percentage of stars with potentially habitable planets?

[Darren Dirt]

Apparently twenty-something*.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/11/there-are-probably-billions-of-earth-like-planets-in-the-universe/281138/

"...surveyed 42,000 sun-like stars, searching for the tell-tale visual sign of a planet: the periodic dimming that occurs when that planet crosses in front of its host star. The trio discovered, from that analysis, 603 planets, 10 of which are Earth-sized and orbit their host stars in the habitable zone (the range of distance from a host star that allows the surface temperature of a planet to be suitable for liquid water)."

I think I have an issue with both the sample size and the methodology/presumptions. But it makes for great media hype!



article abstract here (apparently to read the full article you gotta pay $ )




*22 percent,  plus or minus 8 percent. Potayto, potahto...

[Mr. Analog]

Direct me to the one with the green alien babes plz

[Darren Dirt]

Direct me to the one with the green alien babes plz

meh, my guess for future events, when it comes to earthlings being involved: violent or even accidental [cultural] conquest is far more likely than tourism for Eccentrica Gallumbits and her ilk.

[Mr. Analog]

Well, I guess we better learn how to speak Klingonee