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Astronomers Find Saturn-Size Planets in Other Syst
Slackeress writes "Looks like Astronomers searching the skies for distant planets have detected two Saturn-sized worlds orbiting distant suns, the smallest planets found thus far outside our solar system.
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.... no need to look for any more planets. As soon as I finish my transdimensional warp hawking drive we'll just go take a look at them up close.
While this story is interesting it's getting old so they managed to notice yet another closely orbiting very large planet. So what. I'm quite sure given the amount of matter floating around the galaxy that most stars have managed to aquire a few planets.
Does anyone else feel cheated that they probably won't get to see the moon in person. Back in the early seventies people were already planning on having vacation spots on the moon by now. Most astronauts felt that we would have visited mars by now. We have the technology we need the drive.
I wouldn't have trolled this story but I can't stand to see an article with only two comments.
Environmentalists are their own worst enemy. ~tricklenews.com
(Or is this another case of competing teams of scientists, racing to publish their results first?)
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