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100 billion trillion planets might have life
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AAAS: 'One hundred billion trillion' planets where alien life could flourish
There could be one hundred billion trillion Earth-like planets in space, making it "inevitable" that extraterrestrial life exists, according to a leading astronomer.

Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once.
But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms.
The change in thinking has come about because of the new belief there are an abundant number of habitable planets like Earth.
Alan Boss, of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, said there could be as many Earths as there are stars in the universe - one hundred billion trillion.
Because of this, he believes it is "inevitable" that life must have flourished elsewhere over the billions of years the universe has existed.
"If you have a habitable world and let it evolve for a few billion years then inevitably some sort of life will form on it," said Dr Boss.
"It is sort of running an experiment in your refrigerator - turn it off and something will grow in there.
"It would be impossible to stop life growing on these habitable planets."
He believes his views will be proved by NASA's Kepler outer space-based telescope, which takes off in the next three weeks with a mission to track down Earth-like habitable planets.
Within four years Dr Boss, who was speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, believes it will have found one in our galaxy and that will prove his theories about their abundance.
He then would like researchers to build even bigger telescopes and send out an unmanned spacecraft to take photographs of the distant planet that could be up to 30 light years away. It would, however, take at least 2,000 years to report back.
Dr Boss said: "We already know enough now to say that the universe is probably loaded with terrestrial planets similar to the Earth," he says.
"We should expect that there are going to be many planets which are habitable, so probably some are going to be inhabited as well."
Whether the life we find is intelligent is, however, less than inevitable.
"Intelligent life seems to be fleeting," he said. "In terms of the universe it only exists for a fraction of time."
He said it would be a massive coincidence for us to find intelligent life that exists at the same time as us. It is more likely to be bacteria or microbes.
"It is unlikely that 'we' will exist for a further 100,000 years," he said.

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Cool read. Inspired a lot of thought... thanks for sharing!

edit: Although 100 billion trillion? that sounds like a number they just pulled out of their asses.


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Edited by boxcarguy07 (02/15/09 05:19 PM)

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Quote:
"Intelligent life seems to be fleeting," he said. "In terms of the universe it only exists for a fraction of time."



it would be a massive coincidence for us to find intelligent life that exists at the same time as us.

It is more likely to be bacteria or microbes.


which outta tell ya right there that the 'soul' will inevitably pick the BEST form available



which...for the time being anyway, is us  :craven:


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Muppet]
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souls are fake

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: boxcarguy07]
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boxcarguy07 said:
Cool read. Inspired a lot of thought... thanks for sharing!

edit: Although 100 billion trillion? that sounds like a number they just pulled out of their asses. 


Well there is an estimate to 125 billion galaxies in our universe. 125,000,000,000,000. And we are in one solar system of our milky way galaxy alone. And there are 200-400+ billion stars in our galaxy alone. Fucking just might be possible ya?

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Atheist said:
souls are fake


blasphemy!  :snub:


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Atheist said:
He then would like researchers to build even bigger telescopes and send out an unmanned spacecraft to take photographs of the distant planet that could be up to 30 light years away. It would, however, take at least 2,000 years to report back.

here

2000 years? i doubt mankind will even last that long.:slaves:

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Atheist said:
Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once.


ummm...life on earth probley only does happen once...

Atheist said:
souls are fake


you mean you believe/think that souls are fake...


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: jvm]
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jvm said:
boxcarguy07 said:
Cool read. Inspired a lot of thought... thanks for sharing!

edit: Although 100 billion trillion? that sounds like a number they just pulled out of their asses. 


Well there is an estimate to 125 billion galaxies in our universe. 125,000,000,000,000. And we are in one solar system of our milky way galaxy alone. And there are 200-400+ billion stars in our galaxy alone. Fucking just might be possible ya?


oh yeah, it's definitely possible that there are. Just thought it was a random number they chose. But maybe it's not. I dunno


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:psychsplit:"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: boxcarguy07]
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I'm curious how they would judge something like that *accurately* to begin with  :what:


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Muppet]
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Near infinite planets.

Life is inevitable.

Old news!

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: jvm]
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we won't last more than 100,000 years? I'll have ten lives by then


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I want to show you life for what it's worth, from beginning to end from when your life was first launched 'till when it descends back to earth. From pyramiding at it's peak 'till when it turns back into dirt..

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: upinthetrees]
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In my next like I wanna live on a planet that has a bunch of cool ass races! Like the Morrowind World, filled with Tiger head people and shit like that! This world is lame when it comes to the different groups. Humans are nothing more than the same species with a different coat of paint on them.


BORING


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Meaningless speculation, really.

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Atheist said:
Life on Earth used to be thought of as a freak accident that only happened once.
But scientists are now coming to the conclusion that the universe is teeming with living organisms.



it's kinda odd that the bible mentions that there are other earths
and science, with no means of verification has now determined that
there may be other life out there... Hmmmm.


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Atheist]
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Atheist said:
souls are fake



prove it


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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Almond Flour]
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Tea said:
In my next like I wanna live on a planet that has a bunch of cool ass races! Like the Morrowind World, filled with Tiger head people and shit like that! This world is lame when it comes to the different groups. Humans are nothing more than the same species with a different coat of paint on them.


BORING



Nonsense. The variety of species on this planet is astounding. We just can't all speak the same language. But we certainly interact.


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:musicnote:Music doesn't stop at the ears when it begins at the heart.:musicnote:


:psychsplit:"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner is a bible thumper. :oldman:

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: Amber_Glow]
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Amber_Glow said:
Near infinite planets.

Life is inevitable.

Old news!


This.

It's impossible for there not to be life anywhere else considering the sheer amount of planets.

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Re: 100 billion trillion planets might have life [Re: LoveOverAll]
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far from it... I'm anti religion, not an athiest, that's just
another retarded religion that someone wants to choke down your
throat, for someone to make the claim there is no imaginary friend
or that the soul is fake requires just as much faith as believing
there is a god and that the soul is eternal


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