{"id":11584,"date":"2014-06-19T11:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11584"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:17","slug":"milky-way-may-have-100-million-life-giving-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/milky-way-may-have-100-million-life-giving-planets","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way may have 100 million life-giving planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI<br \/>\n<br \/> \u201cIt seems highly unlikely that we are alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support life above the microbial level, reports a group of astronomers in the journal <em>Challenges<\/em> (open access), based on a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other stars in the universe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study does not indicate that complex life exists on that many planets; we\u2019re saying that there are planetary conditions that could support it, according to the paper\u2019s authors*. \u201cComplex life doesn\u2019t mean intelligent life \u2014 though it doesn\u2019t rule it out or even animal life \u2014 but simply that organisms larger and more complex than microbes could exist in a number of different forms,\u201d the researchers explain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/milky-way-may-have-100-million-life-giving-planets\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurweil AI \u201cIt seems highly unlikely that we are alone.\u201d There are some 100 million other places in the Milky Way galaxy that could support life above the microbial level, reports a group of astronomers in the journal Challenges (open access), based on a new computation method to examine data from planets orbiting other stars [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1545],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47036,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11584\/revisions\/47036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}