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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: Bringbackthedraft
Well...you never know...
21 posted on 02/15/2009 8:21:53 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Aw man, just when I thought I was unique!


22 posted on 02/15/2009 8:22:33 PM PST by popdonnelly (I went to an Obama Townhall and threw away my crutches!)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

I believe it, instinctually. But when the BBC writes and say it is so, I begin to question my belief. I wonder how future articles will work global warming into this.


23 posted on 02/15/2009 8:22:34 PM PST by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Swell. Let’s move to another one and leave the Dems to screw up this one the rest of the way.


24 posted on 02/15/2009 8:24:31 PM PST by dr_who
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To: wgflyer
"I wonder how future articles will work global warming into this."

They already use Venus for a 'look, that could happen to us!'

25 posted on 02/15/2009 8:25:10 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( I've started to use 'I' again.)
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To: HoosierHawk

Monty Python always makes me smile. :)


26 posted on 02/15/2009 8:29:22 PM PST by divine_moment_of_facts
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To: Twinkie

Neat to think that all these worlds we are discovering are home to men still under direct guidance from God. Perhaps they have advanced so far that they do travel from place to place...with the exception of Earth. Maybe the Earth is forbidden to them because of the fall.


27 posted on 02/15/2009 8:30:55 PM PST by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Billions of planets. Give me funding to find them . . . Garbage hype.


28 posted on 02/15/2009 8:33:46 PM PST by aimhigh
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

: )


29 posted on 02/15/2009 8:38:51 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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To: aimhigh

“There’s billions and billions of stars in the galaxy”
Carl Sagan
“There’s billions and billions of dollars in the stimulus package”
B. Obama


30 posted on 02/15/2009 8:39:01 PM PST by Mr. Right Now
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Outpost
31 posted on 02/15/2009 8:40:59 PM PST by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: plain talk
God separated these planets and stars far apart for a reason. 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.

Aside from religous ideas, the mere distance would suggest we would never come into contact.

32 posted on 02/15/2009 8:45:01 PM PST by jbarntt (Tagline:optional, printed after your name on post): -30-)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

My theory is that there are/were lots of intelligent races. So why have we not found it—or had it found us? The answer is both where and when they are with respect to us. I agree with Arthur C. Clarke: every intelligent race either: a) becomes God-like (shaking off its physical form), b) destroys itself violently, c) peaks, becomes stagnant, and eventually degenerates back into the muck. I think the window where an intelligent race might be able and interested in communicating with another is very short: anywhere from 1K to 100K years. Given this, plus the distances involved, its very unlikely that one will actually find another.

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


33 posted on 02/15/2009 8:46:30 PM PST by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: dragnet2
It would seem only the arrogant, or possibly ignorant amongst us would suggest ...we are somehow the only planet to have life.

Until you ponder the improbability of even us being here.

34 posted on 02/15/2009 8:47:06 PM PST by BlueYonder
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To: LdSentinal
Yes, but will these aliens be tall, beautiful blonds with three breasts?

The third one is on the back... for dancing.

35 posted on 02/15/2009 8:48:24 PM PST by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: jbarntt
Aside from religous ideas, the mere distance would suggest we would never come into contact

Unless we can vastly increase the speed of our spaceships or they already have light speed capability.

36 posted on 02/15/2009 8:50:49 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus Reagan (What's the difference between the Prophet Mohammed and Charles Manson?)
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To: BlueYonder

LOL...No need to ponder, there are billions of us here.

In addition, if this one planet can have billions of us, not to mention trillions of other life forms, then it would seem to make it even more plausible that tens of billion of other earth like planets could harbor life as well.


37 posted on 02/15/2009 8:51:28 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: Bringbackthedraft

read “the rare earth”
by a couple of university of washington profs.
Also, do not thik there is a simple solutin to fermi’s paradox.


38 posted on 02/15/2009 8:58:22 PM PST by genghis
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To: KevinDavis
PING!!!


39 posted on 02/15/2009 9:00:04 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Since there are gazillions of planets, it is probable that somewhere out there, there is a planet whose geological features form a perfect likeness of Alfred E. Newman. In fact, it is a statistical near certainty. It would be pure arrogance to think that a planet that looks just like Alfred E. Newman doesn’t exist in this vast universe of ours.


40 posted on 02/15/2009 9:01:25 PM PST by Yardstick
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