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[–] 54 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Life is certain to exist, but multicellular life is less likely and intelligent multicellular who reaches for the stars is even less likely

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Who said anything about multicellularity, intelligence, or space travel?

    Point is, Obama's answer was vacuously true, and the only answer a non-idiot could reasonably could have given.

    ...Okay, I admit he could have quoted Contact for extra style points:

    "The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."

    But aside from that, the answer he gave was the only one he could reasonably have given.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    Okay wait, listen to yourself. You expected Obama to give a reasonable answer, and of course he did. Gosh, wasn't that nice? You might agree or disagree with his choices and priorities, but even his worst policies had SOME sort of reason behind them. And were stated in complete grammatical sentences that stayed in topic.

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