I’m SO <\/span>not im- <\/strong>pressed.<\/span><\/div>\n
R<\/span>ecently, it was announced that the other big space telescope launched in 2009 by NASA, Kepler, discovered 1,284 planets<\/a>. Excuse me, some reports like to term these as “exo-planets”. “An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun.”<\/p>\n
Now, I don’t mean to sound exo-sarcastic, but I guess I always assumed that among the trillions of stars in the universe there was a pretty high probability that there were some big rocks hanging around some of them.<\/p>\n
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Apparently, since the late 80’s we’ve now discovered around 3,000 planets outside of our own solar system. Wow. I had no idea how truly limited we really are. But, I guess it shouldn’t come as such a surprise since we’re still arguing over whether we have 8 or 9 planets in our system or not.<\/p>\n
I don’t know, this just seems so, 5th grade science project like. I thought we were well beyond the shock and awe of finding planets that are so far away we’ll never ever go to them.<\/p>\n
I mean, 1,200 planets? Whoo! Wow! I’m so NOT IMPRESSED!?!<\/p>\n
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We are part of the Milky Way galaxy.<\/li>\n
It is estimated that there are more than 200 BILLION galaxies in the universe. AT LEAST.<\/li>\n
In the observable universe, as far was we Earthlings can estimate, there are around 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 exo-planets.<\/li>\n
So, if we add the recently discovered 1,284 to the previously logged ~3,000 since 1988 that totals 4,284 discovered exo-planets.<\/li>\n
….OR a whopping 0.0000000000000000004284% of the possible exo-planets out there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Yeah, I stand by my original reaction. I’m SO not impressed with this recent “discovery” of 1,200 exo-planets. Woopity-doo. Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m SO not im- pressed. Recently, it was announced that the other big space telescope launched in 2009 by NASA, Kepler, discovered 1,284 planets. Excuse me, some reports like to term these as “exo-planets”. “An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is …<\/p>\n
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