100 Billion Habitable Earth-Like Planets In Our Galaxy

[Hoid]

There is statistical probability and if you were to find out what that was you would understand why it is virtually impossible for there not to be many many thousands of habitable worlds.

The only way Earth could be unique would be if there was a God running the show.

btw if someone believes that its fine with me.

 

[Curious Cdn]

There is statistical probability and if you were to find out what that was you would understand why it is virtually impossible for there not to be many many thousands of habitable worlds.

The only way Earth could be unique would be if there was a God running the show.

btw if someone believes that its fine with me.

We don't have any idea how life came into being. The conditions needed for life to generate out of the no-organic are also unknown at present. That we are here at all might be a freak occurance as we can't even see any of the possible intermediate chemical stages between inorganic and living matter in the environment around us. We need rather more than our gut instincts that life even originates on planets and not in some other space environment to build a statistical model.

As the old Enterprise computer used to tell them: "Insufficient data for a meaningful answer"

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

We don't have any idea how life came into being. The conditions needed for life to generate out of the no-organic are also unknown at present. That we are here at all might be a freak occurance as we can't even see any of the possible intermediate chemical stages between inorganic and living matter in the environment around us. We need rather more than our gut instincts that life even originates on planets and not in some other space environment to build a statistical model.

As the old Enterprise computer used to tell them: "Insufficient data for a meaningful answer"

Therefore, Hoid makes one up based on his emotional needs, and then blathers pseudo-scientific jargon he doesn't understand to try to justify it.

Sad, really.

 

[taxslave]

The number of habitable planets? Well, so far that is just one.

Are you sure about that?

There is statistical probability and if you were to find out what that was you would understand why it is virtually impossible for there not to be many many thousands of habitable worlds.

The only way Earth could be unique would be if there was a God running the show.

btw if someone believes that its fine with me.

Is that what your highschool textbooks tell you?
Statistical BS aside it would be extremely naive to believe we have the only planet with life on it.

 

[petros]

Life on Earth started in the oceans, when life left the ocean for land, it took the ocean with it.

All planets are habitable if life does what it did on earth and takes what it needs with it.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It's extremely naive to believe anything in a complete absence of data.

Life started in the oceans, when life left the ocean for land, it took the ocean with it.

All planets are habitable if life does what it did on earth and takes what it needs with it.

If..

 

[petros]

It's extremely naive to believe anything in a complete absence of data.



If..

Faith. Science requires plenty of it.

Man has already been living off planet since 2 November 2000 because we took what we needed with us.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Life on Earth started in the oceans, when life left the ocean for land, it took the ocean with it.

All planets are habitable if life does what it did on earth and takes what it needs with it.

Why don't we still seeing any of those processes happening in the oceans, now. The differences between the chemistries of inorganic material and the living are orders of maginitude of complexity. Even the simplest chemical reactions specific to living tissue do not spontaneously occur outside of it in the environment.

Life starting in the oceans is an assumption as is that there are habitable planets all over teeming with life. Could be ... No evidence to either.

 

[petros]

When it comes to crazy, unique chemistry look to hydrothermal vents. They haven't changed since the formation of Earth. That is where DNA keep leading to. Is it sure? Nope. Nothing is sure in the Universe.

 

[Bar Sinister]

According to the article it's at least 100 billion.

Right. And you have been to each one to check them out? Every exo-planet ever checked out has been found to be uninhabitable.

Are you sure about that?
.

Right now there is no proof of any other planet with life, so yes, I am sure.

 

[Hoid]

this research says there are 100 billion planets with the right sort of characteristics to potentially support life.

to suggest that we have somehow looked a whole bunch of planets and found them dead is ridiculous.

we are not even sure is some of the other planets in our own solar system might not have supported life in the past.

 

[Blackleaf]

Show us some real extraterrestrial life. A real picture ... a link to something real ...a description of what has been found. I'd like to believe that the Universe is teeming with life, too but until something else is actually found, it is theoretical only and mostly still Sci-Fi.

We're talking about habitable worlds, and Europa is a habitable world right on our doorstep.

I also think it'll be rather odd if Earth is the only place in the universe that has life.

There is statistical probability and if you were to find out what that was you would understand why it is virtually impossible for there not to be many many thousands of habitable worlds.

The only way Earth could be unique would be if there was a God running the show.

btw if someone believes that its fine with me.

The Drake Equattion.

 

[Curious Cdn]

When it comes to crazy, unique chemistry look to hydrothermal vents. They haven't changed since the formation of Earth. That is where DNA keep leading to. Is it sure? Nope. Nothing is sure in the Universe.

Another theoretical assumption. When we can see inorganic natter becoming organic matter around thermal vents. You will have proof. So far, it is still guess. Life might not have even originated on Earth.