out there

[NickJW]

Some Nasa guy made a formula for calculating the number of technologically advanced lifeforms in our galaxy and the number is
10 000.
And thats just our galaxy, there our millions of galaxies in our universe.
That means there is almost 100% chance that there is other intelligent beings in our galaxy.

Probably the wrong place to post this.

[Telos]

Probably the wrong place to post this.

I don't know what it is about the Quantum Physics section that makes so many posts look like jokes.

[NickJW]

it was the closest thing i could think of to post it, although it is not a joke

[Rob]

Yeah similarly some other big top dog dude I heard of calculated the probability of there being intelligent life out there, and the answer he came up with was "1" (ie 100% certainty). IMO its a bit of a no-brainer when you consider how many stars there really are out there - I mean, we prove intelligent life exists (weeeell, intelligent enough to realise we are intelligent enough to....etc!). The universe is big enough that it may, for all we know, be infinite. Therefore there is more life as evolved as we are out there, point fact! And thus there is no reason they wouldn't visit our planet (especially given the speed of our technological advancement). Thus, UFO's are an extreme probability. Just talking theoretically, but it matches the evidence. How I see it anyway

Rob

[jason]

The odds of there NOT being other intelligent life in our universe would be staggeringly low, when you consider that each galaxy has 50 to 100 billion stars in it, and there are about 100 billion galaxies in the known universe.

Even now, we're constantly finding planets around other star systems.