[Dallas59]

[cripplecreek]

Maybe but I’m 100% certain that such assertions are stupid.

[Question Liberal Authority]

"The Universe is a very big thing that contains a great number of planets and a great number of beings. It is Everything. What we live in. All around us. The lot. Not nothing. It is quite difficult to actually define what the Universe means, but fortunately the Guide doesn't worry about that and just gives us some useful information to live in it.

Area: The area of the Universe is infinite.

Imports: None. This is a by product of infinity; it is impossible to import things into something that has infinite volume because by definition there is no outside to import things from.

Exports: None, for similar reasons as imports.

Population: None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is zero, therefore the average population of the Universe is zero, and so the total population must be zero.

Art: None. Because the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature there can be no art because the Universe is infinite which means there simply isn't a mirror big enough.

Sex: None. Although in fact there is quite a lot, given the zero population of the Universe there can in fact be no beings to have sex, and therefore no sex happens in the Universe."

— Douglas Adams

[fishtank]

Wow.

This guy is so confident about what he doesn’t know.

Another example of the lack of judgment in science.

Fishtank, PhD (engineering)

[EGPWS]

Odds of Life on Nearby Planet '100 Percent,' Astronomer Says

Which side of Pelosi's family is it?

[MarineBrat]

...chances of life on this planet are 100 percent

This "scientist" probably plays the lotto. People bad at math, ping!

[fwdude]

All these years of modern science with the most advanced telescopic and analytical equipment available, and this is the first planet we've ever seen which might support life.

Not unless God puts it there, and that's doubtful.

[HerrBlucher]

Bad logic. Once life gets going it flourishes even in the most inhospitable conditions, but getting it started in the first place is the tough part, and the extremely unlikely part, unless of course, there is some assistance.

I would say its far more likely than not that life ONLY exists on Earth. Of course, if the Aliens show up on October 13 as predicted, I will admit I was wrong, but not cheerfully as these critters very likely mean us severe harm.

[BillT]

Send in the robot drones to check it out.

[Flavius]

The Answer to the Great Question…Of Life, the Universe and Everything…Is…Forty-two.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The computer Deep Thought

[Dallas59]

We haven’t been able to find life off the Earth in our own system ....yet.

[twister881]

It's a Class M planet, Captain, capable of supporting human life. Recommend setting phasers to "fabulous."

[Revolting cat!]

the exoplanet, named Gliese 581g

And its residents call themselves the Gliesers.

[Right Wing Assault]

And I'm 100% certain that all of the woman here look like the one on the left and all of the men look like the guy on the right.

[stylin19a]

this new planet is probably called “Earth”, as right now, we are living on Bizzaro World.

[Clock King]

[behzinlea]

On matters like this, some scientists—so skeptical about religious faith—are shamelessly quick to throw away all skepticism and embrace uncertainty with a faith more perfect.

[353FMG]

Any global warming taking place on the planet?

[CodeToad]

It would a wild idea that WE are the aliens that make conact!

[aruanan]

"Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent," said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during a press briefing today.

Poor boob. "given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can" except where it cannot, which, in our experience to date is everywhere we've looked outside of earth. In addition, if the chances of life being spontaneously generated on earth and developing to the present state are ridiculously small, then the chances of it happening elsewhere just one other time are those chances times those chances and so on for each separate iteration one wants to posit.

[Gator113]

It’s only 120 trillion miles from Earth. So with the way that Obama and the dems spend the money we don’t have, we should be there within 10 years.