Posted on 06/14/2007 7:44:22 PM PDT by KevinDavis
A month ago, there was news that washed over astrobiologists like high tide in the Bay of Fundy: the existence of a possibly habitable planet around the nearby star Gliese 581.
It was certainly one of the most encouraging discoveries in the whole planet-hunting enterprise. And it got me thinking about the big picture. In particular, how many such worlds are still beyond our telescopic ken, sequestered in the rarefied gloom of the cosmos?
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A hundred billion trillion. That is AWESOME! (And it’s also a hundred sextillion.)
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