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1 posted on 02/20/2011 4:36:44 PM PST by KevinDavis
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2 posted on 02/20/2011 4:38:00 PM PST by KevinDavis (If you buy a car from GM, you are supporting Obama..)
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To serve man.

It’s a cook book!!!


6 posted on 02/20/2011 4:44:13 PM PST by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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"Save the Earth, it's where I keep all my stuff"

"Earth First! We can log the other planets later"

7 posted on 02/20/2011 4:45:20 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama. Chauncey Gardiner without the homburg.)
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Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope are working hard to find candidates for inhabitable planets.

My gosh! This is fantastic news!

Hopefully we'll throw gobs and gobs of taxpayer money at this.

9 posted on 02/20/2011 4:46:23 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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So far, it seems that for approximately every two stars in the galaxy, there is one possible planet,

"So far", "it seems", "possible". (sigh). Don't you just love the hard and fast concreteness of science. Oops. I mean, "science".

11 posted on 02/20/2011 4:49:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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Where might extraterrestrials live? The first step is figuring out what other planets out there have conditions like our own.

It always bugs me that they always assume that a planet has to be "like our own" to support life. If one is to assume that we evolved to thrive in the conditions that we have here, then one needs to assume that some other lifeform could just as easily evolve to thrive in any sort of conditions.

That said, I think we're the only ones around. If we did evolve out of random conditions, then there should be nearly an infinite number of other places where the same thing happened... and surely we would have found some evidence of that somewhere by now.

14 posted on 02/20/2011 4:54:36 PM PST by Cementjungle
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It’s pleasant until the aliens come to eat us. :)


25 posted on 02/20/2011 5:03:21 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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A whole lot of wasted space if it’s just us. I think the number is actually so high as to be mind-blowing.


29 posted on 02/20/2011 5:08:18 PM PST by JPG (As WI goes, so goes the nation. Thank you, Gov Walker.)
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And this helps us how????


47 posted on 02/20/2011 5:51:55 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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Chances are, Fermi was right.

But since faster than light travel is probably not possible outside of sci-fi, we'll never really know.

52 posted on 02/20/2011 6:25:59 PM PST by sphinx
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Luckily, those outlying planets are far enough away to have been spared reruns of “Dezi and Lucy”. Once they see those, we’ve had it!


56 posted on 02/20/2011 7:57:03 PM PST by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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Any class M worlds in 40 Eridani ???

Perhaps Leonard Nimoy knows ;)


57 posted on 02/20/2011 10:39:40 PM PST by ak267
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Interesting.....


63 posted on 02/21/2011 5:08:06 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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