9 out of 10 Americans Are Completely Wrong About These Mind Blowing Facts

7. That Aliens Exist

In a 2013 study by Public Policy Polling, only 29% of Americans claimed a belief that aliens exist. This is naturally a rather controversial subject, because technically, no one yet knows whether aliens do in fact exist or not (save for those who claim to have met them, often in gruesome, rather probing ways).

Yet given the enormity of the universe and the literally trillions of planets that exist, even the most skeptical mathematical equations of the odds of life developing on Earth and how that could apply to its likelihood of formation on other planets, the Rare Earth hypothesis, would still indicate that life likely exists on thousands of other planets; and that’s a skeptical model. It’s not surprising then that 98% of astronomers and biologists believe that alien life does exist.