Hubble takes the biggest image ever of Andromeda at 1.5 billion pixels

Your use of the word "schematics " twice now is a misuse of the word. A schematic is an engineering drawing.

I don't doubt life exists in at least one othe place in the universe. Period.

I doubt we will find conclusive evidence that it does.

Odds are not proof, they only suggest the likelihood. That likelihood is not ZERO.

If we do find even a single microbe not of this earth, it suggests the universe is full of life.

 

I see no reason why life can only exist here on earth.

Doubt is measured by the odds. And it's a matter of which odds: life elsewhere or life on quintillions of worlds or whether we can confirm this life with 100% (not 99.999999999999%) surety.

I've been consistently stating my position in different words hoping the concepts sink in. A 5th grader would get it, but you don't. Or don't want to - check and mate.

jlprk called you probability challenged. He's right.

 

Doubt is not denial.

Keep digging and abusing the language.

 

And... You doubt you will win the lottery, but there is a chance you can win. Your doubt does not mean you will lose. Failing to buy a ticket is the only sure way to not win.

 

I never said highly probable. There you go again.

The odds of winning the california lottery is about 1:259,000,000

That's less than 1.

Someone wins, eventually. Not every week, but eventually. Less than 1 doesn't mean impossible as you've translated my words to mean.

The odds that jlprk suggests that there is life is akin to a coin flip (50-50, or 1:2). I've written (in different combinations of words with the hope that you'll comprehend their meaning) that the odds of life nobody knows, that I think it's similar to the tiny 1:259,000,000 number and that jlprk and many scientists seem to think it's 50-50. I say it looks like way < 1 odds because we can't find it. jlprk says the universe is so big that there's lots of life but it doesn't have to be close enough for us to detect. I say if we can detect it, it's a good indication it's everywhere. If we can't detect it, it suggests that what life is out there is infrequent and likely to be so far away from us that we may as well be alone in the universe (as the astrophysicist you quoted, then mischaracterized, actually said).

People express doubt as a measure of odds because doubt means:



The "truth" in this discussion being the chances of winning the life lottery.

 

He's moved the goalposts back a bit.

http://www.space.com/24622-intelligent-alien-life-detection-2040.html

Bold Prediction: Intelligent Alien Life Could Be Found by 2040

"I think we'll find E.T. within two dozen years using these sorts of experiments," Shostak said here Thursday (Feb. 6) during a talk at the 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) symposium at Stanford University.

 

Fair enough.

There certainly is a finite number that we can see, and the sky is black.

 

If there‘s all those stars, why is it dark at night?
One hundred billion galaxies, all full of millions of stars, seems like a lot but it isn’t nearly enough to make the night sky as bright as day. If there were an infinite number of stars and the universe was infinitely old, there would be a star everywhere you looked in the night sky and it would be very bright indeed.

But the universe isn’t infinitely old. It was created approximately 14 billion years ago and since the speed of light is constant, we can only see objects that are less than 14 billion light years away. This means that we are living within a spherical ‘observable universe’ which is smaller that the total universe and that the light from stars further away from us than 14 billion light years will not have had enough time to reach the Earth.

In addition, the universe is expanding and all the galaxies, and their stars, are moving away from us. Thanks to this, the light from a moving star changes colour in a similar way that sound from a moving ambulance siren changes pitch. The light that we observe from distant receding stars is more red than it would be if they were stationary – the light is ‘red shifted’. In many cases the red shift is large enough to move the light out of the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

http://www.physics.org/facts/sand-dark.asp