And try this thought: If the distance from the Earth to the Sun was 1 yard - The distance from here to Proxima Centauri (the nearest star) would be 160 Miles.
The numbers involved in The Universe are just so collosal, it means that in my mind there must be bllions of plantes out there with life on them. Luckily, I'm on this one, and get to ride a Ducati. Result
@idrinkbeer are you saying that our Sun is not a star? If so I think you may be living up to your name.
me I never said a thing ....im innocent ! you must still be on the drugs.....................im coming down off mine :Nailbiting::Arghh:
Statistically, that's highly unlikely. Once you add in the time factor - length of time the universe has existed versus the length of time life has existed on earth - the chance of life existing on any other planet that has the ability to support life (as we know it) at the same time as it exists here is incredibly small...
Not really, we only know about the observable universe, then only really over the last 50 years when our understanding has come on leaps and bounds, and we know very little about that. What about what we don't know? Then you have the massive numbers involved......BILLIONS of BILLIONS of stars. The numbers are too huge for there to be an "incredibly small" chance of life elsewhere. I think it's impossible for there not to be masses of life in the Universe myself. Multiply "incredibly small' by billions of billions, you get an incredibly large number. Watch this and tell me again if you think we are "alone"
They say (frequently) that there are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on Earth. Try getting your head around that. Then think how many planets and moons there are. Aaaaaauuugh! Time for bed.
I love all this stuff. My problem is I try and get my head around it. That's when the fuses start popping all over the show. How amazing to be born into an age where we can know this shit even exists? What an amazing place and time we live in. Our universe - you rock!
That is some good shit you're smoking... What does it cost and does your guy deliver to West London. Please hook me up.
I would love it if eventually SETI finds intelligence on another planet and the message we got back was. "Please use another radio channel this one is taken".... Basically an "up one" response. Sorry some serious drugs being used here.
Ah yes found that lol. Sorry bout that, I'm on my I phone with fat fingers and never even ment to hit any rating.... Please except my very humble apology. Mind you your usually wrong :smile:
Me too. A little research says that there are believed to be 70 Billion Trillion stars in the observable Universe (70 x 10^22) that's 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (I think) That's only what we can see. The Galaxy was born 13.8m years ago. We can only observe objests that are close enough for the light from them to have reached us. Anything further away, we don't know about. How many stars could there potentially be !! We hear about planets that could possibly sustain life all the time, living as they do in the "Goldilocks" zone of their host star (Kepler 22b for example), and these are relitivley close. Mars was once thought to contain water, Venus was once thought to be Earth like until the greenhouse effect spiralled out of control and these are just the next door neighbours. Even if we say that only 1 in every 1,000,000 solar systems has a planet that could have the conditions to support life as we know it. That's 7,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible planets. Like I say, the numbers are too collosal for me to think there's nothing out there.
