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How many planets contain life?

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So far as we are aware, intelligent or otherwise, one. The earth.

However, it is likely that some form of life exists on potentially billions of planets in the universe, and odds are that some of them have developed intelligent life.

Billions of planets are out there. A tiny fraction may be similar enough to Earth to have generated life. A tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny number of those Earth-like planets that have generated life (one-celled creatures) MIGHT have life that has evolved up into walking, swimming or flying animals. A tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny number of THOSE planets may have life that has evolved into something that is is able to use tools, say, a sign of intelligence. (Higher intelligence comes from the 'accident' of the first pre-human to have opposable thumbs . . . that is, thumbs that can touch their fingerprints to the fineger prints of the other fingers.)

The number of planets that would have intelligent life similar to ours is infinitely small.

So . . . consider that 'life' may have evolved on other planets that are NOT based on carbon and oxygen. Perhaps there are creatures, for instance, that breath Methane, and are made of silicon. (Wild example, but . . . . )

At the moment, we still do not know if there is life on any of the other planets in our own Solar system! Mars could have some micro-life forms, and also some of the moons of Jupiter. Jupiter and the other gas giant planets in our Solar system could have created life in their hugely varied atmospheres, but if so, they would likely be nearly unrecognisable to Earth humans.

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I'd argue 0, but technically it's 1 if you want to count earth and humans as being intelligent. so there is 2 planets with life on mars

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So far, just one. They have found water on Mars which suggests that it's possible for life to exist there. But so far, no one else here but us.

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Only the Earth has confirmed to have life on it. It is unlikly that there is life on any other planet.

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Earth is the only planet known so far to contain life.

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