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To: backwoods-engineer
"Yes, there are many stars in our galaxy, but more than 99% of them are the wrong TYPE, or in the wrong PLACE, or of the wrong SIZE.

Yes but I only need to have 0.00000000002% of the star systems in the galaxy to be habitable for you to be wrong. This doesn't account for the possiblity of multiple planets in the same star system.

48 posted on 07/26/2010 7:12:27 PM PDT by gore_sux (Al Franken - Preferred by Minnesota Educated Somali Pirates and Suicide Bombers Everywhere)
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To: gore_sux
I was being charitable with 99%. Ward and Brownlee are much less so.

0.00000000002% is 2 parts in 10^13. But there are only 4 x 10^11 stars in the Milky Way. And spectral type G stars make up only 14.6% of the total, or about 58 million stars. But most of these are too young, too active, too close to the galactic core, or too metal-poor to have planets. So you have already whittled down the 10^11 stars in the Milky Way to perhaps a million.

I am saying (well, I learned it from Ward and Brownlee) that Earth is one in a million.

57 posted on 07/26/2010 7:31:14 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (There is no "common good" which minimizes or sacrifices the individual. --Walter Scott Hudson)
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