Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Cool Worlds" channel.

  1. Regarding your theory, our existence doesn't prove that our own galaxy isn't infected, just that non has reached us yet...
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  2. 4:11 The problem with your assumption is that there's a finite number of ways that the chemicals that exists in our universe can be combined in a given amount of space. While I guess it's possible that there's no other life neither in our galaxy, the local group nor Laniakea and Laniakeas closest neighbors the universe as a whole simply is too gigantic for life to not exist simply because it is so gigantic that in theory you could find an exact copy of Earth out there with an exact copy of you and me out there. It's genuinely plausible if you look at the math. And if you look at just life, then yes, it has to exist many, many other places. 6:15 We've already made artificial life of several kinds where things like parts of the DNA has been replaced with completely different chemicals yet it works. We've made something that in essence acts just like the cell surface of some of the simpler organisms out there in a lab without using any life to start with, just chemicals. And we've probably managed a lot more that I'm not aware of. I think you're overestimating the difficulty of creating life significantly.
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