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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK now I am more puzzled than ever. NASA says there are about 8.8 billion Goldilocks planets in the Milky Way alone:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/study-8-8-billion-earth-size-just-planets-212232920.html">http://news.yahoo.com/study-8-8-billion-earth-size-just-planets-212232920.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had always assumed it about 4 orders of magnitude below that number. Now get one of the NASA deep space imagines, and imagine all those smudges of light each containing more such planets than there are people on this Goldilocks planet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I must reluctantly conclude that we are missing something fundamental, so much so that it calls into question nearly everything we thought was true. I just can’t get my head around the notion that we are the only ones here with all those habitable planets all over the place.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>