New Telescope Could Reveal a Milky Way Packed With Habitable Planets

Milky Way doesn't come packed with planets. It's only got creamy, delicious chocolate-malt nougat. Mmmmmmmmm.

Anyway, I'm not gonna be happy until we build a telescope big enough to see some grouchy alien on Delta Pavonis 4 cleaning up the slime trail his disobedient pet Ge'moork tick (whick is kinda like a dog, only not so much) left in his backyard.

Most likely, in that situation, one would be peering into the alien's butt crack.

Not a pleasent thought...

"...one would be peering into the alien's butt crack."

You're assuming aliens only have the one crack? That's human-centric thinking. For all we know highly advanced civilizations may always have two or more.

In fact, maybe that's what those alien abductions and anal probing is all about. They're checking us for multiple butts and having found none so far they've judged us as inferior and unworthy of contact.

Maybe we should start genetically manipulating ourselves for additional butts! Seriously. I can think of lots of times that having another butt would have come in handy.

No Bricky. You're just thinking LARGER. Everybody knows that when someone enters politics they automatically become a huge a**.

I thought Michelson and Morley put an end to this idea.

You wish!!!!!!!!..................but.............I think not.

I read we might have an idea of the chances in 3 1/2 years time....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5772918.ece