army1987 comments on Exterminating life is rational - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 June 2014 08:01:02AM 1 point [-]

We don't even know that it occurred on earth at all. It might have occurred elsewhere in our galaxy and traveled to earth via asteroids.

That would make it more likely that there's life on other planets, not less likely.

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2014 08:55:18AM *  1 point [-]

Most planets and stars in the universe are not in our galaxy. If our galaxy has a bit of unicellular life because some very rare event happened and is the only galaxy with life, that fits to a universe where we are the only intelligent species.

Comment author: [deleted] 01 June 2014 10:03:00AM 0 points [-]

It looks like you accidentally submitted your comment before finishing it (or there's a misformatted link or something).

Comment author: ChristianKl 01 June 2014 01:00:03PM 0 points [-]

I corrected it.