Scientists Find Distant Extrasolar Planet With Atmosphere

MurthyDN writes "The New York Times (Free Registration, man) has an article which says 'The Hubble Space Telescope has detected an extensive atmosphere of hydrogen enveloping and escaping from a newfound planet of a distant star, scientists reported yesterday. The discovery comes as no surprise, astronomers say, but is important nonetheless as apparent confirmation that the extrasolar planets observed so far not only are much like the solar system's Jupiter in size but also are similarly huge gaseous bodies.'"

Comments

Let's hope

[jsse]

it doesn't has any oil repository.

Or it'd be declared Evil Planet any time soon.

I Like Llamas

[hitzroth]

Why oh why can't we get more stories like this one where we know llamas will turn up indigenously extraterestrial.

Llamas are way cooler than ninjas: they can breath hydrogen and piss fire. Ninjas suck llama cock.

If I had a ninja I'd chop it up and feed it to a dog, make stir-fry from the dog and serve it to the gook family next door, then I'd set my llama on "feeding rampage" and let it loose in their house. I'd be a regular neighborhood superhero.

After all that, I'd grow bonsai in the llama guano and sell the bonsai in plastic explosive pots to what's left of the ninja clan. Once they return to their secret ninja lair, I'd set off the bonsai pot bombs and go follow the sound of the explosion to their secret lair and take pictures of the red smears and post them on my new website at ninja.smeardot.llama.

Millions of loser geeks world wide would then procede to kill themselves once they realize how lame ninjas really are and how they have lived their lives in such a haze of stupidity by ignoring the greatness of the llamas, who will not allow the loser geeks to worship them.

And that's why I don't want a ninja, because if I had one more people would die than all the Arab babies George W. Bush kills to make his cocaine hangover cure for him and Hitler's brain which is kept alive in a drawer in the Oval Office.

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Re:I Like Llamas

[jnana]

Dude, ninjas rock. You diss them now, but when you hear the electric guitars start wailing in the distance, you'll take back your words (hint: a ninja is about to flip out, and you'll probably lose your head).