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Originally Posted by T@T
My thinking is basic life is probable to about .01% in the "Goldilocks" zone,if that planet that has basic life can survive for about a billion years..chances are it would have evolved intelligent life.
May seem to be a small number but it could possibly be 10's of thousands of planets in our galaxy alone that have intelligent life. If we talk the universe were taking billions.
One things for sure, none of us here today will be alive to find out and possibly no human ever will.
It's so hard to wrap our "pea-brains" on the vastness of space,our galaxy will collide with another in about 3 billion years(Andromeda) but chances are nothing will hit each other, we are talking billions upon billion of stars and their planets not even coming close to each other...that is vast! can the average person understand gravity? pull a dime out of your pocket...put it in the palm of your hand and then try to imagine it weighing as much as a large mountain...this is what a "dime" size peice of a nutron star weighs.
Crazy stuff.
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It took life on Earth 4 billion years to evolve to the point of multicellular life, and 4.5 billion to evolve intelligence as we know it. It's just as difficult for us to wrap our brains around the shear length of time certain things take to happen.