Billions of Habitable Planets?

[Coito ergo sum]

New 'life in space' hope after billions of 'habitable planets' found in Milky Way

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac ... y-Way.html

[Animavore]

So how soon before I can leave for one of these planets?

[Woodbutcher]

I'm hoping to move to the Planet of the Cats.

[Ian]

So when can I pay twenty bucks to have one of them named Ian World? So that someday people will colonize it and they'll be obligated to erect at least a few statues to me, maybe name the capital city Ianopolis, etc...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

OR they'd erect a statue of Magneto.

[Drewish]

But we haven't finished raping this one yet!

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I'm hoping to move to the Planet of the Cats.

You already did.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But we haven't finished raping this one yet!

Okay, so ten years from now?

[Tyrannical]

What makes Earth habitable is that early life over a long period of time changed the environment, such as giving it an oxygen atmosphere. Any planet devoid of life would not be particularly pleasant, and terraforming the original Earth naturally required millions of years. Even with life and an oxygen atmosphere, we not evolving under that planet's circumstances could render all local food poisonous. Unless the dice are loaded.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What makes Earth habitable is that early life over a long period of time changed the environment, such as giving it an oxygen atmosphere. Any planet devoid of life would not be particularly pleasant, and terraforming the original Earth naturally required millions of years. Even with life and an oxygen atmosphere, we not evolving under that planet's circumstances could render all local food poisonous. Unless the dice are loaded.

That's with our current technology. I think that if we could even get to those planets we'd be better prepared to rape improve the existing environment.

[FBM]

But we haven't finished raping this one yet!

Okay, so two years from now?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

But we haven't finished raping this one yet!

Okay, so two years from now?

I suspect we've already done the deed and just need to realize it.

[Tyrannical]

What makes Earth habitable is that early life over a long period of time changed the environment, such as giving it an oxygen atmosphere. Any planet devoid of life would not be particularly pleasant, and terraforming the original Earth naturally required millions of years. Even with life and an oxygen atmosphere, we not evolving under that planet's circumstances could render all local food poisonous. Unless the dice are loaded.

That's with our current technology. I think that if we could even get to those planets we'd be better prepared to rape improve the existing environment.

Self replicating microscopic machines that convert CO2 into O2, aka early life, may be hard to beat with technology.

[FBM]

But we haven't finished raping this one yet!

Okay, so two years from now?

I suspect we've already done the deed and just need to realize it.

Thinkin' that way myself lately.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

What makes Earth habitable is that early life over a long period of time changed the environment, such as giving it an oxygen atmosphere. Any planet devoid of life would not be particularly pleasant, and terraforming the original Earth naturally required millions of years. Even with life and an oxygen atmosphere, we not evolving under that planet's circumstances could render all local food poisonous. Unless the dice are loaded.

That's with our current technology. I think that if we could even get to those planets we'd be better prepared to rape improve the existing environment.

Self replicating microscopic machines that convert CO2 into O2, aka early life, may be hard to beat with technology.

But they can be replicated, perhaps, by technology, so we are back at square one.