Quote Originally Posted by trancefusion5
Think about it! Our sun is a star and if every other star has planets revolving around it then the odds are huge that life is out there. Ive heard the goldilocks term used that says a planet has to be in the perfect spot (not to hot not to cold)(not to close to the sun but not to far) and must have all the right gasses to sustain life. I donā??t believe this one bit!
Actually not all stars have planets around them, but that's beside the point. Youre right that the odds are far in favor of life having developed somewhere else in the universe. The theoretical (because how could we ever get an accurate count?) number of stars in the universe is insane hundreds of trillions or something, if anyone knows the figure . . .
Anyway even if ony 1/10th of the stars have planets then the chance for ETs is still huge.
The question of wether or not we ever meet ETs depends, in part, on how long species last. Will humans be around long enough for a message from another star system to ever reach us? Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighbor star, is 4 or 5 lightyears away. It takes fucking LIGHT 5 years to get here, and its such a miniscule distance even just in terms of our own galaxy.

So how long, on average, do you all think a species, something similar to our own, would last?
Or should i start a new thread for that?