[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....

[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.

[gorush]

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

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[SolidRedState]

Planet 51

[Captain Rhino]

In 1950, while working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the physicist Enrico Fermi had a casual conversation while walking to lunch with colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller and Herbert York. The men lightly discussed a recent spate of UFO reports and an Alan Dunn cartoon facetiously blaming the disappearance of municipal trashcans on marauding aliens. They then had a more serious discussion regarding the chances of humans observing faster-than-light travel of some material object within the next ten years, which Teller put at one in a million, but Fermi put closer to one in ten. The conversation shifted to other subjects, until during lunch Fermi suddenly exclaimed, "Where are they?" (alternatively, "Where is everybody?") One participant recollects that Fermi then made a series of rapid calculations using estimated figures (Fermi was known for his ability to make good estimates from first principles and minimal data...) According to this account, he then concluded that Earth should have been visited long ago and many times over.

Fermi's Paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Where are they?

[agere_contra]

I don't want one of my refrigerators punished with life.

[Oldpuppymax]

One hundred billion trillion habitable planets...and the left had to pick THIS one!

[Norman Bates]

No one is out there.

[Snickering Hound]

[SampleMan]

The Dimocrats will immediately start a plan to begin taxing these planets. They will begin by promising that the tax will only be $1 per planet and WILL NEVER effect the poor.

[clamper1797]

One Hundred Billion Trillion

That number assumes that the universe is finite

[utherdoul]

Well come on lets get out and settle a few of them. I call Geidi Prime.