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Are We Alone in the Universe?

Posted by michael on from the lonely-out-there dept.

cynic10508 writes "CNN is running a story about how ours might be a unique solar system. Of the 100+ systems currently known to contain planets, all contain seemingly only gas giants. However, this may be a case of current technology and techniques being unable to detect planets similar to Earth." There are also BBC and Space.com stories.

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  1. Probablility... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yeah, seems the odds of an Earthlike system are so remote that this one probably doesn't really exist and we're all dreaming it while drifting through the clouds of a gas giant. Hm.. I should start a religion based upon this and then sue anyone who threatens to reveal my trade secrets.

    Nah, been done before....

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. Re:And if we are alone? by flibuste · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The best proof that there is intelligent life outthere is that they haven't tried to contact us"
    Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes)

  3. Re:We/they may be better off alone for now by jyoull · · Score: 5, Funny

    all those o's reminded me of gooooogle. can we google the universe for life?