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well think about it i mean there are probally like a few billion starts or way more and we cant be the only lucky ones out there. i mean were not that luck there must be someone else out there
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For me it's a certainty - the universe is simply too large for there not to be life 'out there'. Echoing bilzey I could take a pretty good guess that there would be 'life' under Europa's ice shell, and while it may be nothing more than bacteria, wouldnt that completely change how we think of ourselves as a race? Far beyond our solar system, but even still within our own galaxy, there are plenty of places that could support life - people don't realise how robust life is. Intelligent life? Definite possibility, I would say, within our galaxy. The question is how do you define intelligent? Self-awareness? Then surely animals would be classed as intelligent life (which would be a massive breakthrough anyway) If it's 'proper' intelligent life you're looking for, it will exist out there someplace. It is highly unlikely it would look anything like us, or even be anthropomorphous for that matter - but again, people don't realise just how big the universe is - infinite (well, almost, if you believe in the theory of multiple universes)
It's simply too big for there not to be intelligent life out there somewhere.
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The music is funny in that video. Basically it shows one of Hubble's pictures, the ultra deep field which is a snapshot of an empty patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at an arm's length. The photo contains 10,000 galaxies and each galaxy contains up to a trillion stars. Most of those stars have planets. That's the number of letters in 800,000 500 page novels with 500 words on each page. That's 8,000,000,000 500 page books for just that picture which is of only an empty patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at an arm's length. Keep that number, 8 billion, in mind. Grab a grain of sand, go outside and hold it in front of the sky. How many grains can fit in that sky? Then remember that you can't see the whole sky. What about the sky on the other side of the world? The Hubble may not have seen all the galaxies in that patch of sky. It probably didn't. There's probably a lot more than 8 billion books of stars (in letters) per grain of sand. Our solar system has 8 planets and 162 moons. If one third of the stars in that photo have that many planets, that's 56 quadrillion 667 trillion planets--the letters in 45 billion books.
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Quote: from Praise the Lard at 5:43 pm on Jan. 9, 2007
 Well, first off, what's your definition of life? For me, life is a manifestation of energy, and many people assume things not to be alive because they don't have the right perspective. I believe everything is alive, although maybe not at the same timeframe we live in.
You have redefined life to the point of meaninglessness. A rock is a timeshifted energy manifestation?
Second off, I believe we live in an infinite universe.
The scientific community doesn't, though, because that's nonsensical.
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Whatever probability was surmounted to create intelligent life on Earth could most likely be replicated given the massive sample-size of planets in the universe.
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You'd think a thousand miles would be enough,
I guess I'll keep walking.
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