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In reply to the discussion: New model predicts that we're probably the only advanced civilization... [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The Milky Way Galaxy may be 30,000 Parsecs or more long and an unknown number of Parsecs wide. From our position in the Orion Arm of the Galaxy, we can see maybe 20% of the rest of the Galaxy, if that. BTW, 1 Parsec is around 20 TRILLION miles.
As an engineer who does research and development, I know how new investigations are done, even when they are made using mathematical derivations, a person or team make a number of important assumptions, either one being wrong crashes the entire effort. Once assumptions are made and a derivation is done, an effort starts to try to prove or disprove the conclusions drawn from the derivation.
The possibility is that there is a far greater chance of there being other life, a lot of it, in the Milky Way Galaxy than the opposite. But I don't want to insult people's religious values, whatever people are lead to believe is ok with me, I assume personal experiences or insight led them to believe as they do. As long as they don't hurt other people, I am cool with them.