# Obama says aliens are real---Huh? **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [February 15, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684 "2026-02-15T16:55:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 47
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [February 16, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684/47 "2026-02-16T12:32:06Z")
Folks … If anyone wants to get into a Drake equation / is there life out there debate, this other thread is a great one to read and add to. It got started almost 4 years ago and has had several good runs of thoughtful posts since, including one batch just a couple months ago. > [@Have we reached the point when it is kooky to not believe in massive amounts of intelligent life having evolved throughout the universe?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-we-reached-the-point-when-it-is-kooky-to-not-believe-in-massive-amounts-of-intelligent-life-having-evolved-throughout-the-universe/969972): > > Pre-Webb, We estimated there were hundreds of billions of visible galaxies out there, with each galaxy being made of hundreds of billions of stars and possibly trillions of wet rocks like our little planet earth here. To put such mind-boggling numbers into context: If we named planets after each of the 7 billion living humans today, you and me would each get several trillion solar systems bearing our name. Thousands of galaxies per person. exploding_head Since those numbers are still incompre… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-says-aliens-are-real-huh/1027684)._