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To: DannyTN
So far, only one place has been discovered where conditions for life are present, and we are already living on it. Thus, there is not much cause for optimism that the universe is teeming with planets bathed in a primordial soup from which life might evolve.

Never mind that we are not yet able to detect a planet the size of the earth at a similar distance from a similar star, even if that star were as close as Alpha Centari, Epsilon Eridani or other very very nearby stars.

IOW, if we were near one of those nearby stars, we couldn't detect the earth!.

31 posted on 02/17/2005 3:52:06 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: El Gato
IOW, if we were near one of those nearby stars, we couldn't detect the earth!.

Other than by the copious radio frequency emissions, but even that method is only possible out to less than 100 light years, since we've not been putting out much of that stuff any longer than that.

35 posted on 02/17/2005 4:01:51 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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