Maybe We Are Not Alone After All

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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on October 15, 2015 at 11:18

Cannot be... They have just announced they are selling off loads of new sites for housing I guess. Must be Lidl. (Actually, if it were a Waitrose would it get everyone's attention?)

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 15, 2015 at 12:30

With at least 100 billion stars in our galaxy, even if only one in a million stars was orbited by habitable planets, that gives a minimum of 100,000 star systems in our galaxy alone where life could exist. I've always found the possibility of life NOT existing somewhere out there pretty incredible. Problem is you can't just pop over to check them out!

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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on October 15, 2015 at 15:34

So the Fermi Paradox is in trouble?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 15, 2015 at 16:43

I've always thought that the Fermi Paradox was built on a false assumption. If there is intelligent life in the galaxy, why would they want to visit this one little planet when there are billions upon billions of others to have a peep at? It's a bit like a microbe siting on a leaf high in a tree in Finsbury Park thinking there is no human life because no one has ever popped round to say hello.

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Permalink Reply by John D on October 15, 2015 at 17:20

In answer to " Where are they ", perhaps God, when resting on the seventh day, said " Sod it, I'm not going through THAT again "

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