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Offline Mince

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« on: June 16, 2012, 11:21:13 AM »
The guys from SETI reckon that with the new knowledge that most suns have planets and about 1 in 10,000 of those are likely inhabitable, and with the exponential growth in detection ability, we will find ET within twenty years.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: ET
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2012, 12:53:35 PM »
Quote from: Mince on June 16, 2012, 11:21:13 AM
The guys from SETI reckon that with the new knowledge that most suns have planets and about 1 in 10,000 of those are likely inhabitable, and with the exponential growth in detection ability, we will find ET within twenty years.

Don't you mean uninhabitable?
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Offline Mince

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Re: ET
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2012, 04:21:56 PM »
I don't think so.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2012, 05:02:07 PM »
Okay I misread it. I'm trying to work out how I could have. Senility creeping in...
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Offline The Peepmaster

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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2012, 06:46:46 PM »
Unless you subsequently altered the post and the quote in my comment... (No, of course you wouldn't do such a thing.)
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: ET
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2012, 08:09:37 PM »
I can't believe all this semantic discussion when we're about to be invaded by aliens!
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Offline Bilthehut

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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2012, 08:59:41 AM »
Don't worry, Roger.  Once they view the internet and a particular forum, they will be so confused they won't want to stay.
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