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Oldest Planet Ever Discovered
crymeph0 writes "NASA has found the oldest known planet in a globular star cluster in the constellation Scorpius. At 13.7 billion years old, it's just slighly (~1 billion years) younger than the universe itself. Get more info from HubbleSite"
Now that IS impressive!
NASA has found the oldest known planet in a globular star cluster in the constellation SCOrpius.
Go back to your planet Darl!
I'm sure the *New York Times* runs for cover everytime /. links one of it's stories. I heard they just upgraded from 128k DSL to 384k cable, so maybe they can handle it this time. If they can't you have them covered, don't you?
And in case the comment db holding his slashmirror gets slashed:
Oldest Planet Is Revealed, Challenging Old Theories By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
In new observations of a distant region of primitive stars, astronomers have found the oldest known planet, a huge gaseous object almost three times as old as Earth and nearly as old as the universe itself...
Just kidding.
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In an interview, the planet attributed its longevity to never smoking or drinking and eating a balanced diet of meteorites and cosmic dust. However, the planet suffers intermittently from Alzheimer's, and currently believes itself to be the Imperial Death Star.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
it's just slighly (~1 billion years) younger than the universe itself
Is it just me or should that read older
I always figured you could tell how old planets were by how universe-weary and crotchety they were. "You damn kids! Read the sign! STAY OFF THE GAS CLOUD!" I guess red shift works, though. And it does fill the holes in my theory. Out of curiosity, isn't it against the odds for the planet to still be around?
If this planet or its satellites were populated by a new species, they could litterally be called "older than dirt"
Learn something new.
You glance at the title and see "Oldest patent discovered" and wonder what it was for and who's trying to make money from it.
It's a four step process.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
We can make educated guesses, but in the end we're better off guessing low. I wouldn't say The universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus 200 million years. I would say she doesn't look a day over 8 million years old....and then change the subject.
Seriously, Don't take anything I say seriously.
Actually they heard it complain how the younger planets don't give it any respect these days. Don't get it started on those whipper-snapper black holes eating up everything in sight.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
How do they know the universe is 14.7 billion years old?
Simple. They cut it in half and count the rings....
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Well it has to be believable, or she won't buy it ...
... and 6000 years is just too unbelievable for a monkey like me.
Seriously, Don't take anything I say seriously.