Scientists at the University of Nottingham have concluded that up to 36 ‘intelligent alien races’ are likely to inhabit earth’s galaxy. As The Sun reports:
Using the assumption that intelligent life develops on other planets in a similar way as it does on Earth, the research team obtained an estimate for the number of intelligent communicating civilisations within our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
They calculated that there could be more than 30 active communicating intelligent civilisations in our home Galaxy.
Astrophysics Professor Christopher Conselice, who led the research, said: “There should be at least a few dozen active civilisations in our Galaxy under the assumption that it takes five billion years for intelligent life to form on other planets, as on Earth…
First author Dr Tom Westby explained: “The classic method for estimating the number of intelligent civilisations relies on making guesses of values relating to life, whereby opinions about such matters vary quite substantially.
The stunning findings beg the question: are we truly alone in the Universe?
“Scientists Estimate Up To 36 ‘Intelligent Alien Races’ May Inhabit Earth’s Galaxy” Well, that lets the Democrats out.
I hope they are all white
With such a humongous galaxy, why not 360 intelligent civilizations. Some planets might have evolved 100 of millions of years ahead of us. As people are slowly starting to accept the fact that highly technical civilizations may actually have occupied our own Earth, before us, makes it totally logical that other civilizations would have evolved all over our galaxy, as well as the whole of Universe. I frankly believe that other civilizations elsewhere are advanced way ahead of us and have dumped all the troublemakers from all over the galaxy, here on Earth. Because, we may be intelligent according to certain measurable attributes, but we certainly are NOT very smart. Just look around you. I don’t need to explain. We are still in an infancy stage…
“Scientists Estimate Up To 36 ‘Intelligent Alien Races’ May Inhabit Earth’s Galaxy”
That’s good to hear because there’s no intelligent life on this planet.
Too funny….and a very good point you make if you listen to certain parties in the News Media right now. Love your sense of humor…with truth revealed.
Just folloowing the rules of statistical probability and chance, their stimate is actually several orders of magnitude low. Of course, the Trumpistas and right wing evangelicals will insist that there are no others except humans on Earth because it’s not in that great fantasy novel, the Bible. Actually it is, “I go now to be with my other children…”
What biased, leftist BS! Trump has resurrected NASA and space exploration From The ash heap of Obama’s neglect ,
Left: Oh, right. Well then he has wasted huge amounts of money reviving a useless agency.
Right: NASA has done so much basic science. They made airline travel safe and accessible to the masses among hundreds of other things.
Left: Then Trump is personally responsible for all Climate Change.
Right: That happened decades before he was POTUS?
Left: Yes, through Russian collusion.
Right: That was proven to have not happened with Trump, but did Happen with Biden?
Left: Trump probably traveled back in time to plant that evidence.
Cuckoo!
WHEN IT COME TO OUTER SPACE EVERYTHING IS NOTHING BUT PURE SPECULATIONS.THERE IS NO PROOF OF ANYTHING.
Why 36 ???? Why not 35 or 37?????
The SWAG (scientific wild-ass guess), is that there are between 100 and 400 billion (that’s billion with a b) stars in our galaxy (The Milky Way) alone.
If one star in a million has a planetary system, that could be up to 400,000 stars with planets. 40,000 of those planets (10%) might be in the “Goldilocks Zone,” where everything is just right to support life as we know it. (liquid water, nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, etc.)
So that leaves 4.000 planets, with species whose intellect would make us appear to be insects by comparison, to other species just coming out of the Stone Age, to whom we would appear to be gods.
36 Intelligent races? I think not. I think the number is much higher, and as a semi-religious person, I find it difficult to conceive, that God in His wisdom, would confine intelligent life, to one insignificant grain of sand, in this vast galaxy, or this greater than vast universe.
Do not try to add intelligence to this totally BS heading for an article. It is just like they say they know what is in the center of the Earth…and the deepest well or intrusion is only 42,000 ft. Much of science has become political science or anti-God science. Some day we will know…and it may not be far off. Your hypothesis is very good…and you make some very good points sir. Chemi
We don’t have an a wholly intelligent species on Earth so how was this guess determined?
They borrowed Dr. Fauci’s “Magic Coin” he flips to forecast what’s going on in the Covid-19 sphere. Their “guestimate” will probably be just a accurate. 😊
I think my neighbor is one.
As they’re not communicating with us (publicly at least) does that mean we’re not an intelligent civilization? 😉
By the way, I believe we’re a technologically advanced people playing with fire; being far closer to the cave than a truly advanced civilized civilization.
Your point is well taken…I have seen many space craft while driving and even from my yard near NASA facilities in Mississippi. “They are here”…and if they wanted us dead we would be. My dad ran the incredible lab for NASA at the Stennis Space Flight Center north of Bay St. Louis…they were always weird objects flying around….or hanging for hours in the middle of the night. It was like an alien light show, Hollywood style. They were really not hiding…