VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|theironduck|DATE|1357749085|CONTENT|[blockquote]the 17,000,000,000 should actaully be multiplied by 170,000,000,000 to get the total number of earth like planets in the universe[/blockquote]

That would give you an approximation for the number of Earth-like planets in the part of the universe that we can see, i.e. the [i]observable[/i] universe.  AFAIK it is undecided if the actual universe is infinite in extent or not but that possibility is not excluded.|IP-ADDRESS|62.173.102.55|MODERATIONFLAG|