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    #2
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    It'd be a awful waste of space if it didn't. Milky Way has 400 billion stars (plus or minus 200 billion :)) Probably half has planets.

    Also if we were so damn important (God and all that), shouldn't earth be in the centre of the galaxy instead of in the suburbs?
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    Nice poll btw :D


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    Vagabondo
    Registered Users Posts: 25 ✭Vagabondo


    I am sure it does! It's just a different form of life we don't have a clue about.


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    #4
    Pino76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Pino76


    biko wrote: »
    It'd be a awful waste of space if it didn't.

    Amen ("Contact"? ;-) )
    biko wrote: »
    Also if we were so damn important (God and all that), shouldn't earth be in the centre of the galaxy instead of in the suburbs?

    I absolutely agree with you.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Pino76 wrote: »
    Amen ("Contact"? ;-) )
    Indeed :D


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    lisbon_lions
    Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭lisbon_lions


    Well, we know that intelligent life form can evolve given the right conditions. Therefore we know that the probability for such an event is not zero. Whilst this probability may be very small indeed, when you consider the amount of stars in our galaxy alone (and the increasing number of exoplanets being discovered) then you have to suppose that this probability approaches one quite rapidly.

    I have no doubt that there are intelligent lifeforms out there. Being limited by the speed of light is a bit crap though as communicating with them would be sloooow

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7891132.stm?lss


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    Mena
    Registered Users Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭Mena


    I'd say yes, of course there is. Will we ever see/meet it? Probably not. Is it intelligent? Who knows...

    The Drake Equation is an interesting bit of work you may find helpful.


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