Sunday, May 3, 2009

Some thoughts on alien life...

Our galaxy, which we call the Milky Way Galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars it. Currently after only viewing less than 10% of the visible universe, we have identified about 3,000 galaxies. Estimates are that in the entire universe there are around 125 billion galaxies.So, averaging 400 billion stars per galaxy, at 125 billion galaxies, that means we can estimate there are 50,000 billion billion or 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the entire universe. To say we are anywhere near alone in the universe is probably the absolute dumbest thing anyone could ever say.
As for alien life that's intelligent and can navigate the stars and galaxy and universe, well let's think here...
Aside from the millions of UFO sightings worldwide and the fact that people from military grunts to PhD's to world leaders have admitted to either seeing or working with UFO's and aliens.... we can make an educated guess as to whether or not there are aliens at our level or higher out there. 
Scientists used to say that it's impossible for aliens to visit us because stars are just too far apart. Now they admit there are ways to get around that, but that we don't have the ability to do so yet. However, our star is young compared to others. The binary stars Zeta Reticuli 1 & 2 for example are about twice the age of Sun. Assuming there is life in that system as well and it followed a similar developmental path to ours, do the math and you can guess that they have been around for 500,000 years to our 300,000, do the math again and you can figure their move from nomadic tribal peoples without language, science, etc. to a "civilzation" began 10,000 years ago to our 6,000. Meaning they have about a 4,000 year head start on us. Imagine our world in the year 6009 instead of 2009. Wouldn't you expect us to have the ability to travel to other planets, have anti gravity, all the star trek/star wars thing and more by then? If so, then why think others, who have been around longer can't already?

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