From: Robin Lee Powell (rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org)
Date: Tue Jul 19 2005 - 15:47:21 MDT
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Phillip Huggan wrote:
> 10^11 and 10^11 are the figures for the # of stars and galaxies in
> the universe. Ignoring earlier 1st generation stars which tend to
> be very metal poor, and marginal brown dwarf star surfaces and
> radioactive asteroid cores, there are ten planets in each stellar
> system capable of facilitating the emergence of life.
Umm, what?
Last I checked, we had no idea whatsoever how many planets the
"average" stellar system has.
-Robin
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