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Tatooine-like Planet Discovered
ATP writes "CNN is reporting that a planet has been discovered in a solar system with 3 suns. The observation brings into doubt the theory stating that planets form from the dust orbiting around a single sun. The discovery also resulted in a new method of searching for extrasolar planets-- until now most searching focused only on single-sun systems."
This is not the planet we're looking for.
Move along.
Move along.
Start a happiness pandemic
Don't let George Lucas see this. He'll want to change the next release of episode 4 and have Luke looking over 3 suns setting.
"Really, I had always wanted it to be 3 suns, and now we have the technology to produce my original vision"
-FL
I guess the galaxy isn't so far away after all
Ask me about repetitive DNA
More like Mike, Robbie, and Chip :P
moo.
THE SPICE!!!???
No love for Pitch Black?
Besides, Vin Diesel can kick Chewbacca's ass. He can do anything.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
....that's a Death Star in orbit.
Table-ized A.I.
You clearly have never been around Uncle Owen when he's eating baked beans, have you?
...a solar system with... three suns!
Dude, I've trouble getting to the bathroom which at this moment seems far, far away.
I'd say a 149 kajillion light years is definitely far, far away.
Not only that; it doesn't even have a single tattoo on it!
You gather a collection of signs saying "Please do not drink the emperor"
Consultancy: If you're not part of the solution, there's money to be made in prolonging the problem
Tatooine doesnt exist, does this?
I'm just waiting for the first DS9 like wormhole to the delta quadrant to be discovered. Hell I'd settle for the most nasal starship captain that doesn't have a clue.
* You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
* The womp rats are about 2 meters in length.
* The sand is coarse and rough and irritating, and gets everywhere.
"If the planet's environment is life-friendly, then it's only a matter of time before life evolves on it."
And you base this one what? An empirical basis of exactly 1 instance? Pretty presumptious of you.
Not really. Since life evolved once, the probability of life evolving is greater than zero. Ergo, given arbitrarily sufficient time, the probability of life having evolved will approach 100%. Unfortunately, time required for life to evolve may exceed the lifespan of even the universe. The grandparent post is technically correct, but it's not a particularly useful form of correct.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
You ever notice how, even in Star Trek, people have to WARP to every place they want to go? This implies that space is like the United States. Between where you are and where you want to be there's alot of nothing. I.e. a drive from New York to LA gets you about 3 major cities and an assload of desolate countryside.
So to summarize, there are habitable planets out there, but none of them are close to us or close to each other.