There is potentially over 8 [b]billion[/b] planets capable of life in [b][i]our galaxy.[/i][/b]
[quote] By extrapolating Kepler’s findings, astronomers have come up with some not-altogether-unfounded estimates for these values. For instance, they concluded that about 22% of Sun-like stars has at least one planet we class as potentially habitable. Doing the math based on the latest estimates for the total number of stars in the Milky Way, that gives us a rough figure of 8.8 billion potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way. That’s a lot of rolls of the dice, assuming you believe life has any chance at all of starting spontaneously. [/quote]
That's just our galaxy people. There's hundreds of billions of galaxies in our universe. That's a lot of potential for life. We're not special snowflakes.
[url=http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/170404-kepler-20-of-sun-like-stars-have-habitable-planets-alien-life-drake-equation-finally-has-a-leg-to-stand-on]source[/url]
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Well I mean [i]i still am[/i] but the rest of you, not special snowflakes. In all seriousness though I've been saying this for years, if you think about the shear amount if planets out there, even if its a lotteries chance of life those are good odds. I'm always met with "then way haven't they visited us" smh just because there is life on other planets doesn't mean they are an advance race of super being, or even intelligent life at all. Even if there was, finding this planet would be like finding a needle in like a million haystacks, we aren't the center of the universe.
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#godisreal
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That's why religion is bogus
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There is a ton more than that sry
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Trillions of star systems in our galaxy alone which is a small galaxy that's sets up for more than likely a googleplex amount of planets in our galaxy. trillions of galaxy systems millions of light years across (ours is only 100 thousand light years) so yeah
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Cool cool. Too bad it would take like more than a lifetime to get to some of those though.... It's a shame. It'd be kind of legit to settle a planet.
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Edited by txarmy07: 10/18/2015 3:37:39 PMCome on Americans! Let's go liberate some aliens!
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can i go to one with all the fun people and leave all the -blam!-s to fend for themselves?
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Ayyliens
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Mhmm.
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I feel like a lot of people don't know about the Rare Earth/Uniqueness Hypothesis. When I found out about it, it gave me a totally new perspective. Sure, the odds lend themselves to extraterrestrial life, but maybe we are the 1 in bazillion chance. And by no means do I consider us special. The scope of the universe regardless of whether it contains other life or not totally exceeds our comprehension and understanding. At the same time, there may be some species out there that has known of our existence for thousands of years but couldn't give less of a damn. We can't act all special that we actually found something besides ourselves when something else might have beaten us to it.
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Its crazy to think that since day 1 on the planet there was recources to make something from todays time. So right at this moment we can build something can travel as fast as light. We just havent understood how it works
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how awesome would it be if we found out we're not even the smartest beings on our own planet? a species that doesn't even bother talking to us because it considers us too stupid and not worth the effort.
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Sadly, even if we put a newborn baby on a spaceship and sent it at the maximum speed our technology allows towards any of these planets, it would die before it even got a fraction of the way to the closest one. I believe the closest habitable planet is 12 light years away, and 100 km/s is probably the fastest we could currently travel, so it would take 36,000 years to get there. Even if there was life on the closest habitable planet, it wouldn't really matter until we can invent technology to travel at the speed of light. At that point we could begin to contact that life If it's intelligent.
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i just heard that the keppler has discoverd something odd
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Edited by Doodling Hitman: 10/17/2015 6:15:09 PMI wonder if there is a planet similar like ours where people speculate about other planets on something like the internet. What if they're saying the exact same thing now and people are discussing about it in a thread like we do?
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An my nutsack will produce over 12 trillion life giving sperm in my life time.
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THAT'S OVER 8 BILLION MORE PLANETS HUMANS CAN POTENTIALLY F.U.C.K UP!
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Why aren't they funding this?
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WHY ARENT WE FUNDING THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS?!!! Why do we worry about overpopulation when we could be researching these planets to see if they're capable into being made habitable or sustainable for agriculture?
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Insert Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy reference. "Space is big...." Personally I don't think humanity will get it's personal shit together in time for mass colonization of other worlds. I truly hope I'm wrong on that though.
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Neat. A planet for every person. Everybody gets their own planet.
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Sigh...... born to late to explore the ocean born to early to explore space
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Edited by foxhound: 5/27/2015 11:42:31 AMThe way you speak and write how you think you speak is so bad and seems so condescending that anything you say is invalidated by the huge "I'm an asshole" vibe you give off. Every snowflake is special idiot there aren't two that are the same so why the -blam!- would that even be a good descriptor unless we're special. Stop wishing for aliens everyday you're basement still won't smell any better. Rare Earth theory btch.
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I can hear the Christians complaining