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Interesting article. I guess I'd fall into the "rare earth" group. But even if advanced life is a billion-to-one shot there are billions of stars. I can't believe our confluence of factors couldn't have come together in at least one other place. And it would only enhance my wonder at the power of the universe's "higher authority" were this to be the case.

At any rate, my hat is off to NASA. As far as government agencies go I think its one of the better ones. No one in their right mind would mess with a country that can put men on the moon and land robots on Mars.

Very interesting.

I have recently changed my opinion of what we will find "out there." If we find intelligent life, and that is a BIG if, we may not even be able to recognize it as intelligent or maybe not even as life.

Stumbling across an earth like planet that harbors intelligent life, that is close enough to us to find it, is remote in the extreem.