The fact that I can go outside and look at the stars to see back in time is absolutely preposterous, and somehow I still find time to worry about why my friend hasn’t called me back. There are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and around 20% of those are similar to our sun. That might seem like a small percentage, but when one does the math, that is about 40 billion stars similar to our own. 22% of these sun-like stars have Earth sized planets, which is 8 billion 800 million chances in our Milky Way galaxy for another Earth to exist. There could be 8 billion 800 million versions of me on other planets in our galaxy alone. As I delve deeper into the science, I begin to feel ridiculous about the small things I worry about and dwell on. I am an extremely small speck on the windshield that is the universe, which helps ground me and show me what I should be putting my energy
The fact that I can go outside and look at the stars to see back in time is absolutely preposterous, and somehow I still find time to worry about why my friend hasn’t called me back. There are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy alone, and around 20% of those are similar to our sun. That might seem like a small percentage, but when one does the math, that is about 40 billion stars similar to our own. 22% of these sun-like stars have Earth sized planets, which is 8 billion 800 million chances in our Milky Way galaxy for another Earth to exist. There could be 8 billion 800 million versions of me on other planets in our galaxy alone. As I delve deeper into the science, I begin to feel ridiculous about the small things I worry about and dwell on. I am an extremely small speck on the windshield that is the universe, which helps ground me and show me what I should be putting my energy