08 Mar 2014, 11:28 pm
Hi everyone. I'm new and I have ADHD and a best friend who is an Aspie. I love obsessive conversations myself, so to get to know you all better, i wanted to start a game.
The game goes as follows. I start by introducing a fun statistical fact or probability about the known universe. I cite the fact with an internet resource that others can look up, then i ask a followup question...
The first person to answer the question and back it up with a resource asks their own question. Preferably something they don't know, but really want to know. This question is then answered by the next person, who can ask a question of their own and so on.
I have a feeling this will be addictive, giving you an ego hit from answering someone else's question, then feeling acknowledged by the person who answers yours. Mwuhahahaha!
The rules are simple, cite your information with the most credible (internet) source you can find, be clear and concise with your followup question and be nice to fellow participants.
So, to begin, i quote an opening paragraph from an article in The Daily Galaxy - "The billion year technology gap: Implications for the search for extraterrestrial life (A Galaxy classic)"
"Are we the lone sentient life in the universe? So far, we have no evidence to the contrary, and yet the odds that not one single other planet has evolved intelligent life would appear, from a statistical standpoint, to be quite small. There are an estimated 250 billion (2.5 x 10¹¹ ) stars in the Milky Way alone, and over 70 sextillion (7 x 10²² ) in the visible universe, and many of them are surrounded by multiple planets."
My question is, what is the statistical probability that any given solar system may contain life? Okay 
