Astronomers Estimate Milky Way May Have 100 Billion Alien Worlds 294
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."
Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
No tentacle monsters though, they will take all our womens!
This Universe Sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Why couldn't I be born to a universe with a less restrictive set of physical laws?!
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
No tentacle monsters though, they will take all our womens!
Only the Japanese ones.
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This Universe Sucks (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, the probability of you finding one of those just went from 1:50 billion to 1:100 billion.
Just a factor of 2? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:100 billion likely way too low (Score:5, Funny)
Drake equation++ (Score:2, Funny)
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!
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
You just want death by snu snu
Do you blame him? Without a partner, he's just having snu.
Re:Drake equation++ (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This Universe Sucks (Score:0, Funny)
This sort of LSD-laden bullshit is why the hippies accomplished a three-day music festival, new lows in hygiene, and nothing else.
Re:Like Pluto? (Score:5, Funny)
Disney sued them for copyright infringement. That's why they had to stop calling Pluto a planet.
Re:Sweet (Score:4, Funny)
No tentacle monsters though, they will take all our womens!
Only the Japanese ones.
I experience an alien world ever time I return from vacation, sushi or no.
Re:This Universe Sucks (Score:2, Funny)
the 1%-ers don't have to follows those laws. you should have been born with money, that's all.
Re:100 billion likely way too low (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:redundant (Score:5, Funny)
We are the 0.0000001%...
Re:Alien life would be quite different from Star T (Score:2, Funny)
Re:redundant (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:100 billion likely way too low (Score:5, Funny)
Re:redundant (Score:5, Funny)
aren't all worlds, not our own, alien?
Yea, so 100,000,000,001 is total.
640 Billion (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This Universe Sucks (Score:4, Funny)
Those who figure out how to avoid the physical laws are the 0.0001%-ers that don't need money.