Re: OT: Extrasolar planets discovered directly
Think about it for a minute:
Assume there are 10 billion galaxies in the universe (a quite conservative estimate). Assume that each of those galaxies have 50 billion stars each (again, this would be an average since I've heard estimates that the Milky Way alone contains 100 to 500 billion stars).
If those figures were anywhere near correct, that would mean there are 500,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 5 x 10 to the 20th power.
Now assume that about 1/4 of all stars have at least one planet (not sure on this figure at all). That means there's 125,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe, with 12,500,000 in the Milky Way. Now assume that only 1/100th of one percent of those planets are inhabitable as we define it. That still leaves 1250 inhabitable planets in the galaxy.
And you say there's no habitable planets out there....anywhere!?!?
Remember that a lack of evidence does not constitute evidence itself.
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