Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

2 - The War Of The Gods
of 100,000,000! And even if we assume that only one in ten of these
planets has a suitable atmosphere, we are still left with 10,000,000
planets with "putative" conditions for organic life.
Hans F. Ebel of Heidelberg University writes in his essay "Possible
Life on Alien Planets".
"Astronomers' estimates tend to accept the figure of inhabitable
earth-like planets in our Milky Way alone at hundreds of millions."
So my theory does not inevitably collapse for lack of sites for
launching ramps on earth-like planets. The hypertrophied opinion
which dominated our conception of the world until a few years ago
that the earth alone could support intelligent life has vanished from
even the most rigid academic circles. Tempi passati.
There is one other question mark.
Supposing that the universe does teem with planets and intelligent life,
might not all the forms of life 'on them have developed in quite
different directions from those taken by organic life on earth? If, in
addition to the tolerance allowed when making any high statistical
estimate, we assume that the beings who waged their cosmic war were
like humans, are we not being rather presumptuous? In fact, the most
recent research in many fields related to the subject confirms that
extra-terrestrial intelligences must have been like men. Atomic
structures and chemical reactions are the same everywhere in the
universe. And, according to Professor Heinz Haber:
"It is simply not true, as has often been imagined in the past, that the
phenomenon of life waits patiently until inanimate nature creates on a
planet conditions under which life can exist. It seems to be more likely
that life, with its extraordinary chemical activity, contributes
enormously to creating its own environment and can| transform a
planet in such a way that it capable of supporting life in all its