RE: Aliens - Are they out there? Have they visited us? And related questions
December 17, 2010 at 8:47 am
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2010 at 8:48 am by Welsh cake.)
(December 15, 2010 at 6:48 pm)theVOID Wrote: That's 60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 PlanetsWhat estimates would you hazard that said planet not only existed within the goldilocks zone but also had a Jupiter-like gas-giant planet neighbour that acted like a "cosmic vacuum" preventing the majority of impacts from meteorites and stray comets obliterating the celestial body?
Even if 1/10 are in the goldilocks zone.
That's 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the goldilocks zone.
If only 1% of those have the conditions necessary for life
That's 60,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets where abiogenesis can happen
Not to mention calculating the instances where life can arise from non-life and evolve to a sentient race that forms a cooperative society that survives long enough from internal and external factors (wars, disease, mass extinction events and so on) to prosper and become so ridiculously technologically advanced they've developed a means of detecting Earth-like planets that can support life and construct the means to achieve faster than light space travel to get there?
While still possible, I have to admit the odds (if they can ever be worked out) aren't simply minute, they're infinitesimal.