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07-17-2014, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
I read this somewhere and may not recall the exact math, but it went something like this.
If we look at just the Milky Way Galaxy, and assume one in every 100,000 stars has a planet revolving around it, and of those, one of every 100,000 planets has the ability to sustain life, and one of the 100,000 that could actually does have life, there are 100,000 planets that have life just in our Galaxy. And there are now what, 10 known Galaxies? Maybe more by now.
Just the math alone makes it impossible not to believe there is life besides us out there. And some of that life has to be more advanced than we are.
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I believe that's from Cosmos (the book) by Carl Sagan.
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