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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. BUG-SPLAT! by BUG-SPLAT! · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ooooo, more beeg calcyoolashuns dun by beeg braines hoomans. More plannits find they. Other plannits maybee peace liv inhabitints there. Other plannits maybee not destroyee all for sake of munnee, greeede, power, they.

    Not so, probablee. Same sitchyooashun as earth plannit, probablee. More beeg braine inhabitants = more dum calcyoolashuns = more beeg weppuns = more munnee = more greede = take all hooman = not peace plannit. On sutch plannit, guarintee bug armee just like earth bug armee. Maybee other plannit bug armee more powerful! Have more legs they! Have more antennules they! Have beeeger suckeng mouth parts they! HA HA hooman!

    Smallest babee bugg on day hatch egg sak, smarter than hooman beeg braines. Onlee centrill nerve ganglia but smarter.

    So tired of all hoomans bug. So tired of hoomans, plannit earth. Poor plannit earth. Cry for earth all bug and friend bug creetures. Cant waite for beeg battle day when die all hoomans. Find more plannits beeg braines, more plannits calcyoolashuns not help hooman.

    BUG-SPLAT! @-@

  2. Re:What do Christians think about this? by GungaDan · · Score: 1, Troll
    "What do Christians think about stories like this?"

    "Wonder if they have altar boys, too?"

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    Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
  3. Re:Incidentally...he's dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and u motherfuckers are still riding his dizzick

    go jerk off into a towel 42 times.

  4. Re:why so keen on earth-sized? by treat · · Score: 1, Troll
    The reason that we are arrogant is that we were created in the image of our creator, and we thus have the very notion that all life must resemble the life we see on earth ingrained in our very being.

    Huh? This doesn't make any sense. Is it supposed to refer to a creation myth?

  5. Re:why so keen on earth-sized? by sean23007 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I believe it is supposed to refer to some creation myth, presumably Chritianity's. Ridiculous, I know, and it really has no place here.

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    Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.