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But it comes back to the number of chances. To wit, there's approximately 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the universe. We might be that one in a 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 shot where it all came together to create life but it's rather improbable. Almost certainly is other life out there.


That's just counting the visible universe. We have no idea how much farther it extends!

That said, most of the visible universe is now unreachable due to the ongoing expansion of the universe. And life somewhere unreachable, even in theory, is not of that much interest to me.




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