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Planetary System Similar to Sol

Posted by michael on from the new-places-to-go-to-war-against dept.

sgtwilko writes "The BBC News site has an article about how astronomers have found several new planets including some that have a similar distribution to our own Solar System. They are finding planetary systems that are more and more like the one in which the Earth resides. It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet Finder program gets going and finds another Earth." There's another story on space.com. Update: 06/13 21:51 GMT by M : Space News and Wired have stories as well, with spiffy graphics and artists' renderings and so on.

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  1. WOOHOO! by Bob+McCown · · Score: 4, Funny
    First we find the big planets

    Then we find the small planets

    Then we find the ones with intelligent life

    Then we communicate

    Then...

    Alien Pr0n!

    1. Re:WOOHOO! by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

      Jack Handey had it right:

      "I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system."

      "Whether they find a life there or not, I think Jupiter should be called an enemy planet."

      "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

      --
      I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  2. As it turns out.. by iforgotmyfirstlogon · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is all just a hoax. As it turns out, a group of rival scientists went up into space and just put a REALLLY big mirror up there.

    - Freed

    --
    "Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." -Turkish Proverb
  3. Well... It'll just have to go. by Rothfuss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Start building the fleet!

    I recommend employing shiny white robots as our attack force.

    -Rothfuss

    1. Re:Well... It'll just have to go. by Dirtside · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, no, we'll just use clones, they're more efficient -- and hey, I hear that the Kanadians just happen to have a fully-trained clone army ready to go. Man, those Kanadians are excellent cloners.

      What? I've only seen it three times, why?

      --
      "Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
  4. Still waiting... by Peale · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's only a matter of time until the Terrestrial Planet Finder program gets going and finds another Earth

    Yep. And when that happens, I'm leaving.

    1. Re:Still waiting... by namespan · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yep. And when that happens, I'm leaving.

      Not if you have kids, you aren't.

      "Are we there yet?"

      "No."

      "How much longer?"

      "I just told you, we've got at least 75 light years!"

      "But I have to go!"

      "Dammit, if I have to decelerate below .5 c again, so help me..."

      --
      Libertarianism is rich wolves and poor sheep playing gambler's ruin for dinner.