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Alien Solar System Much Like Ours

Posted by michael on from the don't-get-your-hopes-up dept.

MrGort writes "Wired News reports that British astronomers say they found the first sun-like star with a giant gas planet in an orbit similar to Jupiter's, which leaves plenty of room for worlds like Earth and Mars. This system is a quick 90 light years away. The similar solar system to ours means that this gas giant could attract most of the debris, allowing smaller planets closer to the sun to develop like ours did!"

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  1. Raising the bar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Every day of my life I see various websites striving for improvement, while this glorified blog further descends into irrelevancy. This stupid article is months old. If you get your astronomy news from Wired (or slashdot for that matter) you're an insufferable idiot like Taco et al.

  2. Re: This is not Star Trek by HurlyBurlyMarley · · Score: 0, Troll

    You talking to me? The vibration doesn't have to happen on earth, it happens where the stick hits....If my stick is approximately 800,000,000 km long (long enough that it hits the target) and I move it an inch or so that it strikes Europa in a way that it makes a tone, all that matters is that it can be interpreted as dot-dot-dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot. That's possible without the vibration going through the stick.

    I think you are misinterpreting me. I'm not saying use the stick as a telephone wire, in which case you are right, but I'm saying extend the equipments reach and bypass the slow link(electrons in this case). I hope this amuses you...

    Flash Gordon just ended :(

  3. Re:It's impossible to use a stick like that. by HurlyBurlyMarley · · Score: -1, Troll

    I didn't read any debunking, could you explain what section, it's a rather lengthy document. In the beginning it states two problems: a) finding enough material b) passing spaceships might interfere. I didn't say this was practical and there is no pulling, the message is being sent/pushed to the recipient, Europa. Some parts do say information can travel faster then light:

    "Information can indeed exceed the speed of light. Consider gravity. Gravity is instantly transmitted across interstellar distances. That's information right there (the mass of the object)."

    The word "vibration" doesn't appear anywhere in the link you supplied. So again, why does this link debunk my post? What might happen if there was a steel drum on Europa, and the stick would hit the drum, would there be any sound? If you answer yes, can you understand why this would prove my point? If no, you need to read some Kant or something similar.