Do you believe that life exist on other planets?

A typical galaxy such as ours has upwards of a trillion stars. There's upwards of a trillion galaxies in our universe. Based on planets found so far in nearby stars, one star out of a thousand is likely to harbor an Earth-like planet.

Let's revise the figures downwards, 100 billion stars in each of 100 billion galaxies, and odds of a Earth-like planet say 1 in a million stars. That's 10^11 * 10^11 * 10^-6 = 10^16 Earth-like planets. To argue that intelligent life only happened on THIS planet in THIS sun and NOWHERE else is arguing for something that happened with a probability of 1 in 10^16.

If a slot machine with 16 wheels, each with 10 pictures, were to play one every 3 seconds, it would take a billion YEARS for a likely occurrence of such a jackpot thing happening. So, because this seems such a statistically improbable thing, for many people this points to the existence of God, who has specifically blessed Earth alone with intelligent life. But far more likely is that Earth is not the only Earth-like planet in the entire universe that has intelligent life---that is, for intelligent life to arise in a Earth-like planet is considerably more likely than just 1 in 10^16.

I seem to recall that it wasn't that long ago that many people were denying that water can be found in any other planet, and specifically on Mars. Well, we have found water there. The real question is, how likely that we'll ever contact other intelligent life out there in any reasonable time frame, like centuries.

That I don't know, but it could unfortunately be very unlikely.

The chances that any life arises in any part of the universe is astronomical due to the fact that the conditions on the planets are usually too harsh for life to arise. The earth being in what we call a goldey locks zone gave the option of life forming. The chances that life forming on another planet would be extremely rare, and THEN..... for it to develop an intelligence that rivaled ours would be insane, and I believe this position is probably the same as most other scientists.

So, while possible, very unlikely.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.