My favorite things about these new findings and studies from Auckland, Japan, Chile, or probes like Kepler, are that they are all agreeing the number or Earth like planets is probably around this same amount, somewhere in the tens of billions.

Knowing this information, there's no doubt in my mind we aren't the only intelligent life in this galaxy, and even cooler, there's some species out there that might have a billion years of intelligent society under it's belt. Look at what we've accomplished in the last 100 years, then think what we might have if we exist for a billion more...

And this is only about our own galaxy, let a lone the billions of other galaxies in the universe. All throughout history people always thought we were special, but then people like Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Hubble, and now these new scientists shattered that centrism. Every step of the way people like them are proving that we are extremely NOT special.

It's hard to believe that only 500 years ago the common agreement was that the Earth was the center of the universe...