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Letter: Odds of finding extraterrestrials

Published 3 February 2016

From Eric Kvaalen

The visible, detectable universe isn't infinite. It seems to me very unlikely that life would start on any given Earth-like planet, let alone give rise to self-aware animals like us. So we have a very small probability multiplying a very large number of planets. We have no idea how small the product is. The fact that we exist doesn't help answer the question.

Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 3059 published 6 February 2016

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