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 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]