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Originally Posted by CLASSIFIED

I disagree

The Mathematical Probability Of Life On Other Earth-Like Planets

I see the universe as finite.

Yes the universe is finite. That's not a new concept. It's believe to only be 20% larger than we can actually view.

But that doesn't stop the fact that there are literally more stars in the sky than grains of sand in all the beaches of the world.
And it's become known that planetary objects orbiting stars tends to be the rule, over the exception. We're now finding planets around almost every star we look at. We've even found planets orbiting pulsars, something we previously did not believe could even be possible.

And as we're learning on earth, Life will find a way. Life can exist in conditions we once thought impossible. Conditions that are potentially present on Europa, in our very own solar system. Europa is contains a liquid ocean with a warm core due to it's gravatational interactions with Jupiter and it's siblings. This could potentially create the same conditions we find in our own Challenger Deep with the life forming around volcanic vents.

And even in a finite universe, it's still larger than anyone can wrap their minds around. There are so many stars out there the numbers become meaningless. (None of my calculators are powerful enough to come up with this number)
When you add in that maybe a tenth of all those stars have planets, with some of those planets having moons? That's centellions upon centillions upon centillions of chances for life to form.

So yes. It's out there. And it may even be as close as Jupiter. And no one's given up on finding fossils on Mars.