https://padlet.com/patrick_winslow/gub4xst1phiu Made with magic en-us 2017-01-27 15:10:20 UTC 2017-01-30 15:52:37 UTC hello@padlet.com patrick_winslow https://padlet.com/patrick_winslow/gub4xst1phiu/wish/149899549 Today in class we watched a movie called contact. It is about the search for other intelligent life near us. There was a line in the movie that said "if just one out of a million stars had planets, and one out a million of those stars ha planets with life, and one out of a million of those stars had a planet with intelligent life, there would be millions of civilizations in our galaxy". This reminded me of the Fermi paradox that we learned about in class, that determines the probability of there being other intelligent life in our galaxy following those same steps.

Today in class we continued to watch the movie. It turns out, there was intellegant life residing near the star vega. It went over how it took 54 years for a message from earth to travel to the star vega and back. Vega is 27 light years away, and it took 27 years for something traveling at the speed of light to get there, and 27 years for it to get back.]]> 2017-01-27 15:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/patrick_winslow/gub4xst1phiu/wish/149899549