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To: Post-Neolithic

Why would you think that EACH star would have a planet orbiting it?

As for those stars outside the solar system where planets HAVE been found, the vast majority of the planets have been massive gas giants. Not too compatible with life in anything resembling humanoid form.


38 posted on 01/24/2008 9:49:58 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression (Dime: a dollar with all the taxes taken out.)
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To: FreedomOfExpression

“Not too compatible with life in anything resembling humanoid form.”

What does humanoid form have to do with extraterrestrial life?


42 posted on 01/24/2008 9:57:09 AM PST by WoofDog123
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To: FreedomOfExpression

That’s only because gas giants are massive enough to cause observable wobbles that our limited optics can observe. I think we’ll find a predictable pattern where gas giants exist in outer orbits with more rocky oxygen/nitrogen planets in the inner orbits.


130 posted on 02/10/2008 7:00:47 AM PST by mdmathis6
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