The number of extrasolar planets exceeds 200, and discoveries arrive at the approximate average rate of once a week. They won't hit "thousands" by the end of 2006; and I'd have to check, but I think they'd already hit a hundred by June of 2005, when the prediction was supposedly made. So far, there have been no discoveries of extrasolar planets the size of Earth, although there have been some described as "super-Earths"; that merely means that they're a bunch bigger than Earth, yet smaller than our Solar System's gas giants.
1 posted on
09/29/2006 11:55:41 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; mikrofon
for comic relief. Have a great weekend!
2 posted on
09/29/2006 11:56:48 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Hold on... I'm getting a vision...
I predict... in the future... there will be more.... boneheaded "psychics" spouting brain-dead obvious "predictions"...
To: SunkenCiv
I predicted I would post on this thread....
4 posted on
09/30/2006 12:08:29 AM PDT by
Dallas59
(Muslims Are Only Guests In Western Countries)
To: Salamander
10 posted on
09/30/2006 8:55:21 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: Question Liberal Authority; Dallas59
:') I predict Ted Kennedy won't run for reelection to the Senate in 2012 -- either he'll be dead, or too sick to run. And despite that, he'll still be Exhibit A in the case in favor of term limits.
11 posted on
09/30/2006 9:42:57 AM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Hey Jeffry, I predict you're wrong
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