(September 19, 2017 at 7:32 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I've seen figures of 2 trillion galaxies.
Huh? Ok, here is what NASA has said. You are right. But, then again, this is what science always does, unlike religion, adapts when better data comes in.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/201...ly-thought
Quote:NASA article wrote: "This led to an estimate that the observable universe contained about 200 billion galaxies.
The new research shows that this estimate is at least 10 times too low."
Point is that the universe is full of all the same atoms regardless so the likelihood of life existing on other planets is a high probability, even if we found all the life in the universe it would still constitute the minority of planets. But yea, the universe is massive regardless.