[Elsie]

Well, I don’t know about billions and billions of civilizations out there, but there are a whole bunch of stars, and a lot of them have planets, and surely a few of those have life...probably more than we can count on both hands. I would imagine that there are a few civilizations out there, just based upon the laws of probability.

Surely?

Why??

Law of Probability?

What is THAT?

What DATA will you plug into this 'law' to test the assertion?

[wgflyer]

Goodness!

Ok....

“Surely?”
Yup

“Why??”
Why not?

“Law of Probability?”
Yup

“What is THAT?”
Catch phrase for the application of mathematics to the stochastic processes of the universe.

“What DATA will you plug into this ‘law’ to test the assertion? “
What are your own assertions, and what data do you plug into them?