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Old 29-April-2008, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by clint View Post
Even if intelligent life should happen in multiple places eventually,
there has to be someplace where it happened first

Doesn't necessarily contradict the Copernican principle.
I can agree with this but I have a problem thinking the universe waited 10Gyrs before producing intelligence.
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