#455 – Adam Frank: Alien Civilizations and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

2330.171 - 2352.143 Adam Frank

Right. And so this was the idea. So what Carter said was, you know, using anthropic reasoning, he said there must be a few very hard steps for evolution to get through to make it to intelligence, right? So there's some steps are going to be easy. So every generation, you know, you roll the dice and yeah, it won't take long for you to get that step, but there must be a few of them.