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this is mind blowing
Posted on 9/5/14 at 3:57 am
Posted on 9/5/14 at 3:57 am
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Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:01 am to blight
We aren't alone
Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:05 am to blight
Imagine if they were just making it up to get more and more grant money
I mean, who is going to be able to prove them wrong?
I mean, who is going to be able to prove them wrong?
Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:21 am to blight
Yeah man. I watched a documentary the other night and they said the scientific probability of life outside of earth somewhere else in the universe is approaching 1. That is there is almost 0% chance we are alone
When you think of we tried for a while and still search for life on mars within our own solar system. The scientific estimate for the amount of solar systems in the Milky Way alone is 100 billion of the 200 billion stars within.
There are 100 billion other solar systems with similarities with our own just in the Milky Way.
Then you see this article and realize there are 100,000 galaxies like the Milky Way in our immediate vicinity. Each of those with possibly 100 billion solar within.
The scope is truly mind boggling
When you think of we tried for a while and still search for life on mars within our own solar system. The scientific estimate for the amount of solar systems in the Milky Way alone is 100 billion of the 200 billion stars within.
There are 100 billion other solar systems with similarities with our own just in the Milky Way.
Then you see this article and realize there are 100,000 galaxies like the Milky Way in our immediate vicinity. Each of those with possibly 100 billion solar within.
The scope is truly mind boggling
Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:32 am to KBeezy
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I watched a documentary the other night and they said the scientific probability of life outside of earth somewhere else in the universe is approaching 1. That is there is almost 0% chance we are alone
Well, that's pure nonsense, as there is no way to calculate the probability. Sagan wrote the most precise thing that can currently be said about such things in his book "Contact", "The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." Well put.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:47 am to Spock's Eyebrow
Sure there is
The Drake equation
The seager equation
Stephen hawking wrote that life, and many forms of life, is almost a given, and that intelligent life is highly probable. But that humans on earth discovering intelligent life is unlikely before we, or they (whichever form we happen to be close to discovering one day) destroys itself one way or the other
The Drake equation
The seager equation
Stephen hawking wrote that life, and many forms of life, is almost a given, and that intelligent life is highly probable. But that humans on earth discovering intelligent life is unlikely before we, or they (whichever form we happen to be close to discovering one day) destroys itself one way or the other
Posted on 9/5/14 at 4:54 am to blight
This s mind blowing
Posted on 9/5/14 at 5:07 am to KBeezy
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Sure there is
The Drake equation
The seager equation
Nope. Any fool can create an equation and make up numbers to plug into it to create a result. It has nothing whatsoever to do with reality. Stop watching "documentaries" that are like the worst of Omni magazine. Unsurprisingly, xkcd already said it far better than I could aspire to:
Read what I quoted from Sagan. He's got the right idea.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 5:21 am to KBeezy
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life outside of earth somewhere else in the universe
Define "life" though. Sure there has to be some form of bacteria, plants, basic life, etc. on other planets but aliens and civilization I'm not so sure. Y'all ever think that as vast as the universe is, maybe the probability for earth to develop life as it has, the probability was 1 and astronomical/infinite odds?
Posted on 9/5/14 at 6:59 am to KBeezy
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Yeah man. I watched a documentary the other night and they said the scientific probability of life outside of earth somewhere else in the universe is approaching 1. That is there is almost 0% chance we are alone
Saw a similar thing. At the low end of their predictions, there were theoretically enough planets capable of sustaining life for every grain of sand on earth
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:04 am to blight
never gets old
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:06 am to engvol
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mean, who is going to be able to prove them wrong?
Other scientists competing for the same grant money.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:30 am to Spock's Eyebrow
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Well, that's pure nonsense, as there is no way to calculate the probability. Sagan wrote the most precise thing that can currently be said about such things in his book "Contact", "The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space." Well put.
So, you agree with Beezy, but you just want to be a chump by quoting Sagan...who is saying the exact same thing?
Pffft!
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:32 am to blight
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:34 am to blight
I'd like to know what happens when we get to that really dense/bright spot in the upper left-hand quadrant.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:34 am to blight
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The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:36 am to blight
How can they make this map? I dont think we have seen this far?
How do they know we aren't the only supercluster?
How do they know we aren't the only supercluster?
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:38 am to blight
Nvm, looks like our entire superluster is just an atom cloud inside an electrode of some giant's brain......which makes humans......the rulers of the universe
This post was edited on 9/5/14 at 7:39 am
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:40 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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How can they make this map? I dont think we have seen this far?
How do they know we aren't the only supercluster?
Well, did you even read, bro:
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So how did they figure out this structure existed — and how did they distinguish it from other structures?
The team of scientists, led by R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii, first studied the motion of some 8,000 galaxies in our neighborhood. By doing so, they could map out certain striking patterns. The universe overall has been expanding ever since the Big Bang. But the team also found that gravity was pulling some galaxies toward each other
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In a fascinating new study for Nature, a team of scientists mapped thousands of other galaxies in our immediate vicinity, and discovered that the Milky Way is part of a truly massive "supercluster" of galaxies that they named Laniakea
Posted on 9/5/14 at 7:43 am to RummelTiger
Get back with me when they find one that can fly down and rape our cattle. I'll be worried then.
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