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Old 09-30-2010, 01:55 AM   #1
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A Habitable Exoplanet?!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ble-exoplanet/

Tidally locked with its primary, Gliese 581, Gliese 581g has a 36-earthday year and three times Earth's mass and is right in the Goldilocks zone.

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“The fact that we found one so close and so early on in the search suggests there’s a lot of these things,” Butler says. Only about 100 other stars are as close to Earth as Gliese 581, and only 9 of them have been closely examined for planets. Odds are good that 10 to 20 percent of stars in the Milky Way have habitable planets . . .
"And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord,
Where lightyears frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword?"
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Old 09-30-2010, 02:03 AM   #2
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Old 09-30-2010, 02:19 AM   #3
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Only if I can drag you with me!
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Old 09-30-2010, 02:41 AM   #4
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Not a fucking chance, exoplanet, Carl Rove's tea parties, or anywhere else.
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Old 09-30-2010, 10:39 AM   #5
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Bruce, your whole life is one big dark stack of never-fun. Makes you tedious. You don't even care to explore outer space; how groundhoggin' is that?
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Old 09-30-2010, 10:41 AM   #6
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I'll go. Will there be more intelligent life? Please?
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Old 09-30-2010, 11:16 AM   #7
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Old 09-30-2010, 11:23 AM   #8
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Bruce, your whole life is one big dark stack of never-fun. Makes you tedious. You don't even care to explore outer space; how groundhoggin' is that?
I haven't come close to finishing inner space, or even started on wet space, so have at it, Buck Rogers.
The only plus for outer space, is one can not hear bagpipes or bleating.
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Old 09-30-2010, 11:49 AM   #9
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More intelligent than the life here, not more of us goons.
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Old 09-30-2010, 12:03 PM   #10
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More intelligent than the life here, not more of us hobo haggisers.
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Old 09-30-2010, 12:05 PM   #11
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What is that smilie? It looks like a potato chip!

"I feel so happy right now I could be a potato chip!"

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Old 09-30-2010, 03:21 PM   #12
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it says it's a hamster. I thought it looked like intelligent extra-terrestrial haggis. But it could be a potato chip. They're pretty smart, you know....
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Old 09-30-2010, 03:33 PM   #13
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lol

It says "guinea" so I guess it's a guinea pig?

Speaking of potato chips that look like things, I found a rock the other day that looks like baby Jebus. Swaddled. I'm thinking of selling it on e-bay.

That will fund my trip to Gliese 581.
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Old 09-30-2010, 04:15 PM   #14
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The only plus for outer space, is one can not hear bagpipes or bleating.
Nor political ass-hattery.
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Old 09-30-2010, 04:36 PM   #15
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guinnea pig/hamster potato chip/potato crisp -they all cook up the same
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lol

It says "guinea" so I guess it's a guinea pig?

Speaking of potato chips that look like things, I found a rock the other day that looks like baby Jebus. Swaddled. I'm thinking of selling it on e-bay.

That will fund my trip to Gliese 581.
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