Solar System? Systems.

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As one who takes severe interest in the unknown (which is quite vast considering Earth's approximate 4.6 billion year history, or 6000 years if you're Christian etc etc.) I find our Solar System, as well as every other Solar System recently discovered, to be at the top of the list. Recently
astronomers have found a "planetary system" that highly resembles our own, although it's a 
staggering 5000 light-years away.  The two planets found are comparable to Jupiter and Saturn 
in our Solar System, despite the star they orbit being half the size of our Sun. With similar orbiting periods and radii, these planets and Systems are beginning to prove our own planetary situation is no anomaly. Thus, the possiblity of alien-life existing elsewhere increases dramatically, as who can honestly put a maximum on the number of systems, stars,  planets that are to be found? Some may have refuted this possibility twenty or thirty years ago, but ever since the first discovery in 1995 by Mayor and Queloz of planets orbiting sun-comparable stars, that refutation has seem duller and duller. As technology advances at a lightning-
speed rate, we can only guess what is to be discovered in the years coming. A 2006 estimate 
placed astronomers at discovering 25 new planets every year, and it is still increasing. A congratulatory  pat-on-the-back to science and technology with anticipation for the future.