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What is the total number of galaxies in the universe? Sagan assumed 100 billion. Is that still valid? Recently the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) surveyed, to the faintest levels yet detected, a small area of sky. Extrapolating from the number of galaxies detected by HST to that expected over the whole sky, I calculate 130 billion galaxies, slightly larger than Sagans estimate. Then the number of stars in the universe is 400 billion x 130 billion, or about 50,000 billion billion. A billion billion. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. So, grasp the concept of a billion billion, then think of 50 thousand of those. Easy!
Originally posted by ixiy
Aliens get a kick out of watching human behaviour, like watching the movie "Mad Max"....... We are probabily useful only as a fuel source, like the movie "The Matrix".......... Don't think we make very good slaves.....
It would be too boring to find a universe empty of life or intelligent life except for us, human beings. So bored that we may create/seed life on other planets which will probabliy make us God then....no?
Nature does not create/evolve a species that outstrips all others species in terms of technological intelligent evolution in such a short time. Mankind is the only species on this planet that seems to have broken mother natures rules/balance.
Originally posted by ferretman2
ixiy......
Nature does not create/evolve a species that outstrips all others species in terms of technological intelligent evolution in such a short time. Mankind is the only species on this planet that seems to have broken mother natures rules/balance.
Your point is moot......since there is no other 'intelligent life' or 'organism' to compare it to.
[edit on 12-7-2006 by ferretman2]
Originally posted by Thekherham
We will know we are not alone when a spaceship lands somewhere on this planet, an alien steps out and says, Greetings, Earthlings, we are from the planet .... (whatever it might be).
Until that happens, everything that's written, everything on the internet, is specualtion.
And by the way, I do believe there is life on other worlds, but they are not next door, as it were, they are a lot further away than that.
Originally posted by ferretman2
ixiy......
Nature does not create/evolve a species that outstrips all others species in terms of technological intelligent evolution in such a short time. Mankind is the only species on this planet that seems to have broken mother natures rules/balance.
Your point is moot......since there is no other 'intelligent life' or 'organism' to compare it to.
[edit on 12-7-2006 by ferretman2]
Originally posted by ElimakuAlso that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is not so scientific like many people ironically believe. For example why would they say the universe is infinite when at the end people are traveling to a restaurant at the edge of the universe!?! Seriously that movie was all over the place with ludicrousness! Anyways I'm new here (just registered today) and that was just my 2 cents I needed to say in this thread.
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