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Originally Posted by centebakkie
Saying their is no Aliens is like scooping a tea cup into the ocean and saying "no fish".
The difference though is that if you carefully examine the content of that water from a real earth ocean cup you will find evidence of life that indicates there is higher animals alive in that water even if none is in the cup. You will find all kinds of remnants of that life and microorganisms and byproducts of life.
When you look at the universe you see no evidence of such correlations that higher life should have left. Granted this is not a very safe statement as we have not examined thoroughly yet the consequences for the universe of higher intelligence but the reasonable first look is a very suggestive "we are alone in the tech game in our galactic group neighborhood" guess. Its simply very hard to imagine that a civilization even only 1 mil y more advanced than our own hasnt colonized all the galaxy yet and we are not known already. It is very simple to do it or at least do things in part of the galaxy that look spectacular for their complexity.
We look out there and see billions of galaxies. And none has taken a path that leaves a global trace in its high tech activity??? None? Intelligent life that leads to high technology may be indeed as rare as 10^-20 or per solar system. That doesnt make lie unique here. It makes simply life rare enough to be consistent with what is observed.