Nonsense in the Science TV Show "The Hunt for Planet B"

Source	https://futureandcosmos.blogspot.com/2026/07/nonsense-in-science-tv-show-hunt-for.html
Author	Mark Mahin
Published	2026-07-01, 12:00 PM
Summary	The HBO Max TV show "The Hunt for Planet B" is one that starts out with a scientist spouting bad reasoning right at its beginning. Around the 3:20 mark we see an MIT scientist named Sara Seager saying this in some congressional hearing:"Well let me just say that in our own Milky Way galaxy there are a hundred billion stars and we now believe in our universe we have more than a hundred billion galaxies. So if you just do the math, the chance that there's a planet like earth out there with life on
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