One Hundred Billion Trillion Habitable Planets

Centauri Dreams ^ | 2/17/09

[LibWhacker]

One Hundred Billion Trillion

You've got to look to Creation to find numbers that exceed the numbers bandied about in the 'rats Great Stimulus Robbery of Ought-Eight and Nine.

[AbeKrieger]

It is sort of running an experiment in your refrigerator - turn it off and something will grow in there.

That's just an ill-thought out statement. There's no life in the fridge natively, and just the concept of manufactuing a fridge, plugging it in and turning it on does not mean mold will grow inside it. Someone had to drop in the leftover meatloaf.

[lgjhn23]

Great!!! When do we ship all the Marxist Rats to another planet???? The sooner, the better!!

[MahatmaGandu]

One Hundred Billion Trillion Habitable Planets

With 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 habitable planets is it too much for me to want to be the iron-fisted (yet benevolent) ruler of just one of them?

[NorCoGOP]

the number of Earth-like planets in the universe might be the same as the number of stars, a figure he pegged at one hundred billion trillion.

All populated with potential taxpayers? Great...their descendents can also help pay for Nobama's "trust me" spending fiasco....

Should only take...say one hundred billion trillion generations to recover....

[Joe 6-pack]

The mere presence of a refrigerator implies the presence of a refrigerator maker ;-)

[ClearCase_guy]

“If you have a habitable world and let it evolve for a few billion years then inevitably some sort of life will form on it,” said Dr Boss.

Awfully sloppy use of language for a scientist. A "habitable world" is not going to "evolve" for a few billion years prior to the formation of life. The whole question of How life starts is something science has not been able to address and which is outside the scope of Evolution (I've been told that about 10,000 times).

I don't like his cavalier use of "evolve" and I also hardly think that life will inevitably form out of nothing. We have no idea how that would happen.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...is it too much for me to want to be the iron-fisted (yet benevolent) ruler of just one of them?"

With that kind of ambition, you're more likely to be the recipient of a bunch of moons.

[gorush]

I don’t believe this conclusion and I’ve read quite a bit on the subject...but I’ve been wrong before.

[MahatmaGandu]

LOL!

[prismsinc]

Liberals just can’t stand the fact that there may be other living beings out there that AREN’T BEING TAXED, CONTROLLED OR FORCED INTO NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE!

[Red in Blue PA]

[prismsinc]

Liberals just can’t stand the fact that there may be other living beings out there that AREN’T BEING TAXED, CONTROLLED OR FORCED INTO NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE!

[oyez]

I think I rather be free to go pioneering myself. Even if we shipped off the rats, the stench would still be here. They probably couldn’t survive with out some one else’s pockets to reach into. Just think of the diseases they would take into a probably pristine environment.

[Retired Greyhound]

I’m hoping to become ruler of one of the all-female planets.

[gorush]

[D Rider]

Thats only 10exp23. They need more planets, and more time before they can expect us toe believe phrases like “a universe teeming with life.”

[count-your-change]

On the other hand, maybe no other inhabited planets.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Be careful what you wish for...

Or...

[mysterio]

It is sort of running an experiment in your refrigerator - turn it off and something will grow in there.

It has to be contaminated first. If the inside of your fridge is sterile, you can turn it off for 500,000 years and nothing will ever grow in there. So living organisms have to be introduced to the habitable planet by some means.