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First Image Of Planet-Like Body Orbiting A Star
deglr6328 writes "The Gemini North Telescope has, for the first time, directly imaged a planet like body orbiting a star. The object is a brown dwarf, 55 to 78 times the mass of planet Jupiter and 14 AU distant from its parent star 15 Sge. It was imaged using adaptive optics(see also here) that correct for the blurring effect of the atmosphere using deformable mirrors. Cool!"
Somebody go get SETI!
My second! Why am I so cool? Trolls will cower in fear. I am your master now. w00t! [xn]
I'd like to be, under the sea...
Can all fish swim?
First post for +ORC
Are you some kind of bottom feeding scum sucking geek hater or something.
Or have too many or all of your articles be rejected, that why you're anon??
Just imagine how much money the Weight Watcher people would make over there !
'nuff said.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
Good to see that you classify yourself as a "bottom feeding scum sucking geek" ;)
The worst terrorist attack in recorded history occurred back in September, followed by a Holy War against Islam, and now Israel and the Palestinians as well as India and Pakistan are teetering on the brink of their own war, Argentina is in the midst of a financial crisis, and you people have the gall to be discussing the imaging of a planet like body orbiting a star???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!
The bodies of the thousands of innocent civilians who died (and will die) in these unprecedented events could give a good god damn about extraterrestrial orbiting bodies, your childish Lego models, your nerf toy guns and whining about the lack of a "fun" workplace, your Everquest/Diablo/D&D fixation, the latest Cowboy Bebop rerun, or any of the other ways you are "getting on with your life" (here's a hint: watching Cowboy Bebop in your jammies and eating a bowl of Shreddies is *not* "getting on with your life"). The souls of the victims are watching in horror as you people squander your finite, precious time on this earth playing video games!
You people disgust me!
Harvard University has put some more images from the telescope online.
If I could wake up at 10 and play Quake 3 from 11am-3am and get paid enough money to live off of for it, I'd be pretty happy. If that's really how their lives are, I'd say good for them, I wish it could be that way for all of us.
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The object is a brown dwarf
... :-)
Doesn't look that brown to me!
Then again, I believe that black holes aren't that black either
Hello Coward,
Your post, thoughtfully worded and carefully constructed for MAXIMUM impact, is appreciated by me. Your comments on JonKatz are total bunk, but the rest of it redeems you, so that at least I can say that you are several rungs above the average garbage humans and idiotic freaks who hang out here.
The fact that your insightful post was taken down to "troll" level is 100% incontrovertible proof that Slashdot, and the drooling pack of mod ghods who run it, is utter bullsh8t. The "editors" of this site are nothing more than leeches, sucking legitimate content from other sites, all so that they can get up in the morning and have a J-O-B.
Commander "Taco", "timothy", "Cowboy" Neal, et.al. (if those really are your names), the Big COsmic Wheel is going to roll over your sorry a88es someday. The universe is an unforgiving place that tolerates mediocrity for only so long, before crushing it, utterly. I only hope I am here to see it happen.
I wish I had mod points, I would mod you up simply because of your sig. It's been a long time since I've laughed as hard as I did when I saw that scene in the Simpsons.
Caught on Tape VII: Brown Dwarves
go out and get some head or something, for god's sake!
congratulations,
You just received a karma point while making no sense whatsoever.
*You have missed the point*
You got 0 points out of 1, giving you the rank of Clueless Fuckwit.
QUIT, RESTART, or RESTORE?
but I'm reminded of a joke:
Q. What does toilet paper have in common with the star ship Enterprise?
A. The both go around Uranus picking up Klingons.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
Someone finally launched Tom Cruise into orbit.
Sorry. That was a height-insensitive joke. My apologies.
Um, Rush hasn't been fat for, what, over five years? Sheesh, update your fat list.
What's a Starbuck?
Whatchoo talkin' about?
"Information wants to be paid"
just couldn't resist.
"We must not, my friend, be the bubbles of our own liberal sentiments"
--John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson
Starbuck and Apollo are heroes!
hehe, very good.
Do you have any better hostages?
Have you ever seen Oprah in person? She's short and fat.
Starbuck is still stuck on that planet with the Sri Lanken, isn't he?
"All representatives are busy. The estimated hold time is one..hundred..sixty..four..minutes." Detroit Edison, 02/01/02
What's the distance between the brown dwarf and your anus? What about your anus and your son's anus? The dwarf's anus?
Of course, all you nerds out there realize "Red Dwarf" is a euphamism for "penis", don't you?
... and a blimp! A huge blimp and it's headed south!...