Out of left field topic...I was on the NASA website....

[dawg-n-pikeco]

earlier today and came across a link to a page illustrating the other known solar systems. I thought I had heard before that they had found a couple of stars with planets orbiting them. I was astonished when I looked at the link that there are hundreds of stars known to have planets orbiting them. I didn't count them up but there had to be 2-3 thousand planets. Then they had a stat on there that those discoveries only represent 1/1,000,000,000 of the known universe. Got me to thinking...I have always thought about other life out there in terms of "what is the chance that there is intelligent life out there?". After seeing what I saw today I think I need to change that thinking to "How couldn't there be life out there?" It seems a mathematical certainty that life has to be somewhere else. What say you chatters?

 

[McDonoughDawg]

I say they are out there, and much more intelligent than us*

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[Jughead.]

There is the old Drake Equation to try and calculate, but they have a new

equation that they say is more exact.

Gotta be life out there somewhere, imo.

But, who knows?

 

[Jaman_Dawg]

We are not alone .they may be preparing us for the news,however..........

that is speculation and doubt it happens in my lifetime.

Wish it would ,though.........

 

[Jaman_Dawg]

correct ,and it has been updated.Far more now*

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[Ty TyDawg]

I say global warming is a hoax***

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[SleepingDawgLying]

Look at how fragile is the ability for earth to support life.

Just the tilt of the planet dramatically changes conditions in the two hemispheres. It changes it to/from extremes in the polar regions. Then, consider the placement of the earth in relation to distance from the sun. It is absolutely perfect, and it has to be, otherwise no life could exist.

There are other planets right here in our own solar system that we know cannot and do not support life. In the scale of the universe, stars and their orbiting planets, it makes it extremely difficult for a planet to be able to support life.

Then, if a planet can support life, where would it come from? (that's yet another discussion)

 

[The Legendary Dawg Van Damme]

We are the Ferguson of Galaxies.**

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