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All those uncountable billions and billions and billions of galaxies and their googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) plus number of stars cannot help but over the billions of years since the Big Bang to produce several, if not, millions or billions of different intelligent lifeforms.
***We got a start on covering that possibility with the probability calculations started by Coppedge and others on this thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1904271/posts?page=86#86

Coppedge’s calculations of 1 in 10^123 for the formation of a protein of 445 amino acids in length, and 1 in 10^29345 for the formation of an aggregate of proteins minimal for the existence of life are computed on the basis of the left-handed amino acid problem alone. Once that’s plugged into the Drake Equation, you’re looking at maybe one in a trillion galaxies that might have intelligent life, if you’re lucky. And by lucky, I’m giving you 50 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE leeway.

56 posted on 11/12/2007 5:54:27 PM PST by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)

Re: ...Once that’s plugged into the Drake Equation, you’re looking at maybe one in a trillion galaxies that might have intelligent life, if you’re lucky. And by lucky, I’m giving you 50 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE leeway.

Well, that's real white... of you, Kev!

We... are so confused!

62 posted on 11/12/2007 6:06:25 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)

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Well then....The good Lord sure has wasted a lot of real estate....no?

79 posted on 11/12/2007 6:50:03 PM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)

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