I like the Alpha centauri model as a good place to find a truly earthlike planet.
Awesome, It’ll coincide with me being able to take my flying car to leave the dying planet and it’s meltdown from global warming...
good, maybe we can move there and make a more conservative lifestyle the dems can have this polluted mess of a planet they’ve created.
Let’s get there before the libs do! : )
According to most astronomers, at least, real astronomers, there are only around 100 billion total stars in the Milky Way galaxy to start with - and not all of them are second-rate yellow stars, like our sun.
So there cannot be anywhere near 100 billion planets, much less Earth-like planets, in this galaxy!
The odds of life are not just dependent on size and location but also on chemical composition and whether the planet can maintain a magnetic field and stable orbit and rotation. Both Mars and Venus are “Earth-like” yet have no life.
Sounds good, well let’s see...We should be launching Tarp 8 or even 9 by then so it will be tricky, but manageable. Perhaps we could float some bonds through the esteemed Bank of Elbonia?
Will it have Global Warming? If not, it's not the same.
Let me be the first to say: no liberals or muslims allowed!
I’m going to put all the money I’m going to get from the Porkulus savings I’m about to receive on that they won’t find an “Earth like” planet in the next 3000 years.
A very large sum gamble, I know...
I'm greedier than you. I've fantasized about each state getting a solar system, and the United States (of the Milky Way?) covering a region of space. California would get a star system with several inhabited planets so that the various micro-cultures/regions could each get their own world.
After going through the 50 states (the District of Columbia/capital would be a space station or base on some uninhabitable rock), new star systems could be named for the original Amerindian, Inuit, and Native Hawaiian tribes which haven't yet been given state names. Those systems would be territories until they got enough people, and then they could become states.
Sounds like an excellent suggestion.
But all of us will be as old as dinosaur dung before they figure out a vehicle to transport us there.
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Or not.
The problem with that is that there is a lot more that made Earth a living planet then the Sun. After all, out of the nine planets (Yes, I know about Pluto.) there was only one of us. If a sun type star was all that was necessary for life there would be nine living planets. There are not.