I love a chicken shish even when sober but doner kebab is definitely best when pissed with everything on it esp extra hot sauce.
The observable universe - and that's only the bit that we can still see - I heard put in these terms: if our GALAXY (let alone our solar system) was as big as a full stop in a book, the universe would be the size of a library as big as a basketball court. Think.
In all fairness if there's anything outside our Galaxy we will probably never make contact so we can only speculate on what's inside our Galaxy. We're still just a tiny blue dot but orders of magnitude larger than when compared to whole universe. In our Galaxy we're probably early. Astrobiologists predict that we're really on the early side of planets capable of sustaining life existing. Many millions of years from now there will be many more planets that could sustain life. We might just be the first intelligent life in our corner of the galaxy.
Way too many planets / stars / galaxys for there not to be some form of life out there. No talking little green men with huge eyes but some kind of life has to be out there.
Given the right chemical conditions and temperature, over the course of billions of years some molecules will form patterns and replicate themselves. As to what is 'intelligent' life, or indeed consciousness, is open to vast interpretation. But if you just go off the Drake equation, there must be MILLIONS of forms of 'life' even in this galaxy.
Watched a great edition of Horizon last night on i player. If you really want to feel small, watch 'Mapping the Universe'. Truly ****ing mind-blowing stuff.
In another galaxy maybe... But the gap between galaxies is so huge we'll never cross between them or detect them. Due to the expansion of space between galaxies, many of them we could never reach without FTL travel (impossible by our current knowledge of physics). The gap between us and many galaxies is expanding faster than speed of light. Life may be exceedingly rare. Not only must the conditions be right but they have to evolve with their own balance systems built in. (Like oxygen cycle on earth or Nitrogen). If any element can not be cycled that is necessary for that form of life then life will be short lived. If life starts on 1 in 100 thousand planets and a balanced (sustainable) set of balances only occurs in 1 in 100 thousand instances of life. Life will only succeed in 1 in 10 billion planets. (I don't know odds obviously just giving an example of how it's feasible we're alone). There are just 100 billion planets estimated in our galaxy. If my out-the-arse odds are correct, there are 100 billion planets in our galaxy which means only 10 would have sustainable life. In our entire-huge galaxy. And... We may not exist at the same time. What are odds of high intelligence evolving? 1 in 100? That would mean only 1 in 10 milkyway sized galaxies would have sapient life-forms. It's not infeasible mankind never encounters intelligent life or even non intelligent life even if we expand across much of the galaxy.
i think your odds are way off. the starting point is what science is investigating right now.. where is there water and they are proving where there is water right now through observation. https://www.rt.com/viral/356189-earth-like-planet-water/ take a look. there could be one 4.5 light years away! if there is liquid water then chances are there's oxygen.... stands to reason. After that anything could be the case. Start with liquid water, if that can be observed you'll probably find some form of life.
They think they've detected water on Europa. Here's what that Horizon finished up last night: Dark energy From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to be confused with dark fluid, dark flow, or dark matter. Part of a series on Physical cosmology please log in to view this image Big Bang · Universe Age of the universe Chronology of the universe Early universe[show] Expansion · Future[show] Components · Structure[hide] Components Lambda-CDM model Dark energy · Dark fluid · Dark matter Structure Shape of the universe Galaxy filament · Galaxy formation Large quasar group Large-scale structure Reionization · Structure formation Experiments[show] Scientists[show] Subject history[show] please log in to view this image Category please log in to view this image Cosmology portal please log in to view this image Astronomy portal v t e In physical cosmology and astronomy, dark energy is an unknown form ofenergy which is hypothesized to permeate all of space, tending to acceleratethe expansion of the universe.[1] Dark energy is the most accepted hypothesis to explain the observations since the 1990s indicating that the universe isexpanding at an accelerating rate.
Depends how you define 'life'. We may be short of little green men, but we could well find organisms on Europa, let alone within the rest of the galaxy.
Do you think Einstein would have accepted dark energy? I don't want to sound all Sisu, but there's no real evidence for it except that we don't know how else to describe what's happening (Steady State?).
