[ExI] kepler study says 8.8e9 earthlike planets

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 08:15:15AM -0500, Mike Dougherty wrote:

> Just throwing this out as food for thought:  Why are there no teenagers in
> kindergarten?
> 
> Perhaps civilizations with the power to overcome interstellar distances and
> lightspeed delays simply move out of this neighborhood.  Maybe 8.8e9

They cannot move out of this universe, so they're subject to the
laws of thermodynamics.

> earthlike planets is just an incubator and we've just about hatched?
> 
> Sorry no, I don't have any cosmology evidence to support this idea.

There is plenty of evidence against that idea: you can see the stars.
You can read this message. Ergo, we're in nobody's smart light cone. QED.