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AGE: 33
Occupation: System/Network San Administrator
Hobbies: Electronic MP3 Junkie
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| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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Why do I run Seti@home. Figure there are about 100 billion stars in a galaxy and recently the new guess of about 250-300 billion galaxies (Hubbles new HST camera reveals twice as much as it did before, the old estimate was 125 billion). So for the ease of conversation lets just say 100 billion times 100 billion (we will figure low) is the number of stars we are talking about. The number looks like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
Now, the odds at winning the lottery are about one in 130,000,000. Unlikely but obviously possible it happens all the time. Some have even won it twice (I have no idea on the odds of that).
So in short, it is unlikely that Earth is the only planet in the entire universe with intelligent life. Unless of course its a 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10 octillion) chance.
By the way the number is probably actually alot larger, most of the galaxies we see with hubble are billions of light years away. Stars have born and died in that time that we will never see.
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