Thursday, February 03, 2011

Seth Shostak: A Bucketful of Worlds

Seth Shostak: A Bucketful of Worlds:

"But here's the promise. If we crudely do the numbers, these early results from Kepler indicate that approximately 3 percent of all stars could boast a habitable planet. Within a thousand light-years of Earth -- a distance that could be bridged by transmitters no more powerful than equipment we ourselves can build -- there are at least 30,000 of these habitable worlds."

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