TBF we seem to know the probable mass of the universe so can estimate how many planets there are. There is a vast amount unaccounted for, hence dark matter but unless you are into parallel universes what we believe to be the visible mass is what there is to work with. The billions of years evolution to anything more complex than single cell organisms is a significant factor.
PS. When I say "we" I mean "scientists and mathematicians". I personally am just like a cyclist accidentally veering onto a motorway, intellectually speaking.
Quite exciting... But I can almost guarantee others who don't believe there is other life out there will shit on this fantastic news.
Who, other than the insane, doesn't think that life exists somewhere beyond our planet?
In slight contradiction to my earlier post, alien life could already walk among us. I appreciate that’s slightly abstract from the original post but I’m a big believer in the ancient astronaut theory
Can’t help it, love all that stuff
I highly doubt it. Life almost certainly exists beyond our planet but, given the distances involved, it almost certainly hasn't visited our planet.
The earth has been around for 4 billion years I think. There’s a lot of strange stuff on this earth that doesn’t add up for me. But this is simply a personal opinion and I have no evidence to back it up of course
Totally agree. I mean, look at Edmonton and Crawley for example!
I'd hazard a guess that the human race will cease to exist long before we encounter any aliens. I don't believe for a minute that we have been visited and I am sure that all Flying Objects will eventually be Identified. I think our almost desperate first world desire for alien contact is a vain human conceit and the fact of the imagining of aliens as vaguely humanoid in form is hysterically funny. Almost like the new God. Forgive my unscientific ignorance but that is my opinion. Aliensceptic! Space still fascinates me though. I sometimes bring on a depression by dwelling on the concept of infinity!
Or it could be based on scientific rational extrapolation based on what we know so far.. life on other planets in the solar system would be a major indicator.
Quite exciting... But I can almost guarantee others who don't believe there is other life out there will shit on this fantastic news.
Who, other than the insane, doesn't think that life exists somewhere beyond our planet?
In slight contradiction to my earlier post, alien life could already walk among us. I appreciate that’s slightly abstract from the original post but I’m a big believer in the ancient astronaut theory
Quite exciting... But I can almost guarantee others who don't believe there is other life out there will shit on this fantastic news.
Who, other than the insane, doesn't think that life exists somewhere beyond our planet?
In slight contradiction to my earlier post, alien life could already walk among us. I appreciate that’s slightly abstract from the original post but I’m a big believer in the ancient astronaut theory
Voyager 1 is approximately 18 light hours away from Earth. If it continues to travel at its current speed it would be one light year away in 17,000 years. The Kepler 90 star which supports planets similar to our solar system is 2,545 light years away from earth or 43,265,000 years away.
Voyager 1 is approximately 18 light hours away from Earth. If it continues to travel at its current speed it would be one light year away in 17,000 years. The Kepler 90 star which supports planets similar to our solar system is 2,545 light years away from earth or 43,265,000 years away.
Voyager 1 is approximately 18 light hours away from Earth. If it continues to travel at its current speed it would be one light year away in 17,000 years. The Kepler 90 star which supports planets similar to our solar system is 2,545 light years away from earth or 43,265,000 years away.
We are so so close imo to finding answers to questions that should be beyond answering. I think astronomy, Astro and particle physics is probably my biggest passion outside of football. I can’t get enough of it. Unfortunately it is a ridiculously big universe out there and it’s been around for such a length of time that I think it would take something to challenge the very physics that govern our world to really understand it, ie another universe.
The more I read, the more I believe in the multiverse theory. Too many unanswered questions that point toward something beyond our universe that makes it all tick
I look forward to each and every discovery and pray I live to an age where we discover other intelligent life
imagine the meltdown if this was on the take over thread
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Genesis 1:1
Adam and Eve really got about. Intergalactic incest pushers.
I don't believe for a minute that we have been visited and I am sure that all Flying Objects will eventually be Identified.
I think our almost desperate first world desire for alien contact is a vain human conceit and the fact of the imagining of aliens as vaguely humanoid in form is hysterically funny. Almost like the new God.
Forgive my unscientific ignorance but that is my opinion. Aliensceptic!
Space still fascinates me though.
I sometimes bring on a depression by dwelling on the concept of infinity!
Neil deGrasse Tyson.