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Old 08-13-2022, 02:25 AM   #25
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Default Re: Number of habitable worlds within170 light years?

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Originally Posted by David Johnston2 View Post
More than a thousand if you set the bar low and just settle for liquid water. Actual breathable air without many centuries of terraforming? I suspect the number would be more like a hundred.

Given that people are kicking around various possibilities, perhaps the OP would define "habitable" for the purposes of argument. Just-like-Earth, temperate zone? 100 degrees in the shade, requires supplemental oxygen, 1.75 G?
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