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Billions of Habitable Planets?
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."
I think only telelphone sanitizers, hairdressers and middle management will get to go, if I remember correctly.
From Douglas Adams...
Number of Planets in the Universe = infinity
Number of Populated Planets in the Universe = N
n
--------- = 0
infinity
...Billions and Billions...
</sagan voice>
Boy, I'll miss that guy! One of the many people who triggered lots of tech interest in me and made me who I am!
Thinking that Earth is the only inhabitable planet in the galaxy or even the universe is so last millenium.
;)
It doesn't take a genius (just a bit of open-mindedness) to figure out that in the vast reaches of just our own galaxy (not to mention the universe) the chances are good that additional systems similar to Sol were formed.
Remember: The absence of proof is not the proof of absence.
On a lighter note, I really hope they'd hurry up and colonize another planet. Then, next time some ecologist gets on my nerves by saying: "THINK OF THE PLANET!" I can retort: Sheesh, it's not like it's the only one we've got!".
And yes, I know I stole that from Futurama
I'm more interested in that terrabyte of NZ sheep porn, myself...
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
I don't care how many worlds there are in the Galaxy. I'm NOT going to wear a red shirt when I beam down to one of them.
"Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Read Nemesis (Isaac Asimov). BTW. by the time a large spaceship like that goes half way to the star we would have developed technologies allowing us to go back and forward to and from the star 100 times a day. Poor crew of that ship would have arrived to the star only to visit McDonald restaurant!
You can't handle the truth.
I will give you half of my share of the planets if you can tell me how to get there and back, safely and for a reasonable price.
Bush's education improvements were
Can anyone tell me the difference between a 'metric buttload' and an 'Imperial buttload'? Thanks.
I believe the imperial buttload is based on the size of Hing Henry V's rear end. Quite large, it was.
While the metric buttload is smaller, it scales nicely. For example, there are 10 metric buttloads in a metric shitload.
QED
Anybody want a peanut?
Bah.
The answer is easy, 42. It's nice you finally found the question.
Some have observed that the level of committment this would require of humanity would be like nothing ever seen before, and which would
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require devotion that has historically only been commanded by religious quests.
Fortunately, there's a "religion" with the right kind of funding to do so!
Who would ever think something good would come out of Scientology?