Planetary System Similar to Sol Discovered

Anonymous Coward writes: "The Washington Post is carrying its own copy about a planetary system very similar to Sol in the Big Dipper. 47 Ursae Majoris has at least two large gas giants in circular orbits, similar to many of Sol's satellites, and the possibility exists for smaller, currently undetectable rocky planets closer to the primary. Circular orbits are less common than highly elliptical orbits, and are more promising. Read the whole article to find out why."

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Re:killing serious discussion

[whiteranger99x]

Oh suuuuure!! mark everyone ELSE as funny and me as a troll!

Oh wait a minute, i DID troll...my bad :)

Re:killing serious discussion

[whiteranger99x]

Wouldn't it funny and ironic if we modded this guy's post as funny? :)

Amen brother!

[Invisible Agent]

Knowing about it doesn't end world hunger. It doesn't stop war.

Boy, are you right on this one! If only everyone embraced your message that building technology at the expense of stopping world hunger and ending war is wrong, just think of the world we'd live in.

I mean, we could have spent all of those resources wasted creating microchips on growing soy, and we could have given the money used to build the Internet to the United Nations for better policing of world conflicts.

Of course, then we couldn't have this conversation on Slashdot, because we'd be living in mud huts, you simpleton.