* The world is flat -> no, round
* The sun revolves around the earth -> no, Earth revolves around the sun
* Earth is a special unique snowflake -> no, there are 1B "Earths"
* Life is an incredibly rare event -> no, life is common throughout the galaxy and universe, just not how we thought it would be?
Precisely why I am so exited about exploration of Europa and Titan and others in our solar system. Imagine if we find life beneath the surface just in our system, then the probability of finding life outside our system would be much higher.
So your point that whenever we make predictions, we get them wrong, is totally unfounded.
Lol no, I haven't actually watched any stuff from him, I'm more of a Brian Cox guy.
My point wasn't "whenever we make predictions we get them wrong", it was that our accepted model of our universe is always in a state of flux - new revelations come about every so often that totally change this model. Hopefully the next revelation is that there is in fact a lot of life in the universe and we aren't alone.