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Newly Formed Solar System
xPsi writes "An article in New Scientist reports that a team of astronomers from UC Berkeley and NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center have used the Hubble space telescope to image a dust
ring in orbit around Fomalhaut, a nearby star about 25 light years away.
The ring 'offers the best evidence yet that a nearby star is circled by a
newly formed solar system.' Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point,
the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of
Sauron. One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them..."
Ours was invented first! We own the patent! You think inventing a solar system is easy? Trivial and non-obvious? Then why haven't you created one yourself?
Prior art? I can't seeeeeeee you! Can you show that your solar system was invented before our solar system was?
Yeah, I thought so.
All your solar system are belong to us. Uh huh. Don't waste your time crying cause I can't hear the tears. All those heavenly bodies? Time for me to get jiggy with each and every one! I got my pulsar right here!
My IP is bigger than your IP!
(and to think Bozo patents the "click" and Jobs patents the "wheel". I mean, c'mon guys, keep up. I'm talking planets here! What do you got? A forest and a fruit? -1, I'm-Not-Interested-Anymore.)
I'd say it's at least 25 years old. Pfft.
You need to speed up your R&D cycle to compete in today's market, Mr. astronomer guys.
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
Good luck getting the ring to that Mount Doom...
Don't trust any concentration of power.
I wonder if that would be a good spot to post my flyer:
**Missing!**
One solar sail. Shiny silver, 10 stories tall, 5 microns wide. Lost near the Sol area, but may be near Formalhaut in about 500 years. Answers to "401.525 MHz". Very dear to our hearts; reward offered.If sighted, please contact the Planetary Society at 626-793-5100.
What a crazy random happenstance!
Come on, even Slashdot is usually better at reporting news that's RECENT! I mean, how can you call something that formed 25 years ago _news_? Bah!
What if the Earth is some kind of Art Planet, and what we do here really is copied "out there", or at least observed and acted upon, in the same way as in Galaxy Quest.
Lets face it, that sure does look like the Eye Of Sauron and it sure wasn't discovered before a couple of million beings on Planet Earth saw the movie and started dreaming about it or whatever.
... than the brown eye of Goatse.
IT'S A TRAP!
a LOTR solar system? What's next, the Star Wars solar system? Oh wait, my bad, that was a long, long time ago.
Lovecraft claimed that some of the Great Old Ones lived on or near Fomalhaut. Maybe it is not the eye of Sauron, but something far worse.
And now that we can see it, it can see us. And it will come for us in our dreams. And lick the sweet icor from our brains.
Enya! Enya! Cthulhu fthagan!
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Oddly enough, from the Earth's vantage point, the ring also happens to resemble The Eye of Sauron. One Ring to rule them all, one Ring to find them...
... a latte with that swirly cream, a sundae with a cherry on top, a toilet seat, anything vaugely circular ...
Zonk, to you everything looks like "The Eye of Sauron"
It's called Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder and you need to get help before you get on that white ship with Gandalf.
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