there are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support complex life, report a group of university astronomers in the journal Challenges.

They have developed a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other stars in the universe.
 
"This study does not indicate that complex life exists on that many planets. We're saying that there are planetary conditions that could support it. Origin of life questions are not addressed -- only the conditions to support life,"
 
 
http://www.sciencedaily.c...14/06/140609100725.htm

"Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!"
 

'Two possibilities exist; either we're alone in the universe, or we're not. Both are equally terrifying.''
 
- Arthur C. Clarke.

[Aliens are] always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.
- Alice Cooper
 

Yeah, but how many of them actually have aliens you would wanna screw?

I wonder if the aliens play music.. and how many tones in an octave they would use..

Human beings began to see flying saucers and alien life forms in great numbers when we started to think about flying to the moon and beyond. 100 million possible planets and somehow no one is advanced enough to be visiting us. What are the odds. Any scientists in here?

backwoods100 million possible planets and somehow no one is advanced enough to be visiting us. What are the odds. Any scientists in here?

Odds don't come into it.  we've only been creating radio signals for just over 100 years, so anyone further away than 100 light years, even if they have the technology to hear us AND they're actively looking for aliens, wouldn't even know we're here.
Assuming someone on a planet 100 light years away hears us as you're reading this AND they decide to come visit us AND they have lightspeed technology (the fastest we believe it is possible to travel) then you're looking at a minimum of 2114 before they get here.
Even if they hear us and immediately send a radio message to say "Hi folks,  your BouyTax is overdue and we're coming to collect..."  We won't receive the message until at least 2114.

If the Milky Way may bear 100 Million LGPs, I would start looking in Ursa and Major and Ursa Minor first.
(Groan.....)
 
 "And pray that there's intelligent life, somewhere up in space
Cause there's bugger all down here on earth"
 
JR

tomixornot
I wonder if the aliens play music.. and how many tones in an octave they would use..

Actually they do ... but saying anything in a place like this about "foreign music" and "experimental" and "alien" ideas is an oxymoron ... and no one believes it! Few people have an ear for something that does not conform to what you already KNOW!
 
Same thing in the ProgArchives place. Everyone is too damn stuck on their top ten to know the difference!
 
It's the same thing when we foreigners say something about different music's in our country and guys here (or PA) immediately say ... it's not rock'n'roll ... or ... it's not progressive! They still don't see it as "music". So that suggests that they wwould never understand, appreciate and be able to listen to something "alien".
 
As for golf ... never played it or hit an alien with it, so not too sure!