[MtnClimber]

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[MtnClimber]

[Hot Tabasco]

The latest estimate is that the universe is approx. 26.7 billion years old, surpassing the prior estimate of 13.7 billion years.

In the observable universe, it is estimated that there are approx. 200 billion galaxies with the Milky Way containing approx. 50.

Based on those numbers, I would not discount the possibility that there is life somewhere out there that is hundreds, if not thousands, of years more advanced in technology than us. Just look how far we have come in the past 100 years. God only knows what awaits us in the next 100 - 200 years.

I wish I could live to see it.....

[LizzieD]

Can someone here answer a question? I see many photos of the Milky Way - would that view be visible with the naked eye, or does it only look that way in a photo because of a long exposure?