- An astronomer has calculated what he believes are the odds that life exists elsewhere in the universe, and they’re quite favorable.
- Based on his calculations, David Kipping of Columbia University says the odds of some form of extraterrestrial life are around 9:1 in favor.
- The odds of intelligent life, while still favorable, are lower at 3:2.
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Do you think aliens exist? It’s a question we’ve all asked ourselves, and generally speaking, I think the majority of people think there’s something out there, even if none of us really know what it is. Scientists would love to find the answer, of course, but while they wait for E.T. to crash-land on their doorstep they’ve crunched the numbers to see how likely it is that aliens are even out there.
In a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, lays out the hard and not-so-hard data.
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