http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/AST.2015.1418

Just goes to show that science can prove anything it wants to be true. The article also (inadvertently) lends credibility to the infinite monkey/typewriter theory.

 

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/AST.2015.1418

Just goes to show that science can prove anything it wants to be true. The article also (inadvertently) lends credibility to the infinite monkey/typewriter theory.

However, it is a scientifically proven theory that if you give five (drunk) monkeys typewriters, and one minute, all of the resulting text would make more sense than anything Gene Ray says.

 

I had never heard of Gene Ray. Quite a character.

 

Math is nature's great escape.

 

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/AST.2015.1418

"We find that as long as the probability that a habitable zone planet develops a technological species is larger than ∼10−24, humanity is not the only time technological intelligence has evolved."

Fortunately, the universe is so big we probably won't meet any of them.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gene_Ray
"Gene Ray is anti-Semitic,[3] homophobic,[4] racist,[5] and batshit crazy.[citation NOT needed]"

The Internet is just full of strange things!

 

When I was a kid...maybe 8 or 9 years old...and read about the universe, solar systems, ant colonies, and molecular structure, I would imagine that there was an infinite number of worlds of an infinite number of sizes each contained within a larger one. Then, I went to school and was taught how stupid I was.

 

It seems like there are an infinite number of atoms, stars, planets, and solar systems, just not inside each other.
They aren't really infinite, but they are way more than you (or I) will ever count.

 

I Carl Sagan's word for it. Numerous, numbers so vast that as far as us limited humans are concerned, they are infinity.