- 16 Nov 2018 16:45
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They might think there are aliens, and they might not. They might have been serious, or they might have thought this would be an amusing study that would get a headline.
And even if we decide that Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb believe in extra-terrestrial lfe, that would not mean that most astrophysicists do, nor would it matter if they did, since that would not affect the science.
No, why would it?
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...
SolarCross wrote:Well they are astro-physicists and they wrote a paper seriously entertaining the possibility that it was a light-sail and in summary called for more searching for similar objects. In the context of Fermi's paradox and the Drake equation it isn't a stretch at all to say that they expect the existence of alien life.
They might think there are aliens, and they might not. They might have been serious, or they might have thought this would be an amusing study that would get a headline.
And even if we decide that Shmuel Bialy and Abraham Loeb believe in extra-terrestrial lfe, that would not mean that most astrophysicists do, nor would it matter if they did, since that would not affect the science.
Does the probability of life beyond earth offend you?
No, why would it?
There is a crack in everything,
That's how the light gets in...