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Several Extrasolar Planets May Be Optical Illusions
person-0.9a writes "Seems that a few of the extrasolar planets detected via their sun's wobble might be written off according to a CNN article. You can also read it about it in New Scientist."
It's a good thing that this story linked to the CNN front page, because I couldn't remember what the URL is! Thanks, Slashdot.
If you are in Quake the world with monsters is "real" to you...
So this is from Tennesse State University? I remember years ago when I was in Tennessee, I had my own problems with the stars wobbling... and the moon, and the street lights, and the buildings, and so on. Had nothing to do with planets. Had everything to do with being in Lynchburg, home to the Jack Daniels distillery.
Get yourself a flask of Old No. 7 and you can induce a damn fine wobble in your own solar system.
Damn, people, get it straight: If you're going to make up new words, make up new words. If you're going to use trendy-sounding old words, GET THEM RIGHT.
It's quoth, by the way.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
Damnit, guttentag! I just swallowed a pepperoni Combos thingy.....whole. Damn near killed myself. But still, funniest frickin' thing I've read all week.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
(* I had this dream once where you could see reflections of the earth in the night sky. It only happened once in a great while, like a comet or something, so everyone was outside trying to look. It was a pretty trippy dream. *)
Well, I once had a dream that I was a purple toad and that I ate with my butt and went potty with my mouth. However, I died when Nepolean piled too many war maps on top of me while cleaning out his 12-foot roledex, and then I woke up.
I stopped eating spicy cheese-stakes after that.
(I'll give you 5 bucks if you don't mod me "off topic")
Table-ized A.I.