Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 13:39:49 -0500 Message-ID: <5627DBF1.3DE@ix.netcom.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:39:45 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.astronomy,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity Subject: 1 billion or eight billion??? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.49.183.72 X-Trace: sv3-UlRA1qTT2DJ8UZqAbblLDuvRZVPjprFsebFrE7kQU6KqgkQVqdJu+T85r40BE01+IhqADgZ6iwuQu9u!8YGLLxZ1MvtyiWM4tvDT2nIBz216aZf58qwBtecPvtYJxrpnq7u1BWKXM/sfkSA1Po7w7D63jSvV!ZPjrZvs= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1839 Xref: csiph.com alt.astronomy:278260 rec.arts.sf.written:425080 sci.physics:527222 sci.physics.relativity:367731 "Based on the survey, the research pair theorizes there are 1 billion Earth-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy right now..." http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1021/Earth-isn-t-nearly-as-unique-as-we-may-think-says-new-study How many Mars-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy? How many Venus-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy? How many Pluto-sized worlds in the Milky Way galaxy? What a bunch of crooks with nothing to do... and it just the same stuff repeated over and over...how is this news? "Based on the survey, the research pair theorizes" What is a "research pair"? What this mean? http://www.nbcnews.com/science/8-8-billion-habitable-earth-size-planets-exist-milky-way-8C11529186 I bet a billion dollars none of these "researchers" know what an Earth looks like.