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Billions of Habitable Planets?

Posted by michael on from the every-one-of-them-filled-with-tribbles dept.

cbv writes: "MSNBC has an interesting article about new calculations by Charly Lineweaver and Daniel Grether, both of the University of New South Wales in Australia, which provides an interesting answer to the question on how many potentially habitable planets exist in our galaxy."

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  1. Re:Metrics... by Telastyn · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    a metric buttload is divisible by 10?

  2. Make it a religious quest by Lunar82 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Some have observed that the level of committment this would require of humanity would be like nothing ever seen before, and which would require devotion that has historically only been commanded by religious quests."

    That easy, make it a religious quest. Get someone like Bin
    Laden to declare a jihad against the aliens. This way we
    can explore the stars and get rid of the fanatics at the same time. Or maybe the Pope will declare a crusade. We haven't had one of those in a while.

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