New Planet Types

Pardon the misdirect title...just thought this was really cool.  Number of probable planets in stable habitable zones in the Milky Way alone...tens of billions.

The article is here.

Interestingly, our best "earth candidate" discovery so far is in a trinary star system.  Go figure.

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So a theory that earth has already been found by numerous extra terrestrial enteties and have been interacting with us throughout our entire history just went up a few notches. :)

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Pardon the misdirect title

And in Sins clans??? o_O

And not the dampen the enthusiasm, but I hope those super Earths have lots of lead... ;)

"But red dwarfs are known to be subject to stellar eruptions or flares, which may bathe the planet in X-rays or ultraviolet radiation, and which may make life there less likely."

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Lol--I have no idea how this made it to Sins Clans--I added it in General.

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Yet... we just killed NASA?

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no worries m8, we still have our private industry and as always, our massive military space program. 

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One day I want my own private massive space military.