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Are we alone in the universe?
On our planet alone the diversity of life we can find is immense. Extremophiles have only just been discovered in the past 20 or 30 years which has pushed back our knowledge of the limits of what life as we know it can tolerate. Based on this, the question becomes “Is it likely that given the diversity of life we have found ourselves, our planet is the only one in the entire universe that has the conditions suitable to produce life?”. Just based on the statistics, the answer has to be “not likely”.
So, no I don’t believe we are alone in the universe. It’s a hell of a big place though so I don’t know that we’ll ever prove it either way.
