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supremzach
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i want to know what evryone thinks about this topic

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Avorne
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Intelligent life or just life in general? You could of fleshed out the OP a little bit.

Anyway, I believe it's wholly possible that life exists on other planets, probably single-celled organisms but there's a small chance there's some intelligent life out there.

Deltrix
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I think it is possible. The universe is so big.

Idiot22
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I doubt it. I think there might be single celled like algae or something like it but i doubt intelligent because we should of found another kind by now

FlashGameInformer
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If we have 1 planet with 100's of species whos to say there not another planet with even 1 orginism

Avorne
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I doubt it. I think there might be single celled like algae or something like it but i doubt intelligent because we should of found another kind by now


Do you know how big the universe is? And how little of it we've explored? What you've just said is the equivalent of saying "there isn't a four-leaf clover in this 200-mile wide clover field because I've stood here for 20 minutes and still haven't found one"
silvermoon123
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I think there might be single celled like algae or something like it but i doubt intelligent because we should of found another kind by now

Why not? You have no idea what other planets could exist, or what features they have. There probably is another planet, at least one, where life is possible for some species. Earth can't be that unique.
supremzach
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im glad its getting popular

Idiot22
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Do you know how big the universe is


No, its frickin big but in 2007 we sent probes and we found other planets that are earth sized but just gas planets. We could've found like a hint of other intelligent life.
supremzach
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and flashgameinformore its 100,000,000,000

Einfach
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I doubt it. I think there might be single celled like algae or something like it

This first part gave me hope.
but i doubt intelligent because we should of found another kind by now

This second part displays your ignorance of the fact that there are billions of galaxies.
Moe
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No, its frickin big but in 2007 we sent probes and we found other planets that are earth sized but just gas planets. We could've found like a hint of other intelligent life.


It helps to stay up to date with recent scientific discoveries.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20110205/NEWS/102050330/1020
In less than a year, NASAâs Kepler telescope has found 54 unconfirmed planets that appear to have lucked out the way Earth did, being neither too cold nor too hot to support life. If they also have âjust rightâ surface and atmosphere, plus water and carbon, look out: We could have us plenty of other places that could grow mold or something, maybe even life intelligent enough to be pondering whether itâs all by itself.
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http://www.telegram.com/article/2011020 ⦠50330/1020


"In less than a year, NASAâs Kepler telescope has found 54 unconfirmed planets that appear to have lucked out the way Earth did, being neither too cold nor too hot to support life."

Wow that's pretty cool.

Okay found where I ran through the drake equation, I also gave life a really hard time with this one, so the actual numbers are off to be against the chances of life arising.

Using our galaxy as a base there are about 100 billion stars. Now the number of galaxies out there is estimated at around 125 billion. So let's estimate that each galaxy has around 100 billion stars each.
-That's roughly 12,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. This is being very conservative as well given some estimates go as large as 400 billion just in our galaxy.
-Let's say for the sake of argument only 10% of those stars have planets. That's 1,250,000,000,000,000,000,000 planet supporting stars.
-Now let's say only 1% (likely higher) of those has a planet with the potential to support life.
That leaves us with 12,500,000,000,000,000,000 potential life baring planets.
-Now let's say there is a 1 in a million chance that the planets that has the potential does develop life. This gives us 12,500,000,000,000
-Let's really give life a hard time and say it's 1 in 10 million chance that intelligent life develops. Leaving us with 1,250,000 sentient life forms in the universe.
-Now let's say half of those managed to get at least as far if not further advanced then we are without killing themselves in the process. This leaves us with just 625,000 sentient life forms in the universe.
-Finally let's say only 1% of those 625,000 developed more advanced technology then us. This leaves 6,250 alien life forms more advanced then us, and this is being really conservative with the numbers of stars and generous with the odds.
Dragonz5
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There are billions of stars in our galaxy. There are billions of galaxies (or according to some theories infinity) galaxies in the universe. The question isn't is there other life out there, the question is: Is it even statistically possible that there might not be?

Drink
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i think it is possible that there may be a chance of intelligent lifeforms on another planet but probably not close enough to earth that anyone would ever find

MageGrayWolf
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There are billions of stars in our galaxy. There are billions of galaxies (or according to some theories infinity) galaxies in the universe. The question isn't is there other life out there, the question is: Is it even statistically possible that there might not be?


The universe may be infinite but the matter within is not.
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