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60 billion alien planets could support life, study suggests
Fox News ^ | 07/03/2013 | Megan Gannon

Posted on 07/04/2013 4:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 07/04/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Though only about dozen potentially habitable exoplanets have been detected so far, scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support plant life. The Milky Way alone may host 60 billion such planets around faint red dwarf stars, a new estimate suggests.


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TOPICS: Astronomy; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: habitability; life; planet; xplanets
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1 posted on 07/04/2013 4:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Wrong. The actual number is 58,345.671,443.


2 posted on 07/04/2013 4:59:10 PM PDT by heights
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To: SeekAndFind

Billions and billions.


3 posted on 07/04/2013 4:59:29 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: heights

No , needed :)


4 posted on 07/04/2013 5:00:14 PM PDT by heights
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To: heights

Mmmm, I think you forgot to carry the two.


5 posted on 07/04/2013 5:00:43 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: SeekAndFind

60 billion? I’d like to be associated with just ONE planet that has intelligent life remaining.


6 posted on 07/04/2013 5:01:19 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: SeekAndFind
There's been a claim recently that Jupiter and its largest moon Ganymede met that sort of description a few tens of thousands of years ago...
7 posted on 07/04/2013 5:03:51 PM PDT by varmintman
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To: Safetgiver
Flash went to one...
8 posted on 07/04/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SeekAndFind

:Let’s build some Von Neumann probes and check it out.


9 posted on 07/04/2013 5:06:57 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: heights

so many planets to send liberals to..


10 posted on 07/04/2013 5:07:02 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: SeekAndFind

Good send all the leftists there and leave us the planet suffering from global warming and over population....


11 posted on 07/04/2013 5:07:41 PM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: SeekAndFind

and 60 billion spaghetti monsters could fly out of Moocher’s a$$ over in Africa...


12 posted on 07/04/2013 5:10:40 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Sirius Lee

:Let’s build some Von Neumann probes and check it out.

And then wonder why all we find are our own Von Neuman probes....


13 posted on 07/04/2013 5:24:39 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: SeekAndFind

I am doubtful of this.


14 posted on 07/04/2013 5:26:25 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: max americana

The last society to do that died out from a plague spread by unwashed pay phones...


15 posted on 07/04/2013 5:28:01 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: max americana

Send ‘em in Generation Ships. . . but design them to only last ~5 generations. Between the Sacrament of Abortion, and the typical activity of liberal-approved “yutes”, I’d be surprised if they make **3** generations. . .


16 posted on 07/04/2013 5:35:56 PM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...

Thanks SeekAndFind. Listmembers, be aware that I've not scanned this topic for the same old wheels turning in the same old ruts, i.o.w., the various anti-intellectual clichés that crop up on a lot of science and/or astronomy topics.
 
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17 posted on 07/04/2013 5:38:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SeekAndFind

These guys have no idea.


18 posted on 07/04/2013 5:39:47 PM PDT by kjam22 (my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
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To: max americana
so many planets to send liberals to..

screw that. Round them up and shoot them into the sun. They've already screwed up this planet!

19 posted on 07/04/2013 5:47:49 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Y'MEAN THEY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN PLANETS ??!!!!?

SEND 'EM OFF !!!

20 posted on 07/04/2013 5:48:03 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
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