So they’re not all politics …

Sane and intelligent politicians in the USA - I wish em all the best & hope, really hope, they do better than many in the world expect based on past history ..

I can think of a few better things to do on Sunday - or any morning than sit in front of a computer ..
(Not knocking blogs or ‘puters mind you jus’ sayin’ ..)

It summarizes at least two talks. The 1st by Michael Meyer, describes the Spitzer results that BA describes in another blog entry: Earths may be common in the galaxy. (don’t know how to make a link) The second talk was by Alan Stern discussing how many undiscovered planets there might be in the Kuiper Belt and possibly in the Oort Cloud.

There is also a section quoting Debra Fischer on the “Goldilocks Zone”, but I can’t tell if this was a talk or an interview.

Anyway, the 2nd paragraph (after the lead-in) is a summary of Meyer’s remarks and the 3rd paragraph is a summary of Stern’s. The reported is definitely *not* confusing the solar system with the galaxy.

In the original story (saved a copy… in case you would want to read it yourself)… the author clearly made a confusion between galaxy and solar system.

I may not be a native english speaker but I’m not that dumb…

HINT!
You should have noticed the title change of the article from:

‘Hundreds of worlds’ in Milky Way

to

Planet-hunters set for big bounty

Why would somebody change the article title in less than a day if everything was ok?

I read that BBC story too: I think you’ve skipped over the significant word “also” in that sentence you quote. To me it seemed quite clear that the author knew the difference between our solar system and our galaxy.

Gary 7″

I think there are a lot of intelligent people in public life you don’t get through and ivy league law school being a idiot(at least not unless the school is named after you) I think the issue is lawyer while it some case like public defenders are very community minded people that work on principles and you could say the same for prosecutors since neither really make that much money but both have strong personal reason to be there. Most lawyer that go to law school do it for the money and those are the kinds that we have in congress right now. They care about number 1 and thats all thats not to say they aren’t smart but I do think it is to say they are uninformed and lean on there staffs to much rather than having a good grasp of the issues on there own. It Scary how often it turns on that Congressmen and women haven’t even read what they are voting on. Scary stuff

I’m glad we have physicist running for congress I just hope he doesn’t forget how to think on his own when he gets there. Freshmen congressmen tend to give up ghost early at once its gone theres not much hope.