40 Billion Planets to Float your Boat.

[Lake X Kid]

Kepler Space Observatory launched in 2009, it began discovering planets.

Based on this data, scientists estimated that our galaxy contains around 40 billion Earth-like planets orbiting within the habitable zones of sun-like stars.

The habitable zone is the region around a star where liquid water can exist on a planet’s surface.

[skipping rocks]

The extreme amount of unknown, probably unimaginable things out there..........

What it looks like, is capable of........

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[David - WI]

That's 40 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy... times between 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the universe. We are not alone... although we may never meet anyone else out there either.

[Stoker boy]

That's 40 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy... times between 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the universe. We are not alone... although we may never meet anyone else out there either.

Do you think maybe we have been visited by a Cudarian.

[Mark Poole ModVP]

When you think about all of the things that made life here possible, the odds are still not favorable. The size and intensity of our sun, the position and influence of the moon. The position of the other planets in our system which has had a direct effect on this one. The speed of our orbit and rotation. Our axis tilt is why all things in nature reproduce and recycle. Not to mention that habitable zone is like threading a needle. Higher power at work here.

[AlliStan]

When you think about all of the things that made life here possible, the odds are still not favorable. The size and intensity of our sun, the position and influence of the moon. The position of the other planets in our system which has had a direct effect on this one. The speed of our orbit and rotation. Our axis tilt is why all things in nature reproduce and recycle. Not to mention that habitable zone is like threading a needle. Higher power at work here.

Yes, and His name is Jehovah, the Lord God Almighty.

[pcrussell50]

That's 40 billion potentially habitable planets in our galaxy... times between 100 and 200 billion galaxies in the universe. We are not alone... although we may never meet anyone else out there either.

True. And even our galaxy alone would still take 106,000 years to go from one side to the other… At the speed of light.

A little perspective on speed: The fastest thing man ever made is a solar probe that slingshotted around Venus several times to build up to a speed of just under 400,000 mph. At that speed it would take 180 Million years… (million with an M) just to cross our one little galaxy. Most of our spacecraft like the ones that go to Mars are less than 1/10 that fast. So think 2 Billion years (billion with a B), … Just. To. Cross. Our. Own. Galaxy.

God could have put humans on thousands of other planets in just our one little galaxy alone… and we would never know about each other.

Which says nothing of the 100-200 thousand million other galaxies out there.

-Peter