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1 Post author: PhilGoetz 23 January 2011 10:46PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 27 January 2011 01:11:54PM 0 points [-]

The odds of intelligent life developing on a planet are precisely balanced with the number of suitable planets in our galaxy, such that after billions of years, there is exactly one such instance.

You're not taking many-worlds into account here.