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Originally Posted by dewolf
^ I wonder if there's beings on planets that look up to the sky at night, and wonder what life must be like on another planet. Do they have a social structure like ours? Do they have space telescopes that can see the Milky Way...
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IMO odds are yes, there is other intelligent life out there. Some perspective...
There are over 2 billion stars in our galaxy. Our star has 8 planets orbiting it. One that supports us. We keep finding planets around just about every star we look at so how many planets are out there in our galaxy alone? Let's say the average is one. That's 2 billion planets in the milkyway, probably more.
Now, there are trillions of galaxies, each hosting millions or billions of stars. All built from the same stuff as our galaxy. So yes, I tend to think like is crazy abundant. Intelligent life, well, it's out there somewhere. Probably never to be found though as it will be scarce and probably short lived. Fun to think about.