Billions of Habitable Planets?

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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by FBM » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:06 pm

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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:09 pm

*drops a tab and kicks back*
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Coito ergo sum » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:41 pm

All this talk of terraforming...

Step one, of course, is getting there....they are far away. Space is big - really big.
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 2:43 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:All this talk of terraforming...

Step one, of course, is getting there....they are far away. Space is big - really big.
It may be that we're the first species to implement Panspermia. Send "packages" of tailored bacteria to candidate planets via robot probes.
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by FBM » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:12 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:*drops a tab and kicks back*
You're gonna need this, then:

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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:13 pm

I have, I think, seventeen of their albums. :levi:
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by mistermack » Thu Mar 29, 2012 6:45 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:I have, I think, seventeen of their albums. :levi:
Well I think that's terrible.

Whether you nicked them, or just borrowed them, I think you ought to give them back.
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Tyrannical » Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:42 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:I have, I think, seventeen of their albums. :levi:
I have 102 albums including Waters and Syd solo work in my Pink Floyd folder.
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Re: Billions of Habitable Planets?

Post by Warren Dew » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:56 am

Why do people assume that it's going to be us colonizing them? Do people really think cats are native to Earth?
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