Feeling small yet?
/johnny
of course there are! there has to be one for each mormon to be God of !
If there are any semi-tropical locations with a earth atmosphere ..beam me up!
Size of the Universe: It’s really, really big:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I
WOW! That is simply an AMAZING number!! Just think, if there were only 100 times that number of planets, there would be a planet for each and every dollar of the US Debt! And, what might be even MORE amazing, if you multiply the number of milky way planets by 500 times.... you have a planet for each and every dollar of US unfunded liabilites!
Now, can we get each and every one of those planets for fork over (or just tax them), like $10 so's we can pay it off?
pronounced “beeelions”, of course
Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein…
Hbr 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the WORLDS
Hbr 11:3 Through faith we understand that the WORLDS were framed by the word of God
Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.
The billions of WORLDS spinning through the billions of galaxies were not made in vain either!
They’re inhabited.
Billions and billions of them, but some people get paid to find more.
All those potential habitats for life and nobody has bothered to say hello. That’s the Fermi paradox.
Maybe we smell bad.
The more planets they find, the more miraculous our existence. All those millions of planets and not one are sending out radio waves proclaiming intelligent life.
Maybe we can send an ambassador to some of those planets to ask for some loans for our Federal debt.
I dispute their assessment:
1. Planets have been observed only near stars that are relatively close to us. We live in a part of the galaxy that is rather sparsely populated by stars.
2. In the center of the galaxy, and to a lesser extent in the spiral arms, the star density is considerably higher. Stars are much closer to each other, making planetary orbits less stable. The majority of the stars are located in these denser areas.
3. To the best of my knowledge, there are only a small handful of planets observed in double-star systems. This may be because they would be difficult to observe in a multiple-star system, but it may also be due to orbital instability in multiple star systems.
The assessment presented here is way too simplistic, and likely overestimates the number of planets by a significant amount.
They don't have a clue if these planets could support life. They only know the planets are there the "wobble" effect in the star created by the planet's gravitation effect. Thus, the general mass of the planet and it's distance from the star is all they know. Scientists have shown that there are at least 23 finely tuned conditions of the earth which are absolutely necessary to support life. This includes things like the exact composition of the atmosphere, the very narrow temperature range, gravitational forces on the surface, tilt of the axis, etc. etc. The probability of even 15 of these conditions all being present on any given planet are more than 10 to the -256 power against it. Such a large improbability is generally considered an impossibility.
When do they compile a list of every planet, named and described?
I think we need more computers and more telescopes...maybe a telescope on the far side of the moon.
So maybe we CAN each have our own planet.
160 billion planets in the Milky Way (and no intelligent life on any of them).
And 7 billion people on Earth and about half a dozen more in a tin can orbiting it.
3 planets found that are smaller than earth.
http://www.space.com/14201-smallest-alien-planets-kepler-telescope-aas219.html
none are remotely habitable but finding them at all is a big deal.