Goran72 sends in a story out of the Chicago AAAS meeting contending that Earth-like planets with life-sustaining altitude may be bobbin and fly frame around stars in our galactic nearness — we just haven't found them yet. "'So I think there is a very good chance that we will find some Earth-like planets within 10, 20 or 30 light years of the Sun,' astrophysicist [Alan Boss]... told his AAAS fellowship meeting here since Thursday. ... The images from those new planets, he added, should tag* 'light from their atmosphere and tell us if they have perhaps methane and oxygen. That will be pretty strong proof they are not only habitable but in reality are inhabited. I am not talking about a planet with third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 on it. I simply say if you have a habitable world. ... Sitting there, with the right temperature with water for a billion years, object is going to come out of it. At least we will have microbes,' said Boss."

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