Looking For Another Earth? Here Are 300 Million, Maybe - New York Times

And that's the conservative estimate from NASA, according to Dennis Overbye who goes into detail about why there are possibly so many more. It's equal parts anthropocentric bias and hard science suggesting the galaxy is far more fertile than imagined by the fevered dreams of Heinlein, Bradbury, Clarke, and others. Should there be extraterrestrials on those worlds, their genesis may very well inform what we know about our own. Over at the BBC is a clever bit of media addressing The Mystery Of How Life Began On Earth all those aeons ago. 'Til us clever apes figure out star drives, Einstein-Rosen bridges, and other science-fictional magicks, we are resigned to hopefully eavesdropping on extraterrestrial emissions and the job just got harder. From the desk of Paul Seaburn, a Second Cable Mysteriously Fails And Causes More Damage To The Arecibo SETI Observatory. (CS)

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