Originally posted by fsu1jreed:
Actually the odds are not that great when you take into context the number of places in the universe where life could possibly arise. Check out this link on the Drake equation(). This is just for intelligent life in our Galaxy which we might come into contact with. If you scroll down you will see the very conservative number of N=0.0000002211. Which looks very small, but when you multiply it by the estimated number of galaxies(~400,000,000,000,000) then you get 88,440,000. That's a whole lot of civilizations out there. The odds are only exteremly small when you pick a specific planet/moon.
Cool, this was on that show last night. This board is making me more smarter.