How many Earthlike Planets could there be?

ExtraSolar Planets...we know that they are out there..currently as of June 6th 2008 there are 294 extrasolar planets and so far none of them actually resemble a "earthlike" type of planet. Mostly all extrasolar planets that have bee detected have masses much closer to that of the planet Jupiter than of earth and they orbit thier parent star pretty darn closely. Kinda like mercury orbits our sun. So how the hell can we detect these smaller planets the ones that are capable of harnessing life and water and are far from their parent star orbiting naturally in a habitable zone. Well once we have the extrasolar planets confirmed that are near their apparent star we can use the same wobble technique that we used to find the jupiter size planet an put it to use. Find its moons and if their are any smaller planets orbiting out their in the habitable zone. We have many future missions to identify smaller earthlike extrasolar planets coming up in the near future. one of them is the Keppler mission which was started in 2001 and is set to launch in may 2009. We are estimating that the Kepler mission will discover possibly 1,000 new extrasolar planets in just one year viewing over 300,000 near bye stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Many of these extrasolar planets are estimated to be "earthlike".

We have found a couple earthlike planets out there even though they are about 3-10 times of mass that earth has. But we have found rocky planets and even extrasolar planets that are guessed to be made up of nothing BUT water! Do they harbor life? scientists dont have enough evidence to answer that yet and the amount that they have point to the "no" direction.

We are pretty sure there are WAY more extrasolar planets out there then there are stars. In our own Milky Way Galaxy there estimated to be a couple hundred billion stars. and now the Milky Way Galaxy is considered to be an average sized Galaxy. Now how many earthlike planets do think are in our Milky Way galaxy ? Probably a couple billion or so. And how many of these earthlike extrasolar planets might have advanced intelligence? Lets say a couple million or so. Not even counting all of the satellites (moons) orbiting these extrasolar planets.

Now lets just think about all of the galaxies that are out there in our universe. We really have no clue but we know and have observed 100's of billions of galaxys and we can only observe like 15% of the universe. So how many earthlike extrasolar planets do think are out there now? How many do you think have advanced intelligence. Probably about 300 billion or so give or take a few hundred billion. Now how many Universes are out there ???? There could be none there could be billions. And this is just basing all of our knowledge that we know of is capable of producing intelligent life.

We know very little about other galaxies and we know nothing of other universes which could have a totally different principle and rules on physics !!! They could be 4 or 5 dimensional we have no idea. And whos to say certain cellestial galaxies or even stars in our own galaxy dont have intelligent life on a exoplanet thats has no water at all? We breathe oxygen...why cant a life form evolve that which they breathe hydrogen and have razor sharp teeth with titanium stomachs that eat rock to survive !?!? Far fetched? Only to us and what we know now. Think about how much and what we new about the stars then. Think about how much we will know in the year 3000 a.d.? In the year 3000 a.d. scientists will make jokes about are hypothesis here in our modern age. We would have allready contacted intelligent life on extrasolar planets by then if the planet earth is still around. Extrasolar planets are everywhere in the night sky we just cant see them yet. But I know as the years and decades increase so will the discovery of extrasolar planets .

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