Posted on 09/12/2006 7:36:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis
To most common terrestrial dwellers, there's no place like Earth. But new simulations show that many Earth-like planets might exist outside of our solar system.
Through computer simulations scientists examined the formation and evolution of giant planet systems recently detected outside the Earth's solar system. Their results revealed that more than a third of them might contain planets that could potentially support life and could even be covered with deep oceans.
The study focuses on a type of planetary system unlike our solar system that contains gas giants known as "hot Jupiters" orbiting extremely close to their parent stars—even closer than Mercury to our sun, said lead author Sean Raymond, a researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
naturally. it's the only way they can explain away God.
No... there seems to be many other ways to do that.
So god only created Earth???
A warp truly worthy of the MSM.
INTREP - Predicts, but no objective evidence.
Marvelous for you. Says nothing about the facility of postulating that there are infinite numbers of planets as being a handy premise to shore up the crumbing argument for spontaneous, evolutionary origins.
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