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.
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Edited 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.