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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William Ronald" data-source="post: 30848" data-attributes="member: 426">Good point, Piratecat.  Isaac Asimov once wrote a science fiction story about Earth discovering life on Jupiter that was very funny.  (Piratecat, if you want me to spoil the joke, let me know.)Actually, the gas giants tend to gather up some of the debris in a solar system and may make it easier for life on earth sized planets.For some of the planets spotted beyond our Solar System, a few are gas giants large enough  to easily have moons the size of Earth.  Imagine an Earth that circled around a planet larger than Jupiter, which in turn orbited its sun.  Can you imagine what the sky would look like.Astronomy is an old interest of mine.  Ironically, it is helping me in critiquing a friend's screenplay.</blockquote>