Numbers are off. Drake Equation did not include enough factors. The authors of the article need to read Ward & Brownlee’s “Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.”
Prove it: show me one.
So is there a planet with just women out there?
NOW, if only we could find ourselves James T. Kirk and the warp drive on Enterprise, perhaps we could find them, that would just be dandy, wouldn’t it?
Eventually, we will get this one little radio message from beyond our world...and then...our entire vision of the universe will change overnight, and likely scare us to death.
Only 2-billion? I say there’s at least a Trillion. Prove me wrong!
I wonder if they have the internet, ipod’s, video games, mini malls, mcdonalds, etc.. /sarc
Perhaps God has a separate covenant with another species on a separate planet.
Who knows?
It has been said that our planet is perfectly situated in the galaxy (which itself if perfectly situated in the universe) to best observe the cosmos.
We already have an alien as pResident.
“The spacecraft does so by looking for the dimming that occurs when a world transits or moves in front of a star.”
So, this means that they must have statistics that indicate what percentage of stars have a planetary elliptic that is aligned properly with our star. Unless the elliptic is oriented edge-on with us, not a single ‘world’ orbiting that star would ever transit or move in front of that star (between us and the star).
hmmm....
Are they where the 7 missing states are???
Pinto: Okay. That means that..our whole solar system...could be, like...one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being......This is too much!
That means..one tiny atom in my fingernail could be—
Professor Jennings: Could be one little...tiny universe
Pinto: Could l buy some pot from you?