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10-31-2008, 10:52 AM | #1 |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Hello Star Trek Fans
Star Trek fans, take heart — Mr. Spock's fabled home star, the nearby Epsilon Eridani, could harbor an Earth-like planet.
NASA astronomers today report that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt and a Jupiter-like giant planet in roughly the same orbits as in our own solar system. Only 850 million years old, a fifth the age of Earth's sun, Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system. About 62 trillion miles away, it is the closest known solar system. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science...ek-earth_N.htm
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10-31-2008, 11:08 AM | #2 |
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Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me (one of my favorite NPR programs) had Leonard Nimoy as a guest on a recent show. Funny guy.
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10-31-2008, 12:08 PM | #3 |
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I heard that, it was really good. I listen to that show a lot on the way home from work.
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10-31-2008, 12:20 PM | #4 |
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Maybe we can invite the Vulcans over for the premier of the new Star Trek movie next spring.
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10-31-2008, 03:57 PM | #5 |
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It's kind of cool that we live in an age where we can imagine space travel, and meeting other civilizations and species of sentient beings......and believe it to be possible, by and large. And yet, we have not reached the age where we have killed each other off.
kind of a sweet spot.
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10-31-2008, 06:01 PM | #6 |
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@ LJ.
I fear it may be a brief age.
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10-31-2008, 06:18 PM | #7 |
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given the exponential rate of our progress, i would expect so.....especially relative to the years leading up to the current age.
in my gut....and working under the assumption of continued progress instead of Armageddon.... it seems like we are only maybe.....2-300 years away from interstellar travel. And once that happens, maybe like....oh.....6 months until we get eradicated by some advanced alien race.
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11-04-2008, 09:18 PM | #8 |
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I think by the year 3000 we humans would be traveling at the speed of thought. Not as depicted on Futurama.
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11-04-2008, 09:20 PM | #9 |
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I don't think we'll still be here by the year 4000. I predict a hungry end for the world.
We should all stop breeding.
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11-04-2008, 10:18 PM | #10 |
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...says the pregnant woman.
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11-04-2008, 10:22 PM | #11 |
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Yes, that was supposed to be the funny part mate.
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11-04-2008, 10:34 PM | #12 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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It aint the breeding .....we should all stop driving :P
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11-07-2008, 05:56 PM | #13 |
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11-07-2008, 06:28 PM | #14 |
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11-07-2008, 07:51 PM | #15 |
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Any Solarsystem that would have a chance at life has to have a jupiter they are trash cans of the solar system
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