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To: conservativecorner
I've heard this argument before and believe it is the exact inverse of playing the lottery: don't fight against billions and billions of stars

you cannot win such a bet. there is no doubt in my mind that there are MANY planets out there that will support life, and a fair sized subset of those will be very earthlike...

17 posted on 01/28/2003 12:26:51 PM PST by chilepepper
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To: chilepepper
there are MANY planets out there that will support life

Billions. They have to be rocky planets, otherwise it is unimportant whether they have a main sequence sun or any sun at all. But if you are seeking lifeforms of our level, complex animal/plant lifeforms, pickings are slim to none. Odds are there isn't another earthlike planet in this galaxy, nor in the visible universe out to 14 billion lightyears.

25 posted on 01/28/2003 1:37:56 PM PST by RightWhale
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