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One In Five Sun-Like Stars May Have an Earth-Like Planet
The Bad Astronomer writes "A new study, looking at over 40,000 stars viewed by the Kepler spacecraft, indicates that 22% of stars like the Sun should have Earth-like planets orbiting them — planets that are similar in size to our home world and with a surface temperature hospitable for liquid water. There are some caveats (they don't include atmospheric issues like the greenhouse effect, which may reduce the overall number, or at cooler stars where there may be many more such planets) but their numbers indicate there could be several billion planets similar to Earth in the Milky Way alone."
There's a 78% chance we're not living on an earth-like planet. It does however support life. Are their models really that good?
and these aliens had thunderbolt hammer that were really nuclear weapons, and they flew around in vimanas which were really flying ships from a floating castle mothership, in order to interbreed with earth's primitive dwellers by taking human form.
I love Ancient Aliens. one of the best shows on TV. Watching them come up with their wild pseudoscience theories is like watching a monkey discover how a cigarette lighter works.
Our planet Earth was terraformed. BY ALIENS!!!!!
And we are but fertilizer...
which explains a lot of what I see on Fox News
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And the aliens tried to breed the most intelligent of various species to bolster the mental capacity to match theirs. The rejects they sent to work for the history channel.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Quick, update the Drake Equation results to 100%!
So much for intelligent life... on THIS planet.
Hey, I don't see you complaining about unsanitary telephones!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar