{"id":60,"date":"2006-10-06T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-12-13T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:43:13","slug":"weve-got-lots-of-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Got Lots of Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our ability to detect smaller extrasolar planets gets better, we&#8217;re finding that our galaxy &#8220;teems&#8221; with Earthlike planets.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a trove of fast-moving &#8220;candidate&#8221; planets in a narrow region near the very center of the Milky Way, and astronomers say there must be billions more of them &#8212; including many like Earth that orbit their suns in so-called &#8220;habitable&#8221; zones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m willing to bet that few of them are inhabited by aliens who look just exactly like humans except for forehead ridges or pointy ears, though.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2006\/10\/05\/MNGG9LINJC1.DTL\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our ability to detect smaller extrasolar planets gets better, we&#8217;re finding that our galaxy &#8220;teems&#8221; with Earthlike planets. The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a trove of fast-moving &#8220;candidate&#8221; planets in a narrow region near the very center of the Milky Way, and astronomers say there must be billions more of them &#8212; including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}