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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. Metrics... by DrCode · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Can anyone tell me the difference between a 'metric buttload' and an 'Imperial buttload'? Thanks.