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Are We Alone in the Universe?

Posted by michael on from the lonely-out-there dept.

cynic10508 writes "CNN is running a story about how ours might be a unique solar system. Of the 100+ systems currently known to contain planets, all contain seemingly only gas giants. However, this may be a case of current technology and techniques being unable to detect planets similar to Earth." There are also BBC and Space.com stories.

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  1. df by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2nd post

  2. cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!

  3. First Post??? by techno-vampire · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How I managed to get the first post without subscribing, I'll never know, but I may have managed it. I'd like to use it to comment that it's a tad premature to say our solar system is unique in having planets that aren't gas giants if all we know how to detect in other systems are gas giants. Let's wait 'till we know how to detect Earth-like planets and see what we find.

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    1. Re:First Post??? by abionnnn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I guess not. =(

    2. Re:First Post??? by techno-vampire · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, when I composed it there were no other posts. I'm a tad put out by being modded down so much as "offtopic" when I made sure to put a comment about the article into the post. Actually, I posted mostly to make the comment and the bit about maybe being first was just a side-issue. I guess some moderators automatically mod such posts down without bothering to read them, but that's their priviledge.

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  4. I agree. by mikeophile · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Gas giants are no proof of intelligent life.

  5. Yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now get back in your hole tommy or I'll get out the hose!

  6. Mod parent down - Troll ! by kulakovich · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't beeee-lieeeve you'd post that on slashdot!

    ducks behind rock, awaits 900 post slogfest.

    kulakovich

  7. Fri5t ps0t by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    of its c0re