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Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds
astroengine writes "Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that exist in our galaxy. They came up with at least 50 billion alien worlds. Today, astronomers from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., and the PLANET (Probing Lensing Anomalies NETwork) collaboration have taken their own stab at the 'galactic exo-planetary estimate' and think there are at least 100 billion worlds knocking around the Milky Way."
Then statistically tell me which planet has Amazonian Women, hot green chicks, and Galactic Girls Gone Wild.
No tentacle monsters though, they will take all our womens!
Why couldn't I be born to a universe with a less restrictive set of physical laws?!
50 billion here, 100 billion there. Pretty soon you're talking big numbers.
Fortunately, most of the Earth-like planets in the Milky Way seem to have stargates on them, so exploring those would be relatively easy.
I recently had the misfortune of meeting some extraterrestrial aliens from outer space right here on earth.
I have not much time now, but I'll jot down what I can.
They were very enthusiastic. They explained how wonderful it was to find a planet with the temperature and the water and the magnetic field and the life and the intelligence and the technology and ... advertising(!?) .
They we're an ancient species, homeless since eons. They had been scouring space, looking for intelligent life that could scratch their itch.
Their itch is having control. They get off on manipulation. They crave displays of advertising and propaganda, whatever moves masses to act against their own self-interest, or something.
They have evolved telepathy. It is the result of a million years of marketing, the art of lying, the pinnacle of manipulation.
I would describe them as psychopathic and sadistic. I think they want to enslave people for the joy of seeing a living, feeling life form manipulated.
They had me devising marketing campaigns. I escaped. Other ET:s helped me. I'll tell about it later. I'm too upset now to be very coherent, maybe.
I have to go now. I do not want to be anywhere near these creatures. Watch out for the mindfuckers!
(Or did I dream it?)
Disney sued them for copyright infringement. That's why they had to stop calling Pluto a planet.
It doesn't matter, in your lifetime.
To make a car analogy, for the Slashdot crowd; It is like a bunch of hot chicks driving cool cars, you know they exist, but you will never touch them. Just try to keep your basement tidy, since that is where you have to live. If a '61 'vette drives thru the storm doors, you might get lucky.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
We are the 0.0000001%...
And if you had tentacles your technology would only need to reach the stage where you can trap helpless human females.
I think he's trying to say that its not necessary to say alien worlds, just say worlds.
If you just say worlds you have to say a billion and one. That's two extra words.
Best car analogy ever.
aren't all worlds, not our own, alien?
Yea, so 100,000,000,001 is total.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Well, 640 billion should be enough for anybody...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!