Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds

astroengine writes "Using data extrapolated from the early Kepler observations of 1,235 candidate exoplanets, mission scientists have placed an estimate on the number of alien worlds there are in our galaxy. There are thought to be 50 billion exoplanets, 500 million of which are probably orbiting within their stars' habitable zones."

There's no intelligent life close by

[davidwr]

Any truly intelligent life would've detected us and fled to another galaxy long ago.

My experience

[Sarten-X]

Based on my time in high school, I expect those 500 million habitable planets are all inviting each other to parties, picking each other for teams, and definitely getting laid. Earth is getting left out, and nobody has the heart to tell us.

Re:My experience

[jcwayne]

I think we should pass on getting laid for the time being thanks.

And with that immortal phrase, Slashdot was born.

Re:Error: 50 billion, but not in Milky Way

[Tumbleweed]

I started to read your comment, but then gave up when I realized you're really just meat that talks. Disgusting.