Hello and welcome to Something's Off with Andrew Heaton. I'm your host Andrew Heaton and the

interior of your car is so clean. How do you keep it that clean? Very tidy person. That's what I think. If you look up at the night sky on a clear evening, you can see about 2,000 stars. I can see about 2,500 because I eat a lot of carrots. You can see about 2,000.

That's just a fraction of the stars in our galaxy, which numbers somewhere between 100 billion and 400 billion.

Let's say there are 200 billion stars in our galaxy.

Now let's take a conservative estimate of how many of those might have sun-like Stars, and then take a fraction of those, just 1% that

might have life, and then just a fraction of those that might have intelligent life.

After taking a sliver of a

sliver of a conservative estimate of the amount of stars that have planets

were still left with 10,000 intelligent species that ought to inhabit our galaxy.

Now consider that our planet is relatively young and girlish,

a mere 4.5 billion years old, But as you get closer to the galactic core, stars and planets

get much older, upwards of 12 billion years old. So presumably if there is other intelligent

life in our galaxy, some of it is much, much older and more advanced than we are, even Canada.

And that begs a rather troubling question, doesn't it?

If there are 10,000 intelligent species in the galaxy and lots of them

are literally millions of years more advanced than us, how come none of them are

listening to my podcast?

Or if they are, how come they aren't leaving reviews?

To temporarily divorce me from this equation,

another question might be, why haven't aliens swung by Earth to say

hello and be neighborly? Or how come we're not picking up their awesome sitcoms by now? That

notion that if there are thousands upon thousands of aliens out there, why don't we know about them

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