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Edited by Britton:
6/1/2015 10:16:51 PM
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There are potentially over 8 billion planets capable of life
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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1 ReplyYou really like astronomy/astrology/etc.. Britton, right?
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8 RepliesYa but after scanning 100000 different galaxies we came up with nothing, the chances of having a planet with life are extremely minuscule, and the chances of intelligent life evolving are much much smaller. We are an extremely rare case scenario, and even if we found life we currently have no way of getting there.
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The chance of other beings in our universe is extremely high. Do you really think that there is only one possible place in the infinitely expanding universe we live in. We can't see them yet but there is something else out there and at one point we will meet.
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3 RepliesHow can 8 billion planets be capable of life when there is only 9 planets? [spoiler]get out of here troll [/spoiler]
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Let's colonize Tau Ceti in honor of Bungie's best game series.
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2 RepliesThat's super cool bro. I think it's stupid of people to think that we are the only life in an infinite expanding universe. I do believe there is life on other planets. However I do not believe that they are going to come and enslave us.
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6 RepliesLet's do it Interstellar style
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4 RepliesIt took billions of years for earth to be the way it is today so where there is intelligent life somewhere else it would either be branded as an animal or it would have technology which is unimaginably surpassing of ours
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3 RepliesEdited by Cultmeister: 5/18/2015 10:18:27 AMWell if the universe is infinite then technically there are an infinite number of planets capable of supporting life.
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5 RepliesBut there are only 12 in the picture.
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7 RepliesEdited by kryple: 5/18/2015 6:11:52 AMAnd uranus isnt one of them. ;) Edit. "There ARE potentially eight billion planets capable of SUPPORTING life."
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1 ReplyMy opinion on this
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1 ReplyThat's one planet for every person.
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1 ReplyThese are possibilities? Probable, but none confirmed like us.
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4 RepliesToo bad we don't have the technology to get to those planets
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4 RepliesWhat if the other planets were like earth butt just in diffrent stages of existance?dinasaur status wow!
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5 RepliesWe should send groups of 8 to 1 billion of them in hopes of finding or creating new life somewhere else.
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1 Reply[spoiler]What did you expect? This is off-topic :P[/spoiler]
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3 RepliesWhat if a liquid COMPLETELY different from water supported life on a planet? H20 supports life on earth but on an alien planet liquid diamonds could support life (due to its carbon quantity.) Combustion reactions inside of us cause us to emit CO2, so what if in them they use CO2 (like planets) and derive the C from the diamonds and the O from the atmosphere.
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3 RepliesWe can't reach said exoplanets.
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Edited by captainnegative : 4/22/2015 8:21:26 PMI like to think of it like this Lets say planets are people. and you know out there in the World there some guy or girl that looks Like you (or close to looking like you). And if you just search long enough you might find him or her. He or her might not want to meet you as much as you want to meet him or her. But you now have the knowledge to answer The big question you always wanted to know. [b]am I the only one?[/b] [spoiler]#deepshit[/spoiler]
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3 RepliesI wonder if extra terrestrial life can see our cleared browser history, which is why they refuse to make contact with us.
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14 RepliesHow can we look to the stars when we are too busy shooting each other?
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4 RepliesEdited by BodybyEBT: 4/22/2015 7:41:19 PMI read something once about how some astrologists aimed a huge camera at the sky and snapped a photo, zoomed in on just one tiny little portion of the photo.(now I'm talking about some high tech badass zoom nothing like we could do) and in the tiny little portion of the sky they were able to estimate over 150million stars and planets in the tiny little portion of the entire sky and that isn't counting whats even further away then that, that couldn't be counted because its too far. I find space and how massive it really is incredible. I'd really like to be able to explore it.
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Even if life had a one in a million chance of happening, that means there are at least 8,000 worlds with life on them. 8.8 billion planets? Those are just the ones we know of.
