More possibly inhabitable planets discovered

Interesting post, thanks.

 

Getting there is the problem. Faster than light travel is just not possible with our current development.

 

Pretty interesting

 

Using the Drake Equation Calculator with these new numbers, I come up with 80 planets in our galaxy that could support intelligent life. And that's conservative.

N = R^{\ast} \times f_p \times n_e \times f_{\ell} \times f_i \times f_c \times L \!

where:

N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible;

and

R* = the average rate of star formation per year in our galaxy (aggregate)- 200 billion
fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets- 20%
ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets- 1
fℓ = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop life at some point- 20%
fi = the fraction of the above that actually go on to develop intelligent life- 10%
fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space- 10%
L = the length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space- 1/1,000,000th (10,000 years)

N= 80

http://www.classbrain.com/artmovies/publish/article_50.shtml

 

After seeing what man has done to this planet lets hope we don't get the chance to ever ruin another

 

Toss enough crap at the wall, something is bound to stick. This is why I'm convinced the world and the universe wasn't "designed".

Eighty planets out of billions is still quite a lot. Now multiply that by however many galaxies there are out there. Now include multiple universes.

 

We haven't done a ###### thig to this planet!

For all of the whining about the damage that we have supposedly done there is not much evidence to support it.

Look at the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...They're trying to clean up the oil and they can't seem to find much of it because it's being broken down faster than they can search for it.

Look at the Gulf of Alaska and the Exxon Valdez "disaster" They (the so called experts) said at the time that the area would not recover for thousands of years and within a couple of years you could find no evidence of the spill.

Global warming has pretty much been debunked as a fraud and yet we still have whiners claiming that we're ruining the planet!


Give me a ######' break!

 

I start driving solo here on planet Earth in a few days. Maybe y'all should check out some of these other planets.....for safety sake!

 

Why?



You'll be going slow enough that you won't be able to hurt anything.