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The Universe is so huge in fact that we’ll have to play around with scales so one can get a better idea.
Let's imagine that the entire universe that we have seen in all the worlds’ telescopes, all the galaxies, all trillion of them, extending out 13 billion light years in every direction is shrunk down to the size of a golf ball.
If we do a volume calculation, the actual universe contains 10 to the power 60 of those golf balls! Wow, I guess we didn't shrink things down far enough, but this will have to do. So how big a volume would 10 to the power 60 golf balls fill up? Try a sphere 850 light years across! So imagine a mass of golf balls that big, and each one of those golf balls contains all the stars and galaxies that we can see through our telescopes!!
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Now let’s try it with speed. Ready? Imagine traveling so fast that you can go from on end of the galaxy to the other in just one second. At this speed the entire galaxy would be in reach before you can say the word "go", and wham, you're there! At this speed, you could travel to the nearest galaxy Andromeda in 22 seconds flat. And you could cross from one end of the visible universe to the other in 72 hours.
So, lets speed up our warp vehicles again, so that we can travel a quintillion light years every second. At such a speed we could cross the known universe 100 million times in one second.
So, how long would it take to cross from one side of the universe to the other?
…………….3.7 BILLION YEARS!!!………………
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For arguments sake, lets imagine that primitive life happens once in the lifetime of a trillion galaxies, and out of those only one in a trillion ever evolves out of its womb planet into a space-faring civilization. In this example then we are still left with an astounding 10 to the par 75 advanced societies –more alien cultures than the number of atoms composing planet Earth!
Again, for some perspective on such a gargantuan number, there are more advanced civilizations partying it up around the galaxies than there are atoms in every single grain of sand on all the beaches and deserts in the world, and then some!
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Astronomer John Barrows of the University of Sussex writes, “Suppose that we extend the classification upwards. Members of these hypothetical civilizations of Type IV, V, VI, ... and so on, would be able to manipulate the structures in the universe on larger and larger scales, encompassing groups of galaxies, clusters, and superclusters of galaxies.” Civilizations beyond Type III may have enough energy to escape our dying universe via holes in space.
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Originally posted by Lost_Mind
One could argue that using the size of the universe as a benchmark could provide an argument to the opposite, meaning that the distances are SO great that transport here from out there would be extremely unthinkably difficult and IF life is out ther that it cant make it here without dreaming up some very glossy scifi transport systems to get here.
Originally posted by ArMaP
As for the presence of intelligent extra-terrestrial beings in the Solar system, that is far less likely than their existence in the universe. Not only must they exist, they must have the means of traveling through space, they also must travel to this star system.
PS: if I do not post anymore you can assume that I really died, but you do not have the means to really know it.
Originally posted by Solarskye
But is there proof that we're not alone? There's an overwhelming amount of speculation but not one single solid evidence of alien life. An unidentified flying object(UFO) is what it is until it becomes a indentified flying object (IFO). A UFO doen't mean it's alien's flying around in their spaceships.
Originally posted by internos
Yes, maybe the technological evolution reached all this results by himself, but i have some doubts about it: too many secrets around the development of new aircrafts, even CIVIL ones, and many steps of this evolution are still UNEXPLAINED.
I'm not making outrageous claims, but i'd like to know HOW exactly we reached some results: still waiting to see the original studies which have been used in order to develop the stealth, or the first microchip, and MANY other things.
Yes, but that does not mean that Aliens are real, and that is what you wrote in the title.
Originally posted by mikesingh
Well guys, that's exactly the point! Do we know at this juncture, where our technology would be one million years hence? Teleportation? Hyper luminal transportation? Time travel? Sci-fi today. Reality tomorrow!
I guess you're right, I think that I could be dead and still keep on posting on ATS.
Firstly, you not posting on ATS?? The odds are heavily stacked against it!!
ArmMaP, thank you for making your point in a civil manner as always:
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by internos
Many inventions are just the result of the evolution of other inventions, like the microchip is the natural evolution of the transistor.
Other inventions, like airplanes, appear only after many years (or even centuries) of failed attempts because they were working based on wrong ideas. Leonardo daVinci may have made many advanced (for his time) things, but he could not make a flying machine because he did not understood (and apparently nobody did until the 18th or 19th century) the mechanics behind flight. Also, there wasn't any real good power source to make airplanes until the end of the 19th century.
That is a good example of how many people though many years can try many ways of achieving something and fail because they have started based on wrong assumptions.