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Old 11-30-2010, 10:57 AM   #27
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That's not how science works generally.

Unless Earth and this other unknown planet are complete anomalies, which I don't think this is the case, there probably are millions of planets (earth like).
Science works on evidence and not statistical extrapolation on data sets of two.

It doesn't work on "probablies".

We don't even know all of the parameters that are required to create a planet like Earth. For all we know, age of the solar system is a factor, which in that case, puts limits on where an Earth-like planet could exist at any given point in time. You couldn't extrapolate that data set to include the whole universe.
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