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MalabarJag · 10-17-2017, 06:21 PM

(10-17-2017, 04:10 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:
(10-17-2017, 01:34 PM)TJBender Wrote: Can you find statistics on alien abductions that don't come from '90s mystery thriller shows?

There are no stats on alien abductions, since they can neither be proven or debunked. There are verifiable stats on open missing person cases though. As I said before, I don't know whether she was abducted or not. I don't know if aliens abduct people or if they are on Earth at all. I can't prove or disprove either. I'm simply saying we can't know one way or another, so I wouldn't rule anything out. One thing I am sure of though, out of the infinite number of stars in the universe, Earth simply cannot be the only one that holds intelligent life. That just simply makes no sense.

What happens in a distant galaxy is immaterial, so the number of stars is not infinite. Realistically, if we're talking about extraterrestrials actually visiting Earth we should limit this to our own galaxy, about 100 billion stars, most of them much smaller and cooler than the sun.

There are two possibilities, either spacefaring intelligent life is common, or it is uncommon. If it is common the Earth would have been colonized by extraterrestrials millions of years ago. If it is uncommon the odds of another race appearing within the last million years in a 13 billion year old galaxy are rather low. Counting humanity as a spacefaring race that would mean that for 12.999 billion years there was no intelligent race in the galaxy, and now in the last .001 billion years there are two.The fact that we are here pretty much invalidates the possibility that space aliens are visiting Earth.

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