Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previously thought (2016)

Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by piquadrat on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:59AM (#16069370)

@ASmallFiction had a beautiful, succinct take on this recently:

"Are we alone in the universe?" she asked.

"Yes," said the Oracle.

"So there's no other life out there?"

"There is. They're alone too."

https://twitter.com/ASmallFiction/status/946608733982822401

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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by dghughes on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:37PM (#16072809)

I like that it makes sense.

I'd say there certainly is life out in the Universse and it's quite possible there is intelligent life.

But the distances are so large that we will never meet any other intelligent life before our own civilization vanishes.

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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by zeristor on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:44AM (#16071158)

A nice way to think about it.

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Re:Observable Universe contains 10x more galaxies than previ... by cs1717p on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:18PM (#16072622)

While, of course, it is technically possible, it seems very reasonable to infer that we may be in a small window in which we haven't connected to other intelligent life. In just 100 years we have gone from being barely able to fly at all, to being close to becoming a multiplanetary lifeform.

The evidence becomes more and more every day that life is not a one in a trillion miracle but a natural product of certain environments. To assume we will never have contact with other lifeforms seems like a huge jump.

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