This Tiny World in a Massive Universe

The world as we know it is very small.  Sure, it may appear large to many people living here, but compare it to the rest of the Universe.  Did you know that you could fit 1300 Earths inside the planet Jupiter?  Jupiter is in fact the largest planet in our solar system.  But wait, there is a bigger planet than Jupiter.

In 2006, another planet was discovered in a far away Solar System in the constellation of Hercules.  It's actually 1.7 times bigger than Jupiter.  Impressive right?  How on Earth can a planet even amass that amount of size?  That's actually 70% larger than Jupiter.

As if that wasn't enough, Scientist believe they may have actually found a Ninth planet in out solar system.  This planet, currently dubbed Tyche, is in the outer reaches of the Ort Cloud that is in our own Solar system.  If the data is correct, this planet would dwarf even Jupiter.  Tyche, is said to be 4 times larger than Jupiter itself.  Still think this is a big planet you're on?  Ok, guess I need to do some more convencing.

It's estimated that there are about 2500 stars visible at any given time.  On top of that, 5800 - 8000 is the total number of visible stars.  If that's not impressive, Science estimates that there are about 200 billion - 400 billion total stars in out very own Milky Way Galaxy.  Continue?  Okay.

Recent studies have found that about 30 percent of stars actually have planets.  A lot more than the previous 7 percent.  This increases our odds of finding Earth Like planets.  Some solar systems may even contain multiple Earth Like planets.

The Hubble Space Telescope took a picture one day.  NASA, decided to zoom in on a spot out in space.   They held it there for ten days, letting the light come to them.  The end result?  An image that capture the light from almost 3000 Galaxies.  That's right.  Almost 3000.  In one little tiny spot in the sky.  So, what does this equal out to in ratio number?  How about a whopping 1/28,000,000.  For those of you that still have your minds spinning, that's about 1 out of 28 million spots in the sky to choose from.  Now, take that previous number of 3000 and multiply that by 28 million and you have a huge number.  On top of that, that's not catching every inch of space.  There are sections in between that would be missed.  Not to mention the sections beyond that.

Let's put that in retrospective.  If you took that 28 million and multiplied that by 3000, you'd come up with a grand total of 84 billion Galaxies.  That are in our current Universe.  Which means, if we took that 84 billion Galaxies and multiplied that by an average of 300 billion stars.  For those of you who want me to continue with the math, that's 25.2 sextillion stars.  In case you don't know what that is, it goes a little something like this, million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion.  That's a lot of stars.  And 30 percent of those, have planets?  That 30 percent equals out to about 7.56 sextillion stars that have planets.  And people think we are alone in the Universe.  Haha, good luck with that one.

Now, let me ask you a question.  If there is life on this planet.  Out of those unknown proportions of planets, what makes us think that there isn't life on other planets?  Some people refuse to acknowledge the possibility, but the evidence is over whelming.  To deny the fact that there might actually be life on other planets, is just stupid.  Plain stupid.  No other word to describe it.  Now, do you still feel that Earth is a big planet?