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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
Is the document real? Who knows. Could it be? Sure. However if you don't believe in life on other planets you are very naive. According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe. They've counted the galaxies in a particular region, and multiplied this up to estimate the number for the whole universe.
In just our galaxy, the Milky Way, each star is a sun or some type of burning object. If in the Milky Way galaxy one in every 100,000 starts were a sun like our sun. And if one in every 100,000 of those had planets revolving around it. And if one in every 100,000 of those plants had the capability to sustain life. In just the Milky Way galaxy there would be 100,000 plants with life.
Now maybe that life is a million years behind us and still a probe or a germ of some type of life form, or maybe it's a million years more advanced than ours. But if just one of those planets had life like ours and was maybe 10,000 years advanced from us could they travel here? Probably.
Multiply that possibility by 100 billion galaxies. There has to be other life out there more advanced than us. Statistically it's not possible there is not life on other planets.
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They have actually upped their estimates to from 500 billion to 1 trillion galaxies with an average of 400 billion stars each. If you plug that into the Drake equation, there could be upwards of 40 TRILLION civilizations as advanced or more so than us out there. However, given the distances, you need to travel many times faster than light to get anywhere, so Einstein has to be wrong, or there have to be wormholes or the ability to artificially create them, or warp drive, or hyperspatial travel, or something. Add to that our location in our galaxy and in the universe as a whole is somewhat less than prominent, it's hard to believe any of them have ever visited us-----they would have 40 trillion other destinations, most of them probably more interesting than Earth.