Opinions certainly seem to vary on this topic.
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To: PatrickHenry
Earth-like planets may be more rare than thought
Even then, the wobble is detectable only for giant planets, which are those about as big as Jupiter, the bloated ball of gas in our Solar System. It is not possible at present to detect planets as small as the Earth.
Doesn't this last sentence invalidate the premise of the article?
113 posted on
07/30/2004 3:47:22 PM PDT by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
To: PatrickHenry
"We could be alone in the Universe after all." There goes that Nature rag again, trying to ruin the "facts" that have already been decided on by the Science Gods.
116 posted on
07/30/2004 4:06:04 PM PDT by
cookcounty
(LBJ sent him to VN. Nixon expressed him home. And JfK's too dumb to tell them apart!)
To: PatrickHenry
135 posted on
07/30/2004 6:35:04 PM PDT by
Conservomax
(There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
To: PatrickHenry
If we could ever get past our arrogance we might find that there is much yet to be learned.
144 posted on
07/30/2004 10:01:38 PM PDT by
Old Professer
(There is no place in a rational world for mythical beings; we do not live in a rational world.)
To: PatrickHenry
Only then can we know how unusual we really are.?
167 posted on
08/02/2004 6:57:28 AM PDT by
AndrewC
(I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
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