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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    all your planets are belong to us!

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      The real question here is this:

      Will we find a comparable planet to Uranus?

  2. First Fucking Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Googles taken goatse.cx out of the search results! Im not kidding! Search for goatse and its gone!

  3. first post by chavster77 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post

    ...long live Nietzsche

    --
    Through the perception of illusion, we experience reality.
  4. Shower Days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the morning I awake
    I feel my bladder about to break
    Scratch my balls, I rub my eyes
    Feeling lousy

    My girlfriend tells me that
    It's time to take a bath
    I say, "No, not today, it's only Tuesday"

    Once every 24 hours
    I'm supposed to take a shower
    That's not the way I do it
    Do it, do it

    Personal hygiene is the last thing on my mind
    I don't want to do it
    Do it, do it

    It doesn't make a difference to me
    Everyday I do the same old thing
    So why should I have to be clean?

    Those dreaded Wednesdays and Saturdays
    Also known as shower days
    I hate them

  5. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  6. Its /.'ed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But Google groups has a USENET article about it!

  7. Re:WOOHOO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    humans cant make alieans pregnant! screw them all you want!

    Actually you can get aliens pregnant, but that doesn't really matter.. I just call INS after I'm done with them.

  8. First Sunglasses Emote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    (H).
    Sunglasses Emote.
    You know how we do... coast to coast (H).
    How do you like the DIPLOMA!

  9. Re:WOOHOO! by hij · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    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.

    --
    Believe nothing -- Buddha
  10. Re:WOOHOO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sorry. I thought I had a sure opportunity to troll. I read that as "I'm not even convinced that even one other planet exists...." I apologize.

  11. Re:Catholics by TGK · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    Killfile(TGK)
    No trees were killed in the creation of this post. However, many electrons were inconvenienced.