Friday, August 06, 2004

Bad News for Aliens

Despite the discovery of a new planet every few weeks, scientists still have dim hopes of another solar system.

I would think it's a little premature to write things off. Twenty years ago, we weren't aware of any planets outside of our neighborhood. With billions and billions of stars, 120 planets might be too small a number to be statistically valid.

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