Posted on 02/15/2009 7:53:31 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft
There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Aw man, just when I thought I was unique!
I believe it, instinctually. But when the BBC writes and say it is so, I begin to question my belief. I wonder how future articles will work global warming into this.
Swell. Let’s move to another one and leave the Dems to screw up this one the rest of the way.
They already use Venus for a 'look, that could happen to us!'
Monty Python always makes me smile. :)
Neat to think that all these worlds we are discovering are home to men still under direct guidance from God. Perhaps they have advanced so far that they do travel from place to place...with the exception of Earth. Maybe the Earth is forbidden to them because of the fall.
Billions of planets. Give me funding to find them . . . Garbage hype.
: )
“There’s billions and billions of stars in the galaxy”
Carl Sagan
“There’s billions and billions of dollars in the stimulus package”
B. Obama
Aside from religous ideas, the mere distance would suggest we would never come into contact.
My theory is that there are/were lots of intelligent races. So why have we not found it—or had it found us? The answer is both where and when they are with respect to us. I agree with Arthur C. Clarke: every intelligent race either: a) becomes God-like (shaking off its physical form), b) destroys itself violently, c) peaks, becomes stagnant, and eventually degenerates back into the muck. I think the window where an intelligent race might be able and interested in communicating with another is very short: anywhere from 1K to 100K years. Given this, plus the distances involved, its very unlikely that one will actually find another.
BTW—I think humans will either take the b) or c) route.
Until you ponder the improbability of even us being here.
The third one is on the back... for dancing.
Unless we can vastly increase the speed of our spaceships or they already have light speed capability.
LOL...No need to ponder, there are billions of us here.
In addition, if this one planet can have billions of us, not to mention trillions of other life forms, then it would seem to make it even more plausible that tens of billion of other earth like planets could harbor life as well.
read “the rare earth”
by a couple of university of washington profs.
Also, do not thik there is a simple solutin to fermi’s paradox.
Since there are gazillions of planets, it is probable that somewhere out there, there is a planet whose geological features form a perfect likeness of Alfred E. Newman. In fact, it is a statistical near certainty. It would be pure arrogance to think that a planet that looks just like Alfred E. Newman doesn’t exist in this vast universe of ours.
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