We are alone

As science progresses, and more and more accurate models can be made of our splendid and ever so far stretching universe. Science is bringing out a rather strange and yet great perspective of our position in the milky-way. This isn't Fiction, nore cience-fiction, this is Real…

We are (most likely) alone in The Milky-Way.

'And why is that?'
The Universe isn't all that old, at least if we compare it to the average age of a sun like ours, (which is about 6 billion years) it is only a bit older then 2 sol-lifespans. The universe is only 13,7 billion years old. (note that the average star lives about 3 million years though, but so intense nothing can survive) If we imagine this to the age of our planet (4.54) Billion years. One can begin to wonder how marvelously old we really are, we have been here for a third of the time! All time that is!

Think about it, say we state that there really is intelligent life and we consider that our civilisation hasn't been as is for the last say 20000 years. that is still one two millionth of the age of the plannet, if we say that indeed there is somewhere else a planet like earth, with life on it, and intelligent life and assume that they have the same technology as we do. Because we know that is possible and thus likely. It isn't strange to assume they evolved say 300000 years before we did. that gives us a likelyness of 99,9998 percent. That is a reasonable assumption.
But say they did, and we assume that they travel the stars with our current technology and speed, and can start over again from a different planet, makeing new basis etc. Then by the time we would have came to evolve. And they would be as succesfull as we would (which seen a 300000 years of advance in technology isn't all unlikely) they would have populated half the Universe… So, Where are they?

Fact is, we don't know. None of the UFO sightings have been confirmed to be extra-terrestial, and it seems strange that all we discover about extra-terrestrials is found on our planet itself.

This puts us in a Dilemma, if statistically the chances are so incredibly high that we would have met them by now, if they were there. Why haven't we met them?…

Because we are special. Imagine that only very few stars live long enough in a tranquil environement to be able of creating a planet like earth. Even though we know life will be most likely abbundant. It took 3 billion years for earthlife to even evolve to multi cellular organisms. After that it went fast. Fact is if we assume this is how it goes with all life on all planets. (approximatly 4 billion years before any signs of intelligent life arrises)
The we really are alone.
Because we are a second generation sun, we need the implosion of a different previous star to create our elements of nature! Than that gas cloud must have been repressed etc. It will have taken at least 4 billion years before a planet like Earth could even be created!
Imagine, the creation of a planet takes just as long as the creation of intelligent life!

That makes up 9 billion years, of the only 13 of time we have.
And most stars (dwarfs) do not radiate enough heat to support life. and those too big burn everything. This makes something interesting. A sun like our own, in an environement like our on, in a galaxy like our own, considering the big bang theory, has a likelyhood of about 1/ (10^124) which is redicoulously low. (Roger Penrose)

It would be more likey for us to survive the blast of an atomic bomb while standing next to it, than to explain our presence in the universe.

However, we are here. And we seem to be alone, and we are not very likely to discover other life in the milky way.

We are alone.

And that brings up great responsibility, we will decide the laws and ethics not just of our little planet, but of our entire milkyway, we are the first that were given a chance to shape the milkyway to our hand. We, We are so lucky!

Re: We are alone

for how ever much we know - there is ten times
as much that we don't know and maybe never will.
But we can't know for sure that we are alone , no
matter how much data we have thus far.