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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I once saw some scientists trying to figure out what the probabilities were that we were alone in the universe. It was overwhelmingly probable that there is other life in the universe.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
And the numbers they use in that link are just for our galaxy.
It can make one feel very small, all of this.
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Freedom consonant with responsibility.
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