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Might be. One never knows. All about scale.Could our universe be nothing but a child playing with a sparkler?
Might be. One never knows. All about scale.Could our universe be nothing but a child playing with a sparkler?
The universe contains more than a billion billion stars, many of them millions to billions of years older than our sun. Do you think with those odds that we are the only inhabitable planet?
Yes there are billions and billions of stars and planets making it unlikely that Earth has the only forms of life but there is another factor here, time. **** sapiens have only been on Earth less than a million years and probably will not exist here in another million years. Time is infinite. Other races may have developed space travel 5 million years ago or 50 million years ago or even longer and are now extinct. Other races may develop space travel in 10 million years or longer when we are extinct. Over the course of time there may be billions of planets with life at different times but if they aren't developed at the same time as us chances are infinitesimal that we will ever meet or have proof of their existence.
The universe contains more than a billion billion stars, many of them millions to billions of years older than our sun. Do you think with those odds that we are the only inhabitable planet?
Hal could.I’m not doubting your numbers - but - who actually counted a to a billion billion to verify that amount?
I bet no human could count a billion billion.
MoKelly
Actually we are even less than that. There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all of the beaches on Earth!In the grand scheme of things we are no more than a speck of sand in a huge sandbox.