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Life, the Universe and Everything (with Adam Frank)

Stay Tuned with Preet

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The Consensus About the Probability of Intelligent Life

Given the sheer numbers of you know trillions of planets, it doesn't seem to be radical to say that there is life on some of them. I think that's a reasonable assumption to make because there are so many but the thing is if I give you 100 or million planets right but the odds of forming life on them is one in two million then you've just run out of possibilities. It's all depends on the probabilities associated at the particular moment that you're observing as well.

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