Scientists think stars pass through our solar system every so often. No idea how often.

The most recent was the Scholz star ~50,000-70,000 years ago. Scientists think, at its closest it was 52,000 astronomical units away. An astronomical unit or 'AU' is the distance between the Earth and our Sun.

At its closest the Scholz star was 4,833,702,000,000 miles away, or roughly 0.82 light years away.

Also, the Gliese 710 star is expected to only be 14,000 AUs away at its closest to us. That's 1,301,381,000,000 miles, or roughly 0.22 light years away. This won't happen for another 1.2 million years though.

It's not impossible for life to meet

Scientist didn't say there's 36 alien civilizations

He came up with a formula that roughly estimates how many habitats have been able to sustain life for extreme lengths of time. It's a pretty cool calculation but the author themselves doesn't think it's accurate, they specifically say this is simply the most accurate formula they can come up with now and hopefully it will be improved upon over time as we learn more about the building blocks of life.

"The Scientist: 200 pages of nerd s***"
"The News: ALIENS!"
"The Public: Scientists are stupid"

you think when we die we will wake up in a new body on some random planet? and have an entire new world to get adjusted to? maybe better, maybe way worse? reincarnation but not exclusive to earth?

AYYY F***ING LMAO

Anyone remember that futurama episode where Fry knocks the sitcom off the air and it takes 1000 years for the signal to reach the aliens 😂😂