Our most detailed observations of the distant Universe, from the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field, gave us an estimate of 170 billion galaxies. A theoretical calculation from a few years ago — the first to account for galaxies too small, faint, and distant to be seen — put the estimate far higher: at 2 trillion. But even that estimate is too low. There ought to be at least 6 trillion, and perhaps more like 20 trillion, galaxies, if we’re ever able to count them all.
So I used Google to multiply 20 trillion by 0.01. The answer was 200 billion. This gives me an idea of how likely it is for intelligent life to exist outside of Earth even it is incredibly rare.
So I used Google to multiply 20 trillion by 0.01. The answer was 200 billion. This gives me an idea of how likely it is for intelligent life to exist outside of Earth even it is incredibly rare.
IKR? And even our own galaxy alone is staggeringly big! To think that there may be 20 trillion more floating around out there is truly mind-boggling. p.s. This reminded me of Monty Python - Galaxy...
IKR? And even our own galaxy alone is staggeringly big! To think that there may be 20 trillion more floating around out there is truly mind-boggling.
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40, 000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
!!!!!!
So I used Google to multiply 20 trillion by 0.01. The answer was 200 billion. This gives me an idea of how likely it is for intelligent life to exist outside of Earth even it is incredibly rare.
"Gotta be somewhere" hits different than "could be within a few hundred light-years".
It's truly staggering how big the universe it. Way too big to comprehend.
IKR? And even our own galaxy alone is staggeringly big! To think that there may be 20 trillion more floating around out there is truly mind-boggling.
p.s. This reminded me of Monty Python - Galaxy Song