Zoom out and it's a lifeform itself, and you know that Earth will literally be a tiny part of its sphincter - it would explain so much.
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"There are more galaxies in the Universe than even Carl Sagan ever imagined"
- Thread starter Chrome Hyena
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Life formed here. Mathematical probability suggests it has to have formed elsewhere, even given all of the highly specific elements that needed to be just right for us.
And the ending quote:
There are more galaxies in the Universe than even Carl Sagan ever imagined
Forget billions and billions. When it comes to the number of galaxies in the Universe, both theorists' and observers' estimates are too low.bigthink.com
Basically our thoughts on how many galaxies are in the universe were extremely under counted. To learn it isn't hundreds of billions of galaxies, but possibly 20 TRILLION galaxies just in our observable portion of the universe is insane.
Not really all that unbelievable in the slightest. I always found it extremely odd too how in Infinity War/Endgame they gave such a low number, stating Thanos killed
"five trillion". Yeah, OK, if you really believe the universe was that small even with the original proposed size.
Imagine if every galaxy had just a single habitable planet with sentient and advanced life.
I've been getting into astronomy lately, the scale of it is just insane. I watched a video where they put our solar system to scale, the Earth was a marble and they had to drive like 7KM to get to neptune or something crazy like that.
That's just a solar system, there's billions of solar systems in a galaxy and there's trillions of galaxies. Even if we achieved light speed we couldn't get anywhere.
That's just a solar system, there's billions of solar systems in a galaxy and there's trillions of galaxies. Even if we achieved light speed we couldn't get anywhere.
Side note:
I just finished a game sesh where I'm nearing the end of Outer Wilds and my god my thoughts and emotions are just in existential mode rn.
Anyone ever slightly interested in astronomy i highly recommend this game.
i didn't mean to imply that.
The possibilities within one universe are now just unfathomable.
There's probably a Star Wars level galaxy out there right now.
I just finished a game sesh where I'm nearing the end of Outer Wilds and my god my thoughts and emotions are just in existential mode rn.
Anyone ever slightly interested in astronomy i highly recommend this game.
i didn't mean to imply that.
The possibilities within one universe are now just unfathomable.
There's probably a Star Wars level galaxy out there right now.
Are you sure about that?
If humanity can't even get along with itself, what do you think will happen when a more advanced species makes contact? Because that's likelier to happen first, than us making first contact with them in our lifetime.
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There are probably just as many Universes out there too. That's not counting multiverses. I believe in the stage 3 Super Ultraverse
Lol, humanity is trash.Are you sure about that?
If humanity can't even get along with itself, what do you think will happen when a more advanced race makes contact? Because that's likelier to happen first, than us making first contact with them in our lifetime.
That's what I was implying. Even if (and that's a big if) we were contacted by a more benevolent species, humanity being what it is would likely fuck it up in some aggressive way and lead us to war. But hey, at least we would be united for once right? If they are malevolent, then we're screwed anyway.
Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet
The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.
bigthink.com
TL;DR
That's what I was implying. Even if (and that's a big if) we were contacted by a more benevolent species, humanity being what it is would likely fuck it up in some aggressive way and lead us to war. But hey, at least we would be united for once right? If they are malevolent, then we're screwed anyway.
Dark Forest theory: A terrifying explanation of why we haven’t heard from aliens yet
The Fermi paradox asks us where all the aliens are if the cosmos should be filled with them. The Dark Forest theory says we should pray we never find them.
TL;DR
it's either that or just hide
Humanity might be the only advanced life in the galaxy or even more. We still don't know what causes nonlife to become life, just some of the conditions that could allow it. Till then, we really don't know the odds of life even existing, forget about getting multicellular life (which seems to have only happened once in the history of Earth).
People talk about the number of stars but if the odds are also very small, it doesn't mean much. Say there are 100 billion planets that are viable for life. If the odds of life forming at all is something like 1 in 1 million and the odds of that life becoming multicellular is 1 in 1 million, then that means there is a 1 in trillion chance of even having a multicellular life. I pulled these numbers out of my ass but my point is until we know the likelihood of these things, it's hard to estimate how many aliens there 'should' be
Not even that. For all purposes, we're so small, so insignificant, that we don't even reach the level of blip. We're just a bunch of nothing in a vast nothingness.
There's so much beauty in accepting that.