What if the amount of stars in a galaxy relates to the number of
planets with intelligent life? That has good probability to be
reality. Our Milky Way has 2 billion stars,and I can say it has four
intelligent planets. Andomeda has 4 billion stars,and it has 8
intelligent planets. Since galaxies have so few intelligent life
planets,and our so big and the fastest life forms will ever travel is
73% of light speed the chance here in our galaxy,or even Andromeda
galaxy of finding each other are not very likely. Now
lets think real big so that intelligent life has a galaxy that gives
better odds of finding each other. We only have to think of the giant
elliptical galaxy M87 for it has a mass of 1.5 trillion stars,with lots
of global clusters. Yes the probability of life intelligent planets
just 6 LY away makes shaking hands possible. Bert