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motion 01-11-2012 03:08 PM

Still don't believe we are not alone?
 
160 Billion Alien Planets May Exist in Our Milky Way Galaxy | Alien Planets & Solar Systems | Planet Detection & Gravitational Microlensing | Space.com

I've personally never had any doubt, but when you multiply 160 billion times the number of galaxies in the universe, the chances for a civilization evolving almost *exactly* identical to our own seems pretty likely. Now, factor in civilizations that are not like ours.... just mind boggling.

Curious if there are still people out there that think we are unique?

sammyg2 01-11-2012 03:30 PM

I don't believe in UFOs or that other life forms similar to us have visited this planet during the past 100 years or so.

Maybe a much different type of life form that is not of flesh and blood .......

widebody911 01-11-2012 03:31 PM

Mostly harmless.

Noah930 01-11-2012 03:33 PM

It would explain tabs. Or some of the others on this forum.

Flieger 01-11-2012 03:33 PM

This one is crazy enough. No more!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1326328396.jpg

Hugh R 01-11-2012 03:34 PM

I think the odds are good we are not alone. I think the odds that we've been visited are extremely low.

doug_porsche 01-11-2012 03:35 PM

mathematically speaking it would surprise me more if we were the only life out there.

The problem is distance. A light year is a a very big distance.

RWebb 01-11-2012 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh R (Post 6487971)
I think the odds are good we are not alone. I think the odds that we've been visited are extremely low.

yeh, it's a big universe

Flieger 01-11-2012 03:37 PM

Not when you have warp drive. They just want you to think it is a long distance.

Hugh R 01-11-2012 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Noah930 (Post 6487969)
It would explain tabs. Or some of the others on this forum.

Actually, let me rethink that statement.

Flieger 01-11-2012 03:40 PM

Where is ODDJOB UNO from?

Flieger 01-11-2012 03:41 PM

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Superman 01-11-2012 04:04 PM

The "math" would seem to suggest that there has to be life out there.

On the other hand, we don't know how odd it is for life to exist on a planet over the long time frames it has existed on Earth, and we don't know how likely it is for that planet's geology, weather and astronomical benevolence to allow life to evolve to the level we have. For instance, we've got a moon in orbit around us and two HUGE planets just outside our orbit which, together, sweep the cosmic debris that would otherwise regularly decimate our planet. While life is quite possible and may spring up often on planets, something tells me that hundreds of millions of years of relative environmental tranquility may be exceedingly rare.

Then, getting back to the math, I don't think science has really ever felt like it had a good explanation for how life would spontaneously occur. All life on Earth has DNA. The simplest DNA we can identify still makes a wrist chronograph look like a lump of mud by comparison.

Hmmmmmm.......

motion 01-11-2012 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hugh R (Post 6487971)
I think the odds that we've been visited are extremely low.

The numbers would appear to agree with you... too many other interesting targets for visitation :D

genrex 01-11-2012 04:19 PM

Maybe they've been watching transmissions of Galaxy Quest, thinking it's a documentary. That would be pretty cool. :)

PorscheGAL 01-11-2012 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flieger (Post 6487979)
Not when you have warp drive.

Or a well set-up 944. Thank God such technology hasn't fallen into the hands or claws of a hostile life form.

944Larry 01-11-2012 04:47 PM

Explain all these things seen in the sky by people (myself included). Obviously some are fakes, but obviously, some aren't. There is some really serious sheet going on in the sky.:eek:

VaSteve 01-11-2012 04:47 PM

The vastness of space is almost imponderable. It gives me a headache to think about sometimes.

Noah930 01-11-2012 04:51 PM

That's because your head is so small. Comparatively speaking, of course. :p

ckissick 01-11-2012 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Superman (Post 6488057)
While life is quite possible and may spring up often on planets, something tells me that hundreds of millions of years of relative environmental tranquility may be exceedingly rare.
.......

Yes, the odds are exceedingly low. But if the odds are 1 in a billion, then there are 160 planets in our galaxy with life. If there are 100 billion galaxies, a lower estimate, then there are 16 trillion planets with life in the universe.:eek:


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