'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way 334
Raphael Emportu writes "BBC news is reporting
that rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found.
New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems.
There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe.
Future studies of such worlds will radically alter our understanding of how planets are formed, they say."
Re:sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not so Rare Earth (Score:3, Funny)
Heh. This new information kinda blows a hole in that theory, huh?
TFA is confused... (Score:5, Funny)
How common were they before? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Drake Equation (Score:3, Funny)
How meny of them have stargates on them? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:can we make our minds up? (Score:5, Funny)
"Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a view that there are hundreds if not thousands of planets in our Solar System,"
The first release of Solaris was Solaris 2. This replaced SunOS 4.x. There were a number of Solaris 2.x point releases, with the last being Solaris 2.6. Solaris 7 was released in November, 1998, followed by Solaris 8 in 2000, Solaris 9 in 2002, and Solaris 10 in 2005.
Although Sun's marketing dept. sometimes comes up with fucked version numbering conventions, the progression is actually quite linear.
And all of them are ours (Score:4, Funny)
They played us for suckers! (Score:2, Funny)
Squid, cuttlefish, and other similarly baleful creatures are all members of the cephalopod family, characterized by HUGE EYES, BEAKS, INTELLIGENCE, and AMBITION. [qwantz.com]
Re:Well, it's nice to have a destination... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not so Rare Earth (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but His Spaghettiness is most forgiving. May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage forever. Hang on, that sounds a bit like icky things Japanese do with tentacles... oh second thoughts...
Re:Well, it's nice to have a destination... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sweet (Score:5, Funny)
By the way, it's "later", not "latter"
Re:No shit. (Score:1, Funny)
Yeah, no shit. Although the article limits itself to just our galaxy, why should we? To ignore the greater universe, and the trillions upon trillions of galaxies that exist in it, is just plain stupid.
Re:Well, it's nice to have a destination... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well, it's nice to have a destination... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not so Rare Earth (Score:2, Funny)
But an Intelligent Designer? Piffle! He just hung the drapes and painted the place. And the bastard didn't even let us select our own wallpaper.
Re:Well, it's nice to have a destination... (Score:3, Funny)
the wonder (Score:3, Funny)