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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:The BIG question by Scaba · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think only telelphone sanitizers, hairdressers and middle management will get to go, if I remember correctly.

  2. more than half by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 5, Funny
    The most remarkable fact from the article:
    We found that of all planets just reaching the dawn of their personal computing era, more than half of them have a whiney guy in glasses writing letters to magazines complaining about people not paying for his BASIC interpreter.
  3. How many? by Insightfill · · Score: 4, Funny



    ...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!

  4. Re:this is a WAG, nothing more, nothing less. by rho · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm more interested in that terrabyte of NZ sheep porn, myself...

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  5. Safety and Security. by Talinom · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    "Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
  6. Re:Metrics... by FrankDrebin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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