Category: Physics, Earth & Space
About Those Reported 8.8 Billion Earth-Like Planets
Readers may wonder why 10 out of 10,000 planets observed have been "Earth-like" in the "habitable zone," whereas 8.8 billion are extrapolated/calculated to exist.
Update: Those 8.8 Billion Earth-Like Planets Are Now "Found"
I guess a tale really does improve in the telling.
Our Vexing Planet: Still Privileged After All These Years
The only realistic resolution favorable to materialism would be offered by the hope, still elusive, of a signal from space.
Behold, Countless Earths Sail the Galaxies … That Is, if You Would Only Believe
Could exoplanets support life that has a different chemical composition? Absent details about the composition, who knows?
The Quest for "Exotic Matter" Fails Again
Why do they keep funding it? Same reason we fund evolutionary biology.