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60 billion alien planets could support life, study suggests
Fox News ^
 | 07/03/2013
 | Megan Gannon
Posted on 07/04/2013 4:55:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/04/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Though only about dozen potentially habitable exoplanets have been detected so far, scientists say the universe should be teeming with alien worlds that could support plant life. The Milky Way alone may host 60 billion such planets around faint red dwarf stars, a new estimate suggests.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Religion; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: habitability; life; planet; xplanets
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To: SeekAndFind
    Wrong. The actual number is 58,345.671,443.
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 4:59:10 PM PDT
by 
heights
 
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on 
07/04/2013 4:59:29 PM PDT
by 
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
 
To: heights
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:00:14 PM PDT
by 
heights
 
To: heights
    Mmmm, I think you forgot to carry the two.
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:00:43 PM PDT
by 
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
 
To: SeekAndFind
    60 billion? I’d like to be associated with just ONE planet that has intelligent life remaining.
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:01:19 PM PDT
by 
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
 
To: SeekAndFind
To: Safetgiver
    Flash went to one... 
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:05:48 PM PDT
by 
EEGator
 
To: SeekAndFind
    :Let’s build some Von Neumann probes and check it out.
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:06:57 PM PDT
by 
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
 
To: heights
    so many planets to send liberals to..
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:07:02 PM PDT
by 
max americana
(fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
 
To: SeekAndFind
    Good send all the leftists there and leave us the planet suffering from global warming and over population....
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:07:41 PM PDT
by 
The Mayor
(Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
 
To: SeekAndFind
    and 60 billion spaghetti monsters could fly out of Moocher’s a$$ over in Africa...
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:10:40 PM PDT
by 
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
 
To: Sirius Lee
    :Lets build some Von Neumann probes and check it out.
And then wonder why all we find are our own Von Neuman probes....
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:24:39 PM PDT
by 
GraceG
 
To: SeekAndFind
To: max americana
    The last society to do that died out from a plague spread by unwashed pay phones...
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:28:01 PM PDT
by 
null and void
(Republicans create the tools of oppression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
 
To: max americana
    Send ‘em in Generation Ships. . . but design them to only last ~5 generations. Between the Sacrament of Abortion, and the typical activity of liberal-approved “yutes”, I’d be surprised if they make **3** generations. . .
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:35:56 PM PDT
by 
Salgak
(http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com     100% all-natural snark !)
 
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
    Thanks SeekAndFind. Listmembers, be aware that I've not scanned this topic for the same old wheels turning in the same old ruts, i.o.w., the various anti-intellectual clichés that crop up on a lot of science and/or astronomy topics. 
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:38:51 PM PDT
by 
SunkenCiv
(McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
 
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:39:47 PM PDT
by 
kjam22
(my newest music video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7gNI9bWO3s)
 
To: max americana
     so many planets to send liberals to..  screw that. Round them up and shoot them into the sun. They've already screwed up this planet!
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:47:49 PM PDT
by 
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
 
To: SeekAndFind
    Y'MEAN THEY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN PLANETS ??!!!!?
SEND 'EM OFF !!!
 
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posted on 
07/04/2013 5:48:03 PM PDT
by 
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
 
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