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160 billion planets in the Milky Way?!
MSNBC ^ | January 11, 2012 | Alan Boyle

Posted on 01/11/2012 11:05:37 AM PST by presidio9

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1 posted on 01/11/2012 11:05:39 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Feeling small yet?


2 posted on 01/11/2012 11:08:51 AM PST by bolobaby
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To: presidio9
There's one number for the Drake equation.

/johnny

3 posted on 01/11/2012 11:10:02 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: presidio9

of course there are! there has to be one for each mormon to be God of !


4 posted on 01/11/2012 11:10:40 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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To: bolobaby

It’s a great big universe
And we’re all really puny
We’re just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney.
It’s big and black and inky
And we are small and dinky
It’s a big universe and we’re not.


5 posted on 01/11/2012 11:13:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: bolobaby

And an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the observable universe.


6 posted on 01/11/2012 11:15:39 AM PST by hc87
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To: presidio9

If there are any semi-tropical locations with a earth atmosphere ..beam me up!


7 posted on 01/11/2012 11:16:12 AM PST by Leep
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To: presidio9

Size of the Universe: It’s really, really big:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I


8 posted on 01/11/2012 11:19:44 AM PST by beaversmom
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160 billion planets in the Milky Way?!

WOW! That is simply an AMAZING number!! Just think, if there were only 100 times that number of planets, there would be a planet for each and every dollar of the US Debt! And, what might be even MORE amazing, if you multiply the number of milky way planets by 500 times.... you have a planet for each and every dollar of US unfunded liabilites!

Now, can we get each and every one of those planets for fork over (or just tax them), like $10 so's we can pay it off?

9 posted on 01/11/2012 11:20:18 AM PST by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy your votes")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“of course there are! there has to be one for each mormon to be God of !”

Oh, come on, man! That was uncalled for.

But, I imagine that one might need additional executive experience to take that big of a job.


10 posted on 01/11/2012 11:21:08 AM PST by trumandogz
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To: Leep

I’d like to beam up some leftists—but only if it’s like Alaska without the brief warm period.


11 posted on 01/11/2012 11:23:09 AM PST by beaversmom
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To: JRandomFreeper

Wow, that is a lot of planets, I would say the number of moons around gas giants would be even bigger in the galaxy.


12 posted on 01/11/2012 11:24:10 AM PST by GraceG
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To: presidio9

pronounced “beeelions”, of course


13 posted on 01/11/2012 11:24:10 AM PST by bigbob
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To: dfwgator

Ha! You’re one in a million, man!

Of course, statistically speaking, that means there’s somewhere near 7,000 like you just here on earth. And with 160 billion planets in the Milky Way and 170 billion galaxies out there...

Drat. I guess you are pretty darn commonplace, actually. Sorry about that.


14 posted on 01/11/2012 11:24:26 AM PST by bolobaby
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“160 billion planets in the Milky Way?!”

That’s interesting. The very first thing I thought of when I read this is that in the next debate, somebody should ask Romney which one he will be a god over. (Since he believes that God our Father and Jesus were both men just like himself - and BECAME gods.)

What we believe matters. It affects our world view. Our world view affects the decisions we make. I want a President who doesn’t believe he’s going to be god.

Scott
http://www.tableofwisdom.com


15 posted on 01/11/2012 11:25:29 AM PST by publius321
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"Okay. That means that..our whole solar system...could be, like...one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being......This is too much!.....That means..one tiny atom in my fingernail could be—"

"Could be one little...tiny universe"

"Can I buy some pot from you?"

16 posted on 01/11/2012 11:26:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: bigbob
"One Hundred and Sixty BEEEELLLION planets"

17 posted on 01/11/2012 11:27:22 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: presidio9

Jhn 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein…

Hbr 1:2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the WORLDS

Hbr 11:3 Through faith we understand that the WORLDS were framed by the word of God

Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else.

The billions of WORLDS spinning through the billions of galaxies were not made in vain either!

They’re inhabited.


18 posted on 01/11/2012 11:28:47 AM PST by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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To: presidio9

Billions and billions of them, but some people get paid to find more.


19 posted on 01/11/2012 11:29:08 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Leep
I just made this one the other day.

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20 posted on 01/11/2012 11:29:42 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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