SpokenTruth said:
*sigh* You really aren't grasping the scope of the universe and you are using data from 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th of it to support your argument. Now, let's use your link first. "There could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs in the Milky Way." The Milky Way is just our galaxy. There are 2 trillion galaxies in just the observable universe. And a magnitude far great in the entire universe. That gives 80,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Earth-sized habitable planets in just the observable universe. Magnify that by an order of several million for the entire universe. Again, you are not grasping the scope of the universe. Next, the Kepler space missions is just looking for planets that are compatible for Human life. I've already told you life is far more likely to be found on a planet that is very unEarth-like. An icy planet. Hell, it may even be possible on the moon of Titan or Europa. When you remove the 'Goldilocks' requirement for Human life, the planet count that could have or had life goes up exponentially more. Pluto was not reclassified as a dwarf planet because we have a better observation of it. It was reclassified because we changed our working definition of a planet. Pluto simply fell into the classification of dwarf planet instead. If failed to pass one of the criteria for planet classification because it does not have enough gravity to clear its orbit of other smaller celestial bodies. If we called Pluto a planet, we'd have to call 200 other objects in or near the Kuiper belt planets too. |
How do you know exactly those galaxies have planets with sufficient resources to sustain life? We only have our data which came up with 40 billion supposed planets that can maintain life. Which will obviously decrease if we observe the planets better. If they are still considered planets that is. Second, we haven't found any aliens yet despite all the billions if not trillions of dollars that we spent observing space light years ahead of us and all the different type of planets there is. Not that it will disprove god, but shows how lucky we have to be if everything was up to chance. Finally, we were able to observe the fact that Pluto wasn't a typical planet because it didn't fit every property of a typical planet. Once we realize that there are other objects in space in Kuiper Belt that are similar to Pluto we were able to observe Pluto better and put it in perspective. Observing doesn't mean just directly looking at something. Sometimes we have to look at the full picture to observe something. For example, you have to observe the brain, heart, ect to know how an arm or leg works. So it proves scientists didn't observe everything correctly. And I bet there will be more major changes due to Scientists not knowing everything right now. Which is fine, because we as humans aren't perfect and admittingly we have spent a lot on our space program lately.
