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highwaystar101 said:
twesterm said:

When asking this question, there are two possibities:

  1. The universe is infinitely big so that means there's an infinite chance that conditions for life exist and for that spark to happen.  Taking that into account, even if that chance for the spark of life to happen is small, it's still likely to happen eventually.
  2. The universe is infinitely big and if we're the only life then something made us unique so that it cannot happen anywhere else.

When looking at those, #1 seems much more likely than #2.

Our Universe is finite, not infinite. Unimaginably large I grant you, but still finite. Sorry.

blah, whatever, poor choice of words.  You know what I mean.  :-p

Though I'm pretty sure space is infinite, it's just the extents of the space created by our big bang is finite.  There's nothing that says there couldn't have been another big bang elsewhere that we just can't see.