Originally Posted by PT
Interesting stuff, space is infinate so their is def other forms of life out their
well, not quite
apparently, the last measurement of the universe was along the lines of it being
at least 10x
83 light years across
now, if you consider that light travels 186,000 miles a
second
then you multiply that by the amount of seconds in a year to give you the distance traveld by light in one year, putting another 83 zero's behind it tends to give you a bit of a headache
(the answer is 31,536,000 seconds, but the calculater doesn't go any further than that so the computer says 5,865,696,000,000 miles so it's a lot to start with before you put 83 zero's behind it
)
but i also get a copy of the new scientist posted through the letterbox every week so perhaps some of the info in there is sinking in