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Originally posted by ckissick
There are about a billion galaxies, each with about a billion stars. If the odds of life forming on any one of the star systems is only one in a billion, then there a billion planets with life on them. Makes you think.
Taking this forward, you have a one in one billion chance of finding life on another planet. If you could search one planet a day, it would take 2,739,726 years. I don't think we've been contacted yet.

Anyone ever heard Steven Hawking's thought on contacting alien life?
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