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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"
This isn't as offtopic as it sounds, in the movie, Beavis says "that's not that old really", and seeing as the story is about an old planet, it's at least +2 funny.
So..why not go the whole hog and link to the printer/ad hater-friendly version?
I didn't RTFA, but if it's a gas giant, I can compare it to my father in law and see which spews off the oldest hot air...
-B
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that cheese in my fridge is older still.
And GNAA is as lame as TrollKore!
YOU FAIL IT!
But probably still more reliable. BSD is faster and more stable.
A station wagon carrying backup tapes could transfer 222 zettabytes. Now that's a lot of porn.
This is science. If you have several possible methods of measuring things, try them all and look for inconsistencies. It's how the age of the Earth was first understood: the Victorians started to understand geological processes and understood that to weather rocks would take longer than the then current age for the Earth. Faced with a choice between a calculation done by a mad Irish bishop based on a bad translation of a book done by desert nomads, and evidence collected by geologists from all over the Earth, the part of the human race with brains went with the geologists. That's called scientific method.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
Props to Dragon Warrior and old school RPGs!
"Funny" doesn't give you karma...