THE
KNOWN UNIVERSE
By Bret Burquest
On a clear night, depending on your location and ability to
scan freely from horizon to horizon in all directions, the average person is
able to view approximately 3,000 stars with the naked eye.
On
Then the announcer added, with a smirk on his face, that
there were no sightings of little green men.
On
That's 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 known stars in the
universe. That's more than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the
entire Earth.
This is not the total number of stars in the universe --
it's the number within the range of present day telescopes. The true number
could be a zillion times higher.
There are nearly 7 billion people on this planet; that's 10
trillion known stars for every human being on Earth.
For every single person, there are 10,000,000,000,000 known
stars in the universe.
Each star could have multiple planets within their system,
just as we have multiple planets in our own solar system. Numerous planets have
already been discovered in the closer regions of space.
Plus, many theoretical physicists believe there are other
(parallel) universes and multiple unperceivable (parallel) dimensions as well,
all of which could possibly contain intelligent entities.
If only one out of every million known stars (solar systems)
has just one planet with intelligent life, there would be approximately 70,000,000,000,000,000
planets with intelligent life in our known universe.
To assume human beings on Planet Earth are the only
intelligent life-forms in the universe is preposterous.
In fact, to assume human beings are an intelligent life-form
is also preposterous.
He who smirks at the unknown is a fool.
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Quote for the Day – "Two things are infinite – the
universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about
the universe." Albert Einstein
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning
columnist and author of four novels. Contact bret@centurytel.net
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