Milky Way's Center Packed with Black Holes

Space.com ^ | 1/12/05 | Robert Ray Britt

[RadioAstronomer]

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[foofoopowder]

So there are millions of "Earths", meaning planets which support life in various forms, some primative, some perhaps something like our own, and some millions of years advanced beyond our own.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So there are millions of "Earths", meaning planets which support life in various forms, some primative, some perhaps something like our own, and some millions of years advanced beyond our own.

Logically, how do you get to your conclusion?

[foofoopowder]

Briefly, we know there are billions (trillions?) of stars and our sun is just one of them. It is highly improbable that our sun is the only star to have a planet orbiting in a path which allows for living things in various forms and stages of development.

[Billthedrill]

Well, I figure there must be billions of other earths out there, holding millions of FR's with hundreds of thousands of Billthedrills posting. Would you want our initial contact with an alien civilization to be booger jokes?

I thought not.