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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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To: backwoods-engineer
Many people that live here, on this planet, think they know it all...Some are religious, some are scientist, some are religious scientist, some are atheist....With all the religious types constantly arguing with each other, demanding their God is better or more holy...All trying to convince others to think and or believe what they do...

Humans are funny like that.

63 posted on 07/26/2010 7:51:24 PM PDT by dragnet2
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