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Planets May Form in Hundreds, Not Millions, of Years

Posted by timothy on from the presto-formo dept.

Seanasy writes "Recent simulations on the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Terascale Computing System suggest that planet formation may take a lot less time than previously thought. The results were published in SCIENCE."

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  1. Re:Geez! by Teancom · · Score: 3, Funny

    And in a desperate attempt to correllate this poster's comment with the story that it is attached to:

    "I have not checked out those reviews, but they must have been written very quickly!"

    Crap, that's not funny to me either :-(

    Oh, well, I guess there is no way to make the previous poster's comment make sense in this context. Say lah vee!

  2. Sure, but... by Myco · · Score: 5, Funny

    It takes much longer to get the fjords just right.

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