45 New Nukes: How Much of a Difference Will They Make?

It's funny, people laugh at the thought of extraterrestrial life, yet if you understand the scale of the universe, it is virtually impossible that 100,000s or civilizations don't exist right now. They may not be close by enough to communicate with, but they are indisputably out there. People promote Ethanol as a solution where there isn't enough arable land in the world to produce 10% of our energy consumption today, meanwhile energy consumption is increasing exponentially.

There are many more examples where a persons inability to comprehend scale allows them to be misled by their "common sense". This article is a great example of why fission is most certainly not the answer.

Fusion is the answer, but we have to fund it, and that isn't happening right now.

"...yet if you understand the scale of the universe, it is virtually impossible that 100,000s or civilizations don't exist right now. They may not be close by enough to communicate with, but they are indisputably out there."

So lets say there are 5 Septillion planetary bodies in the universe, or is my scale still too small? Now multiple by whatever teeny tiny percentage you want and abra cadabra we just proved by probability the existence of enough ETs to make your head spin around the sun. Your task was so easy, I'm ashamed for ever having been an unbeliever.

You Wrote: "So lets say there are 5 Septillion planetary bodies in the universe, or is my scale still too small? Now multiple by whatever teeny tiny percentage you want and abra cadabra we just proved by probability the existence of enough ETs to make your head spin around the sun."

You said lets assume Five Septillion planetary bodies = 5 x 10²⁴ planetary bodies = 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planetary bodies

I believe you got your number above from the estimate of 5 planets/star * 10¹² stars /galaxy * 10¹² galaxies/universe (source)

Lets call it 10²² to be conservative. so if we truly are the only intelligent life in the universe, that would make the odds of intelligent life being found around any star in the universe 1/10²² (1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). HOW LUCKY WE ARE!!!

Do me a favor, pick up two dice and start rolling. Please roll snake-eyes (1 and 1) 10 times in a row. If you can do it I'll take back what I said. I think that's fair since it is 10,000,000 times easier to do that than for intelligent life to form on this planet, if you choose to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

You Wrote: "I'm ashamed for ever having been an unbeliever"

In all the vastness of space and time you chose to believe that we are the only life adept enough to wonder why. Only a man with eyes closed tightly shut could truly believe such a thing.

Its funny, you evolutionists laugh whenever someone comes along and discusses the origins of life in terms of probabilities, yet there is no need for debate on this issue because you've proved your case by probabilities based upon dearly held assumptions that you have come to by your interpretation of the "facts". Your scientific sensibilities amaze me. It must be nice to live up on the mountain.

What is an "Evolutionist"?

I understood everything up to 'Its funny...'

The Topic has nothing to do with planets and extra-terrestrials, or evolution either.

Just so others don't get off the actual topic.

Kind Regards....

What! A thread going off topic! Never!

Aha, I just located the Topic under which those earlier Posters thought they replied to: http://cr4.globalspec.com/blogentry/7163/Number-of-ET-Civilizations-In-Our-Galaxy-Is-37-964

Kind Regards....