That no intelligent life exists within our Milky Way Galaxy? I can't.
Estimates for the number of potentially habitable planets in the Milky Way range from 300 million to 60 billion:
A 2020 study published in The Astronomical Journal used data from NASA's Kepler space telescope and the European Space Agency's Gaia mission to estimate that at least 300 million planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun could be habitable. The study considered a planet's atmosphere and how much light it needs to support liquid water on its surface. Some of these planets could be within 30 light-years of our Sun.The observable universe contains as many as an estimated 2 trillion galaxies
and, overall, as many as an estimated 10 24 stars – more stars (and, potentially, Earth-like planets) than all the grains of beach sand on planet Earth.
Whether you believe in a Creator or not, modern observations with sophisticated telescopes continue to add to our knowledge of the observable Universe.
I once wrote about an imaginary city called Kinkatopia. Now, I am wondering how many of these liveable planets have a "kinkasphere."
