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Hubble Discovers a Hundred New Planets
Spudley writes "The BBC is reporting that the Hubble Telescope has discovered over a hundred new exoplanets - a number which almost doubles the total known. Apparently they are also expecting to be able to analyse the atmospheres of up to 20% of them. The discovery will be confirmed within the next seven days."
I wonder if one of them is the planet of the apes.....Oh wait staue of libetry AGGGGGGGh that was earth!!!
A hundred new specs of dust on the lens.
http://siokaos.org/
Good think O'Keefe is going to let it fall out of the sky, because I want to have a time when Hubble doesn't see something that vastly increases our knowlege of the surrounding universe again...
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I think they've discovered the galactic salvage yard where the empire discards worn out death stars.
Clearly its just trying to pad its resume now that the axe has fallen. -C
Yes now I definitely see that we need to be rid of this useless piece of space junk. It does nothing apparently but further our knowledge and increase our view of the universe. Worthless piece of junk.
Are they still planning on scrapping this thing? That would be sad.
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The real exciting news is that they've only confirmed 18 Starbucks locations on those 100 new planets...
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hmmm.... I wonder if they have oil.
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It's a good thing that we are going to let the Hubble fall into disrepair. All of these new discoveries mean that we will have to keep revising our Science textbooks and that is an expense that our school systems cannot afford. At least when that damn telescope stops working we will can content that we know all that it is possible to know without the burden of having to keep up with these new "facts."
The Tools Of Ignorance wanna be a tool?
So now all those who have criticised Hubble should be sorry. They have to eat Hubble pie.
Well any of them are indeed "M Class" planets then they should at least have rodden-berries.
Don't you see? It's a big left wing liberal conspiracy to get NASA to continue to repair and support that aging hulk of a telescope!
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No signs of intelligent life, then?
The discovery will be confirmed within the next seven days. ...when they return our emails
What practical reason would they have for teaching (what little they know) about the contants of a planet's atmosphere in another galaxy.
if they travel there somday they will need to know how to properly adjust their breathing apperatus. That is, if they recover from suspended animation successfully.
That's what I misread this story headline as. I need to start reading some other websites...
But what's Eddie doing in the accretion disk? I thought he was in the space-time continuum?
credo quia absurdum
The real exciting news is that they've only confirmed 18 Starbucks locations on those 100 new planets...
Yeah, two locations each on 9 planets... Right across the street from one another...
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