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- Brian48216, on 02/18/2008, -2/+43I can understand that the submitter mad a typo, but I sat there for the longest time thinking-
"In our solar system!? HOW COULD WE MISS THEM!?" - SwedishNinja, on 02/18/2008, -3/+41The real question:
Is there any oil on these planets and if so; When can we get some? - Mollymegan, on 02/18/2008, -0/+30One must remember, as the this article didn't consider, that a habitable zone can be found at greater distances from the sun than previously assumed. For example, Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is perhaps capable of having a warm core, capable of sustaining liquid water, based solely on friction caused by the gravitational pull between Jupiter and itself.
- sockpuppets, on 02/18/2008, -1/+20Yeah there's only billions of galaxies and trillions of planets in the universe, what are the chances?
- xMedic, on 02/18/2008, -5/+23Earth-like planets must be pretty common since we just happened to be living on one of them. Hmm...
- badqat, on 02/18/2008, -1/+17I can hear Carl Sagan from beyond the grave saying "bealyuns and bealyuns of stars, hundryd and hundryds of planets."
- sockpuppets, on 02/18/2008, -1/+16Nougat was also said to exist, said Earl Capman, chief scientist of intergalactic deliciousness.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -2/+16Yeah what are the chances of that!1
Could have been born in void.
Damn we're lucky. - ryan83189, on 02/18/2008, -2/+14mad a typo you say?
- nekochan, on 02/18/2008, -0/+12and a couple hundred years later, everyone wants to visit Space Australia.
- norman619, on 02/18/2008, -1/+12It always amazes me that people still expect life to favor the same conditions we have here on Earth.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -1/+10Oh My God, It's Full of Stars!
- rollem, on 02/18/2008, -1/+10The reason that most star systems with planets probably don't house a habitable planet is that the planets of interest are much harder to find than the gas giants that are so massive they significantly alter the movement of their star.
- solecize, on 02/18/2008, -3/+10hundreds of planets in our solar system??? wha?
- SwedishNinja, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6I hear it's got a rocky surface but a creamy, delicious core.
- mozartts, on 02/18/2008, -0/+6"Titan" is the largest moon of Saturn.
- Scrappy1850, on 02/18/2008, -5/+10the brief under the title says "solar system" not "galaxy"
- KazamaSmokers, on 02/18/2008, -1/+6Read the article again. The second half is about undiscovered planets - possibly hundreds - in our own solar system.
- bitterman316, on 02/18/2008, -0/+5Why are you burying him ?
Milky Way is our GALAXY, and our galaxy has up to 400 billion stars, and a star could have a solar system.
The Milky Way is not a Solar System. - eddy23170, on 02/18/2008, -1/+5i wish we could just stop fighting each other and go find out if these planets exist.......
****sigh********** - MtheoryX, on 02/18/2008, -1/+5Why are you people digging him down...it's true, the description is totally wrong.
It is basically saying that there are more planets like Earth in our Solar System that we thought. Which is pretty wrong, if you ask me. - pjr12345, on 02/18/2008, -1/+5We're alone... all alone... so alone... I feel lonely... I need a hug!
- KazamaSmokers, on 02/18/2008, -0/+4READ THE ARTICLE - it says there may be many planets at the far edges of our SOLAR SYSTEM. Out around the Oort Cloud.
- MtheoryX, on 02/18/2008, -0/+4I frequently "mad a typo"...when I'm so emotionally involved in something, I just punch at the keys violently. Two things are likely to occur: 1) A typo, or 2) A broken keyboard and bleeding knuckles.
Either way, I end up looking like an idiot...again. - sockpuppets, on 02/18/2008, -0/+4I buried him to remind him life is unfair and cruel.
- Logicexe, on 02/18/2008, -0/+4It would also be ignorant to assume that the earth isn't the only planet to harbor life. Of course, if I had to place a bet I would bet that life is widespread throughout the universe, but we can't just assume that there is life without actually having any evidence.
- makaimc, on 02/18/2008, -3/+6Finally, a way to get the Bush administration interested in space exploration.
- jamdogg, on 02/18/2008, -1/+4It would be far a greater anomaly if there WEREN'T any other planets like Earth out there. Statistically, given the sheer number of stars, it would be like saying "there's only one grain of sand on the beach".
- bitterman316, on 02/18/2008, -1/+4THE ZERG ARE COMING !
- norman619, on 02/18/2008, -1/+4Really? It's carbon based? Based on what? Basing what life out there should look like based on what we see here is a bit like the europeans saying all people on earth should be white becasue everyone here (Eurpope) is white. Earth is only one planet out of countless others. To think that the only way life can evolve is the earth way is another example of human arrogance. There is a great article in Sientific American you should read. It covers the problems we will have in trying to find life out there. Here's the link if you are curious:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=are-aliens-amo ... - Hartley1942, on 02/18/2008, -9/+12Milky Way is not a Solar system.
- acdcfanbill, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3You better heat it too, I hear space is cold.
- MtheoryX, on 02/18/2008, -1/+4Perhaps not, but I'm betting he read the submitter's description, while you did not.
- mathmanjeffy, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3Mistake. Not typo. I can't fathom how I would accidentally miss-key and wind up spelling "solar system" rather than "galaxy."
- MtheoryX, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3There's a pretty big difference between the Galaxy and our solar system. But hey, it's just words, right?
- Kythas, on 02/18/2008, -2/+5There's intelligent life on Earth?
- RonBurgundy76, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3You require more minerals.
- Totz83, on 02/18/2008, -3/+6It would be ignorant to assume that Earth is the only planet in the Milky Way that harbours life, intelligent or otherwise.
- inactive, on 02/18/2008, -0/+3Construct additional pylons.
- warriorscot, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2Slim on a small scale perhaps, but on a galaxy wide scale they are quite large and on a universe wide scale that the chances there is gets to the point where it would be insane if we were the only world to support intelligent life.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2If any of them are M-Class planets, they should at least have Roddenberrys.
- vengefuldrx, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2RIP Pluto 1930 - 2006
- Focher, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2No, the article specifically talks about the possible planets being in our solar system. Somewhere just beyond Pluto.
- nospinhere, on 02/18/2008, -1/+3James, how many stars do you think there are in our galaxy alone?
- Scrappy1850, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2except that the quote is taken from the article word for word except for switching out "Galaxy" for "solar system."
- TransmitThis, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2I'm sure the "Culture" is out there, with their Orbitals and GSV's and glanded drugs - the sooner they contact us the better
- dromni, on 02/18/2008, -2/+4Because those will be very far from the Sun, much beyond Pluto, and appear as specs of light in 'scopes. Techniques of automated, systematic detection will find those interesting "specs of light" along this century, though.
- vengefuldrx, on 02/18/2008, -0/+2RIP Pluto
1930-2006 - Logicexe, on 02/18/2008, -1/+3The problem is that neither you or I or anyone else really knows how likely life is to form in the universe. We're not sure yet how common habitable planets are yet, we don't know how likely it is that a habitable planet will develop life, how likely that life will evolve into multicellular life, intelligent multicellular life, technological multicellular intelligent life...
We just don't know how likely those things are. Earth like planets could be incredibly common, but they could also be so rare that there exists only one in the entire universe. I wouldn't bet on the latter though, especially considering this study. -
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