50 Billion Planets Just in Milky Way Galaxy
March 5th, 2011Via: Space.com:
Our galaxy could be home to a whopping 50 billion planets, say scientists working on NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope.
While Kepler hasn’t found nearly that many planets — to date it’s counted 1,235 candidate planets — that cosmic tally is researchers’ best guess, extrapolated from preliminary data. The Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March 2009, is the world’s most sophisticated observatory dedicated to studying alien planets.
Kepler scientists presented an update on the spacecraft’s findings this month at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
“I am really delighted to find that we are seeing so many candidates,” said William Borucki, Kepler’s principal investigator. “It means there’s a very rich ocean of planets out there to explore.”
Exlore? I’m hoping that somewhere, out there on all of these galaxies, planets, asteroids, etc. There rides a god/dess with very strong wings.
To carry Bradley Manning out of his prison. Ease his sorrow.
To put so many people, too numerous to mention in either physical or mental prison.: Bind them.
This is just a short prayer, but it could be a very long one.
I am going to be burning the candles for Bradley Manning for a long time to come. He needs our prayers. The truth will out, but he is suffering now.
Manning is a bit like Jesus.
I wonder if he had an inkling of the immense grief he was going to cause himself?
Timing is everything.
A corollary to this post (or vice verse), it seems, would be https://cryptogon.com/?p=20929
(‘NASA SCIENTIST CLAIMS TO HAVE FOUND FOSSILIZED REMAINS OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL BACTERIA IN FRESHLY FRACTURED METEORITES’)
That one had me in the search engines for hours.
-I’d perhaps link this post in a sidenote there as ‘related’.