how to make a living organism from scratch in a laboratory we have no idea how common or rare life is in the rest of the universe, let alone intelligent life.
It could be that Earth has the only life anywhere and the rest of the universe is entirely sterile or it could be that there is life on nearly every planet with water.
This kind of speculation gives science a bad name. But the media will publicize it....and the movies are still being made about it...and despite all the negative evidence they still spend money on it. Maybe the extraterrestrials are all Kanamits and all our missing people were fast food while the Kanamits were passing by. Add that factor to the Drake equation.
If all that exists is matter, then maybe these guys are right? But what if the soul which is the principle of a living organism is immaterial? In that case these scientists have nothing to say about life. They have no expertise with regard to immaterial substance.
Theologians have a lot to say about immaterial realities. Angels, for example, each angel his own species, fill the universe. But you will never see a scientist even consider that angels are another form of intelligent life.
Aliens are a construct of unbelievers who deep down understand that other intelligent life forms must exist, but they cannot bring themselves to admit that angels fall in this category. It is also interesting to me that aliens are almost always humanoids with big heads.
The over under of intelligent life forms in our solar system beside on Earth, is -1-.
Is ‘zero’ up for grabs?
I will take zero.
We’re transmitting on AM, and they’re listening on FM.
so thats a big fat zero then. man, where is my grant money?