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	40,000 'planets' home to aliens!

Babe_ORiley

2-5-2009 6:09 AM

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alien, extra-terrestrial, planets, solar system

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2-5-2009 6:24 AM

tabsey

It is the only scientific guess available, so it probably is the most accurate.
Good clip.

2-6-2009 10:09 PM

tanyamm

If there is life on other planets I hope they haven't screwed their world as badly as we have.

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Up to 40,000 planets could support alien life forms, scientists at the 
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Researchers have calculated that up to 37,964 worlds in our galaxy are 
  hospitable enough to be home to creatures at least as intelligent as 
  ourselves. 
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Astrophysicist Duncan Forgan created a computer programme that collated all 
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