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Galaxy has 'billions of Earths
BBC ^ | 15 February 2009 | NS

Posted on 02/15/2009 7:53:31 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft

There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, a US conference has heard.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; exoplanet; space; spacecolonization; xplanets
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To: Yardstick

If we find one we need to name it 0bama.


41 posted on 02/15/2009 9:02:18 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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To: LdSentinal
Yes, but will these aliens be tall, beautiful blonds with three breasts?


42 posted on 02/15/2009 9:04:59 PM PST by JRios1968 (Sarah Palin is what Willis was talkin' about!)
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To: Richard Kimball

Even an asteroid will be insulted if you name it Obama.


43 posted on 02/15/2009 9:12:30 PM PST by max americana
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To: Bringbackthedraft

The original thought behind SETI was we’d point our “ears” in any direction and hear millions of civilizations speaking to each other... We put on our ears and ... nothing. In every direction. Nada. No one. Zip.


44 posted on 02/15/2009 9:13:40 PM PST by GOPJ (What's caused 19 deaths, makes travel difficult, and won't melt til April? Global Warming.FR:Dentist)
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To: wgflyer

I think the scientists who still think there billions and billions of civilizations out there are the same people who try to sell global warming.


45 posted on 02/15/2009 9:15:16 PM PST by GOPJ (What's caused 19 deaths, makes travel difficult, and won't melt til April? Global Warming.FR:Dentist)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Certainly at least one planet out of the one hundred billion Earth-like planets must be populated by beautiful Amazonian women. Spend more on NASA now!
46 posted on 02/15/2009 9:15:55 PM PST by NavyCanDo (You think you have enough guns, until the Zombies come.)
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To: rbg81

“BTW—I think humans will either take the b) or c) route.”

Tend to agree. It’ll be a close call whether the Humanists force c) or us or whether the Muslims get to b) first.


47 posted on 02/15/2009 9:35:41 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: GOPJ
Where do you get that? No one ever claimed that.

If you feel we are so special, and we are the only planet out of tens of hundreds of billions to harbor life, fine...But don't just make crap up like you have here.

48 posted on 02/16/2009 9:16:03 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being... This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be—

Could be one little tiny universe.

Could I buy some pot from you?


49 posted on 02/16/2009 9:21:22 AM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: GOPJ
In addition, no reputable scientist made that statement. You're just making this crap up as you go along.

What they are saying in the article, if you bother to read the article, is that the potential for earth like planets, ie: similar atmosphere's, distance from other similar stars as our own, water, etc etc is likely, which would suggest the chances for life to exist outside of earth would dramatically increase.

50 posted on 02/16/2009 9:32:40 AM PST by dragnet2
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To: colorcountry; Colofornian; Elsie; FastCoyote; svcw; Zakeet; SkyPilot; rightazrain; JRochelle; ...
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PING!

51 posted on 02/16/2009 1:54:48 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Google "Illinois' history of insatiable greed" for insight into what is coming our way.)
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To: greyfoxx39

LOL


52 posted on 02/16/2009 1:57:13 PM PST by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: plain talk; Bringbackthedraft
Based on how well we get along on this planet we probably would not want to come into contact with other civilizations. We could be exterminated.

What with the way things are going these days, the likelihood is that we'll do ourselves in long before we're capable of contacting life on other planets ala science fiction style.

53 posted on 02/16/2009 2:06:03 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

54 posted on 02/16/2009 2:09:26 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: greyfoxx39

Quakers with feathers ????

Oh, make that quackers with feathers...

Channeling Rosanna Rosanna-Dana...

“Never mind...”


55 posted on 02/16/2009 2:09:35 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Bringbackthedraft; greyfoxx39
Bovine Scatology.

Billions of Earths? Carbon based, with moon at the precise distance to keep the tides, at this temperature to sustain life, with planets in the solar system to keep it stable, with a core to create a magnetic field to deflect solar wind and radiation, and about 200,000 other factors? God created the Earth, and we should be grateful for every breath. Apparently, that is too much to ask from some. There is one Earth, and the odds of it being what it is speaks to a Devine Creator.

The Privileged Planet

56 posted on 02/16/2009 2:27:09 PM PST by SkyPilot
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To: dragnet2
I don't believe them. Scientists lost my respect when Al Gore talked them in to thinking "science" is based on how many people agree on reality. I'm just saying this sounds like the global warming idiots.
57 posted on 02/16/2009 2:58:44 PM PST by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will also lie against you.)
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To: dragnet2
In addition, no reputable scientist made that statement. You're just making this crap up as you go along.

It was Carl Sagan. In fact he said it so often it became a joke with people saying "billions and billions" the way he did. Pull up some of the stuff he said in the 60's and 70's - you'll see it.

58 posted on 02/16/2009 3:07:42 PM PST by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will also lie against you.)
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To: dragnet2
In addition, no reputable scientist made that statement. You're just making this crap up as you go along.

It was Carl Sagan. In fact he said it so often it became a joke with people saying "billions and billions" the way he did. Pull up some of the stuff he said in the 60's and 70's - you'll see it.

59 posted on 02/16/2009 3:08:16 PM PST by GOPJ (A person who will lie for you, will also lie against you.)
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To: GOPJ
Scientists lost my respect when Al Gore talked them in to thinking "science" is based on

All the petty arguments and beliefs going on down here on this tiny planet, have nothing to do with the real possibility that life exists in one form or another elsewhere in this universe.

All this article and others are saying is that recent discoveries of planets orbiting other stars, seem to indicate that there could possibly be tens of hundreds of billions of rocky, earth like planets, orbiting other star systems, similar to our own.

60 posted on 02/16/2009 3:11:53 PM PST by dragnet2
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