The Astronomy and Physics thread. And things of the like.

[BurghFan]

Quote: Originally Posted by TripleCrown9

I absolutely, 100% refuse to believe that we're the only living beings.

Well yeah, there're millions of different species on our planet

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But yeah, there's got to be intelligence out there somewhere

[dickey1331]

There's a theory out there that's pretty interesting that explains why we may be the only "intelligent" life out there. I'll see if I can find it.

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickey1331

There's a theory out there that's pretty interesting that explains why we may be the only "intelligent" life out there. I'll see if I can find it.

If its the one I'm thinking of, its been making the rounds over the last week. It basically says all the Aliens are dead and deals with the Fermi Paradox.

I personally don't buy it at all. At least not when it comes to outside our galactic neighborhood.

[dickey1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by PVarck31

If its the one I'm thinking of, its been making the rounds over the last week. It basically says all the Aliens are dead and deals with the Fermi Paradox. I personally don't buy it at all. At least not when it comes to outside our galactic neighborhood.

No this was from awhile ago but it might be the same. I'm not sure. It was from Reddit or some similar website. It was pretty long dealing with different scenarios.

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickey1331

No this was from awhile ago and deals with why we are probably the most advanced life form.

Oh okay. I still don't think that's true though. 40 billion potential Earth like planets in our own galaxy, and we are a small galaxy to boot. Multiply that by billions upon billions of galaxies. I just can't see how we are the only ones.

[dickey1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by PVarck31

Oh okay. I still don't think that's true though. 40 billion potential Earth like planets in our own galaxy, and we are a small galaxy to boot. Multiply that by billions upon billions of galaxies. I just can't see how we are the only ones.

I think it was the great filter that seems to fall into the Fermi Paradox.

The problem with getting to where we are currently at is too many things that have to go right. A little more oxygen and we all die. A little hotter or colder and we all die. It's very possible we are the one in a billion chance of getting to this point.

[PVarck31]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickey1331

I think it was the great filter that seems to fall into the Fermi Paradox. The problem with getting to where we are currently at is too many things that have to go right. A little more oxygen and we all die. A little hotter or colder and we all die. It's very possible we are the one in a billion chance of getting to this point.

I agree everything has to go right, but the sheer amount of planets that exist that are in their stars habitable zone are astronomical. Plus who is to say that life on another planet has to breathe the same ratio of oxygen that we do? They my sustain themselves totally different. It's like things we have discovered deep in the oceans that have no right being able to survive in those conditions. Yet they defy everything we know and do.

One in a billion doesn't even come close to the odds either. It's more like one in the multiple sextillion range. I think that's a 1 and 27 0's.

But like we talked about before, who the hell knows lol.

[dickey1331]

Quote: Originally Posted by PVarck31

I agree everything has to go right, but the sheer amount of planets that exist that are in their stars habitable zone are astronomical. Plus who is to say that life on another planet has to breathe the same ratio of oxygen that we do? They my sustain themselves totally different. It's like things we have discovered deep in the oceans that have no right being able to survive in those conditions. Yet they defy everything we know. One in a billion doesn't even come close to the odds either. It's more like one in the multiple sextillion range. I think that's a 1 and 27 0's. But like we talked about before, who the hell knows lol.

Haha yeah I just said billion as I didn't want to look up the number.

You're right by the sheer numbers there has to be some sort of intelligent life out there.

I agree with many of the theory's out there. Many of them makes sense and I certainly don't know which one is correct.