[dragnet2]

A couple of years....18 years....OMG!!... That's a huge difference between a couple years and 18 whole years.... .....And we haven't found one yet???

This is nuts...Outrageous.....What is taking so damn long? We should have found one in the first couple of weeks!

At this rate it might take 40 years or maybe even 100 years to find an earth-like planet....I say we give up!

[backwoods-engineer]

This is nuts...Outrageous.....What is taking so damn long? We should have found one in the first couple of weeks! At this rate it might take 40 years or maybe even 100 years to find an earth-like planet....I say we give up!

That is an ignorant response. Read Ward and Brownlee's "Rare Earth", then we can talk.