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Interesting. I wonder how that impacts the Drake Equation.
1 posted on 03/22/2011 3:30:02 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
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Numbers are off. Drake Equation did not include enough factors. The authors of the article need to read Ward & Brownlee’s “Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe.”


2 posted on 03/22/2011 3:33:17 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
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To: OldDeckHand

Prove it: show me one.


3 posted on 03/22/2011 3:33:37 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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So is there a planet with just women out there?


4 posted on 03/22/2011 3:34:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Luke ScottWalker - The Force Is With You)
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NOW, if only we could find ourselves James T. Kirk and the warp drive on Enterprise, perhaps we could find them, that would just be dandy, wouldn’t it?


5 posted on 03/22/2011 3:34:15 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (I pity the fool - Mr. T)
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Eventually, we will get this one little radio message from beyond our world...and then...our entire vision of the universe will change overnight, and likely scare us to death.


7 posted on 03/22/2011 3:35:35 PM PDT by pepsionice
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Only 2-billion? I say there’s at least a Trillion. Prove me wrong!


9 posted on 03/22/2011 3:37:20 PM PDT by MaxMax
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I didn't read the article.

I wonder if they have the internet, ipod’s, video games, mini malls, mcdonalds, etc.. /sarc

14 posted on 03/22/2011 3:41:25 PM PDT by 80skid
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Perhaps God has a separate covenant with another species on a separate planet.

Who knows?

It has been said that our planet is perfectly situated in the galaxy (which itself if perfectly situated in the universe) to best observe the cosmos.


19 posted on 03/22/2011 3:53:38 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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I got mine. Now everybody back off.....unless you're hot.

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21 posted on 03/22/2011 3:55:23 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: OldDeckHand

We already have an alien as pResident.


26 posted on 03/22/2011 4:04:03 PM PDT by StormEye
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“The spacecraft does so by looking for the dimming that occurs when a world transits or moves in front of a star.”

So, this means that they must have statistics that indicate what percentage of stars have a planetary elliptic that is aligned properly with our star. Unless the elliptic is oriented edge-on with us, not a single ‘world’ orbiting that star would ever transit or move in front of that star (between us and the star).

hmmm....


29 posted on 03/22/2011 4:10:08 PM PDT by DigitalVideoDude (It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the credit. -Ronald Reagan)
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Are they where the 7 missing states are???


42 posted on 03/22/2011 4:34:01 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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Pinto: 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—

Professor Jennings: Could be one little...tiny universe

Pinto: Could l buy some pot from you?


53 posted on 03/22/2011 6:56:33 PM PDT by dfwgator
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