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Ten years of Hubble Space Telescope images have been pieced together, revealing a kaleidoscope of galaxies and other celestial objects.
It adds another 5,500 galaxies to Hubble's 2003 and 2004 view into a tiny patch of the farthest universe.
Originally posted by arpgme
There are about 300 sextillion stars in the universe. That is 300 followed by 21 zeros.
300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Therefore, counting each of those stars, there is a
1 in 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 chance that aliens do NOT/b] exist...
[1 in 300 sextillionth chance]
That NO alien life forms are on any star-systems at all...
We don't even know how many planets are going around each of those stars, but that would make the number even higher, and therefore the chances that there are NO aliens would become even less likely...
By the way, I had to use a probability of aliens NOT existing because the chance that they do is extremely high....
The Universe is Probably Teaming with Life
Originally posted by zerozero00
reply to post by PhoenixOD
This seems to me to be a very nieve post, of course there is life outside our solar system......do you think we are that special?
The amount of stars (suns) is phenomenal .....so the amount of goldilocks zones are uncountable
No doubt there is life, as we know it or not , there is life out there
So in answer to your question..yes i think we are very special. In the entire history of our planet where the conditions are perfect and there are billions of forms of life were are the only life forms who have become clever enough to even contemplate questions like this.
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
reply to post by PhoenixOD
So in answer to your question..yes i think we are very special. In the entire history of our planet where the conditions are perfect and there are billions of forms of life were are the only life forms who have become clever enough to even contemplate questions like this.
Conditions don't have to be "perfect" for life to happen, life can survive some pretty extreme environments.
Anybody that hasn't seen this, please feel free to check out www.abovetopsecret.com...edit on 27-9-2012 by Zcustosmorum because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Toadmund
reply to post by PhoenixOD
Your forgetting about Panspermia.
There's a lot of rocks out there that have bacteria/Dna stuck on them waiting to land on a planet or other piece of rock with ideal conditions.
extremophiles, can survive conditions that would kill us.
So, yeah, life may not have originated here.
edit on 27-9-2012 by Toadmund because: f to g
I hope there is life out there its just that anyone who thinks that the numbers of planet out there means that life must exist does not understand the maths or the science.
Originally posted by Zcustosmorum
reply to post by PhoenixOD
I hope there is life out there its just that anyone who thinks that the numbers of planet out there means that life must exist does not understand the maths or the science.
Bit harsh there mate and you can't argue with numbers, there's still more probability of life existing out there than not, regardless of maths or science.