Extra-terrestrial life

[Tassman]

Do you know of a less "primitive species [your choice of terms]?

We are able to envisage a "less primitive species" and have a long history of social reform to enable it to develop. One would hope that a highly advanced intelligent species, should it ever be able to reach us, would be equally advanced in social values.

[Trucker]

We are able to envisage a "less primitive species" and have a long history of social reform to enable it to develop. One would hope that a highly advanced intelligent species, should it ever be able to reach us, would be equally advanced in social values.

So the long and short of is is simply wishful assumptions. In the real world you actually don't know of any terrestrial "less primitive species" or any extraterrestrial "highly advanced intelligent species"?

[Tassman]

So the long and short of is is simply wishful assumptions. In the real world you actually don't know of any terrestrial "less primitive species" or any extraterrestrial "highly advanced intelligent species"?

Indeed we don't know. And given the vast distances involved we may never know. But the probability is that there is likely to be intelligent life elsewhere given the sheer numbers of Earth-like exoplanets in our universe, which by some estimates number billions in our galaxy alone. .

[Trucker]

Indeed we don't know.

Thank you.

[Tassman]

Thank you.

For what?

The probability is that there is likely to be intelligent life elsewhere given the sheer numbers of Earth-like exoplanets in our universe, which by some estimates number billions in our galaxy alone. If life can evolve on Earth there is no reason to think it cannot evolve on the countless similar planets elsewhere in the universe.