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I understood it to mean only 50 life-sustaining planets could be found in one light year's volume of space. I didn't make any assertion about life existing anywhere else, other than earth. I did observe that it was odd that the whole world was staying off the alien hotline radio frequency, but...

Well the explanation was that 50 life habitable planets were located in one light year, 6 trillion miles. So I was making the point that SETI, etc. have been listening for 50 years, a much larger sample. And the best signal ever received, the WOW! signal, occurred more than 40 years ago. If...

A boundary might not be currently measurable bit that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. Seems we're able to speculate on what is beyond the visible universe... except for its edge. If a galaxy to the left is moving away at X speed and one to our right at 2X, then the center is towards the...

The difficultly in explaining implies incoherence. Why must the universe include all? Why can't it have a boundary? What if different speeds were being miscalculated as distance? How can we be sure of what other galaxies see? Why have we found no other life like our own? The existence of...