Our largest telescopes can barely make out exoplanets as tiny dots. Do you really think that we'd see aliens?
No, they don't? You're only referring to visible spectrum telescopes trying to visibly look at planets. That's a very shortsighted way of viewing the universe.
Then you tell me how, given a round Earth, we could observe extraterrestrial life.
Ah, so pirates prevent global warming? Got it.
Do you have evidence they don't? Pirates cut down on shipping lanes, and shipping is by far the largest contributor of CO2. Dismissing a correlation just because you think it's silly is a good way to make you look silly instead.
On the other hand, it kinda makes you look silly if you're presented
literally a joke correlation and try to take it seriously. Thank you for my new sig quote.
Also, shipping by boat is fairly low-carbon and would have been zero-carbon at the time piracy was widespread.
Perhaps I should restate it: how does the fact that Europa is a sphere preclude the formation of life?
How does it not?
Because the only thing, as far as I know, precluding life on Europa is that its oceans are frozen. If I hypothetically thaw its oceans and keep it that way for billions of years, why shouldn't life form?
Playing hot potato with the burden of proof does nothing. I am asking you what shape has to do with life.
An idea parroted by people who have never once touched the subject of data analysis in their entire lives.
Dude, come on!
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
And? Have you investigated all of those correlations and concluded that they're 100% unrelated and can't possibly ever be equal? The argument was "correlation =/= causation", which is wrong. Correlation and causation are equal sometimes, and not equal at others. Plainly stating that they are unequal all the time is just a way to show how uneducated you are regarding statistics.
The
point of that is that it's p-hacking.