Are We Alone? Part II: Making The Case

So, from Part I, we learned that we have Planets, Dwarf Planets, and Trans-Neptunian Objects all relative to the Sun with the understanding that our SUN is in the center of our Solar System.  We also learned that our Solar System was about 7.5 Billion miles wide and how long it would take to cross our Solar System with a latest technology space ship or a space ship traveling at light speed, which was 12 years or 4.15 hours, respectively.

NOW...  let's get into the good stuff...  shall we?

Our Solar System lives inside the Milky Way Galaxy...  and, our Milky Way Galaxy contains about 100 BILLION SOLAR SYSTEMS...  so, just a quick and dirty analysis of the time it would take to cross our Milky Way Galaxy would be 1200 BILLION years if traveling by latest technology spaceship or 400.14 BILLION hours if traveling on a space ship at light speed.

WOW...  one might be thinking...   our Milky Way Galaxy is pretty FRIGGING BIG...  but, let me really boggle your mind by saying that OUR OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE has an estimated 125 BILLION Galaxies floating around in it...

125 times the size of our Milky Way Galaxy is the size of our observable universe...

Did you catch the word OBSERVABLE?

So, what does that mean?

That means that what I just described is only that part of our universe that our latest technology telescopes can see, including the HUBBLE telescope that has been sent into OUTER SPACE to help us look farther away...

It is estimated that our OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE which is comprised of 125 BILLION galaxies is only FOUR PERCENT (4%) of our total universe...  That means, that NINETY SIX PERCENT of our universe, we simply cannot see.

4%   Observed

96%  Unobserved

100%  Total Universe

This means that our total universe has about 24 X 125 = 3,000 Billion more Galaxies than we can see.  And, to add to this mind blowing awareness, our damn universe is still expanding and more solar systems and galaxies are being created all the time.

Thinking about this makes the mind hurt...

Thinking about this has nothing to do with going to work and getting a paycheck...

Thinking about this has nothing to do with my retirement...

Thinking about this is a waste of time...

BUT...  not if you are curious...  and, not if you want to teach yourself something new...  and, not if you are wondering if there is other life in the universe...   and, not if you believe in ALIENS that have visited earth in our past and are continuing to do in our present...   and, not if you think that ALIENS were here before and altered our DNA...   and, not if you think that this part of science is fascinating.