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We're happy to announce today There is on average one planet orbiting every star in  the launch of an Open Science group which will meet monthly Universe \citep{2013ApJ...764..105S, 2012Natur.481..167C}. If this sounds exciting, you might wanna read the \href{https://www.authorea.com/10997/}{previous post}  in New York City and discuss Open Science, data-driven science, scientific transparency and reproducibility this series. Our Galaxy (the Milky Way) is an immense disk of gas  and stars with a diameter of about 100~000 light years, hosting about 100 billion stars and, therefore, also about 100 billion planets. Take a deep breath.  Now, it turns out  the future Milky Way is just one  of scholarly writing 100 billion galaxies that populate our Universe, a colossal expanding stretch of spacetime with an age of 13.7 billion years.  The math is trivial: There are about 10~000~000~000~000~000~000~000 = $10^{22}$ planets out there.   This number is extremely large. Apparently larger than the\href{http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/09/17/161096233/which-is-greater-the-number-of-sand-grains-on-earth-or-stars-in-the-sky}{ number of grains of sand} found in every beach  and publishing. every desert on Earth.  But how many of these planets host life? And in particular,\textbf{ how many planets host intelligent life we might be able to communicate with}?  \textbf{\href{http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Open-Science-Meetup/}{New York Open Science Meetup}}  Please join us to keep posted about future events.   P.s. There will be PIZZA.