how small we really are

[Matty]

Well i'll use Professor Cox instead to the point i was making

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2809183/We-universe-Professor-Brian-Cox-says-alien-life-impossible-humanity-unique.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... nique.html</a>

You've got to stop doing this. GeorgeHannah is equally religious and does the same thing and neither of you understand why it is wrong.

I DON'T CARE WHAT OFF HAND COMMENTS SOME SCIENTIST MAKES.

Nobody cares what Einstein says, what Brian Cox says, what Isaac Newton says or what anybody else says.

Scientists aren't given authority like thta. Their authority comes from published articles showing the evidence. When you link me to one that Brian Cox has written then we can have a chat about the things he said and whether they hold merit. Just because he says something it doesn't make it any more or less true than your opinion

i agree hence, life on other planets is down to opinions, however the DATA we DO HAVE shows.........No Life across Billions of Planets and our own being very unique, that is fact....outside of that is just conjecture

What data do we have exactly that shows no life across billions of planets? All we can do is look at a lot of these things, from billions of miles away, and make judgements. We can't actively sample these planets, or visit them. Christ, we're discovering new species of animal on this planet every year, that we had never seen or known to exist before, so what makes you so certain we've determined that there's no life on billions of planets billions of miles away?

 

[TCIB]

Google "the drake equation".

Basically it is a rough formula to predict the amount of habitable planets in our galaxy.
The worst case scenario leaves us still with 10k habbitable planets, just in our galaxy remember!

 

[the blue panther]

It's incredible to think that:-

In this vast cosmos
Filled with billions of galaxies
Trillions of stars
And a million times more of planets
It's quite possible that we are the only 'intelligent' life form within our section
Of our particular galaxy
And that by sheer accidents of evolutionary fate
We have the great good fortune to live during a time
When football was being played and
We can all enjoy the privilige
Of watching Phil Jones

 

[tonea2003]

Google "the drake equation".

Basically it is a rough formula to predict the amount of habitable planets in our galaxy.
The worst case scenario leaves us still with 10k habbitable planets, just in our galaxy remember!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.seti.org/drakeequation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.seti.org/drakeequation</a>

 

[BlueHammer85]

It's incredible to think that:-

In this vast cosmos
Filled with billions of galaxies
Trillions of stars
And a million times more of planets
It's quite possible that we are the only 'intelligent' life form within our section
Of our particular galaxy
And that by sheer accidents of evolutionary fate
We have the great good fortune to live during a time
When football was being played and
We can all enjoy the privilige
Of watching Phil Jones

Elton John should record that

 

[Damocles]

i agree hence, life on other planets is down to opinions, however the DATA we DO HAVE shows.........No Life across Billions of Planets and our own being very unique, that is fact....outside of that is just conjecture

You've confused having data that shows no life and having no data at all.

We don't have any data concerning the habitability of planets. We don't even know if Mars or Venus contain life, let alone trillions of other planets

 

[Damocles]

Google "the drake equation".

Basically it is a rough formula to predict the amount of habitable planets in our galaxy.
The worst case scenario leaves us still with 10k habbitable planets, just in our galaxy remember!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.seti.org/drakeequation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.seti.org/drakeequation</a>

This is the important bit

Besides illuminating the factors involved in such a search, the Drake Equation is a simple, effective tool for stimulating intellectual curiosity about the universe around us, for helping us to understand that life as we know it is the end product of a natural, cosmic evolution, and for making us realize how much we are a part of that universe.

The Drake Equation is a thought experiment and nothing else. It isn't science, it isn't scientific and it doesn't claim to be.

People get confused because they see an equation and think it's somehow more scientific than saying "I think probability wise there must be other things around". It isn't.

 

[tonea2003]

Google "the drake equation".

Basically it is a rough formula to predict the amount of habitable planets in our galaxy.
The worst case scenario leaves us still with 10k habbitable planets, just in our galaxy remember!

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.seti.org/drakeequation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.seti.org/drakeequation</a>

This is the important bit

Besides illuminating the factors involved in such a search, the Drake Equation is a simple, effective tool for stimulating intellectual curiosity about the universe around us, for helping us to understand that life as we know it is the end product of a natural, cosmic evolution, and for making us realize how much we are a part of that universe.

The Drake Equation is a thought experiment and nothing else. It isn't science, it isn't scientific and it doesn't claim to be.

People get confused because they see an equation and think it's somehow more scientific than saying "I think probability wise there must be other things around". It isn't.

i assume because the last 4 parts of the equation are the imponderables thus far

in your opinion why would cox say what he did as opposed to drake and carl sagan for instance

 

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

And there's only us in all that universe..

What a ridiculously ignorant and stupid statement.

To label my statement stupid served only to prove you ignorant.

 

[TCIB]

The drake equation to me is just a posh way of saying "the law of averages".
As highlighted above by damo i think, it makes you wonder and ask questions about at least the variables involved.

On a similar topic i am going to imax to watch interstellar as a cam won't do it justice.