>>Maybe but I’m 100% certain that such assertions are stupid.<<
Yep. I would like to ask him if there was always life on earth, even though, from a few light years away it looked as it does now.
Heck, I would not have balked at a 99% claim. But 100%? No wonder conservatives are skeptical of scientists. We know they are like the rest of us. Some even probably kick puppies when nobody is looking.
“No wonder conservatives are skeptical of scientists.”
This is indefensible a statement as the astronomers “100% chance of life” statement.
Why would conservatism be correlated with skepticism of scientists?
This individual astronomer is just an idiot that will say because you can’t prove him wrong with hard evidence that he must be right without providing hard evidence.