Planetary System Similar to Sol

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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Re:WOOHOO!

[hij]

I tried very hard to stay away from the new Star Wars movie but finally couldn't stand it anymore. This new movie had some very enlightening facts about Naboo:

• A matriarchial society.
• The people in charge appear to be ageless, teenage sluts.
• The women are willing to marry even homocidal egomaniacs.
• The only competition seems to be a bunch of half-witted, very tall lizards.

I for one am glad to see that we are getting closer to being able to reach out to these new and wonderful worlds.

Re:Catholics

[TGK]

And the difference there is important. The overwhelming majority of the United States is catholic. Where as the overwhelming majority of Italy is both catholic and Catholic.

For those of you who are are still scratching your nogin thinking TGK's an idiot....

catholic... as in "one holy catholic and apistolic (sp?) church" = Christian

Catholic... as in "Catholic girls start much to late" = Roman Catholic Church.

I swear to God if I get modded up for this and it comes up on metamod I'll vote it unfair.