Re: Humanoid Aliens
Gold Barz wrote:Do you believe there are some humanoid aliens out there?
Let me preface this by stating the obvious so as to minimize the unnecessary replies questioning my ability to prove what I am stating. I am not stating a fact, a hypothesis, or a postulate. I am throwing into the fray a simple philosophical discussion as to humanoid type alien life. I would think that in philosophical forums one would not need to preface a message letting people know we are talking philosophically but it seems that maybe that is the case.
Also I'm not here to argue the likelihood of life on other planets. It defies any semblance of logic or reason to think that our planet is the only planet with life on it. My point is that since it is much more likely to assume that life has evolved on other planets that the humanoid form is not that uncommon.
In just our known universe there are wide ranging estimates between 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and 70,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe so it is not a far stretch to lowball an estimate of 1,000,000,000,000,000 planets in our known universe that are able to support habitable life of the possible 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in our known universe.
So as to hopefully rule out arguments with the numbers above which are very rough approximations lets low ball the estimate even more so instead of a more likely 1 quadrillion planets with habitable life we far under estimate the number to 1 trillion.
With 1 trillion habitable planets circling 1 trillion stars the number of them with a size similar to our planet and an orbit about the same as ours made up originally of very similar molecules and compounds could very easily be over 100,000-500,000 habitable planets very very similar to earth.
So lets low ball again and say that out of 70 Septillion stars in our known universe there are at least 250,000 habitable planets very similar to Earth. Of those 250,000 habitable planets I can see no reason not to assume that the changes in our evolutionary path that brought us to where we are today would not have occurred in at least one third to one half of them. That means that it is my personal OPINION that the least number of alien cultures that are humanoid like us is 80,000 different planets and the more likely number is probably much closer to a million.
The sad thing is that the evolution of our species has 2 outcomes.
A) We bond together as a species, overcome our current prejudices, salvage what's left of our environment and provide for continued evolution on this planet until such time as we venture far off into the stars in every direction so that when the eventual end of our planet happens when our sun goes Nova a long long long time from now our species continues. If that happens then very possibly before the end of our known universe we may just know how many other humanoid species there are.
B) We continue as a species as we are now looking at today and tomorrow but not 50, 500, or 5000 years from now and we deplete our resources and never achieve world peace and our species perishes when our planet no longer exists (or likely much much sooner) and all the greatness we have achieved goes to waste.
That's my cents
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