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Scientists Find Solar System Like Ours
mlimber writes "The NYTimes has up a story about the discovery of a solar system that is analogous to ours. Of the 250 or so exoplanets found thus far, 'few of them are in systems that even faintly resemble our own. In many cases, giant Jupiter-like planets are whizzing around inside the orbit of Mercury,' whereas in this new system, 'a planet about two-thirds of the mass of Jupiter and another about 90 percent of the mass of Saturn are orbiting a reddish star about half the mass of the Sun, at about half the distances that Jupiter and Saturn circle our own Sun.' The researchers used gravitational microlensing to detect the planets, and two of the lead authors of the paper to be published in Science are amateur astronomers, one of whom describes herself as 'an ordinary New Zealand mother.'"
A world populated by 3 foot tall humans! How cute!
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
Will children of aliens born in this system react when they leave the red sun of OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, and grow up with the Yellow sun of Earth?
(/me gets a whisper in the ear...)
Umm, err, ahh, I gotta go now.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
How does an ordinary mother from New Zealand get her hands on a microwavey optical device thingy?
It's actually very similar to ours, except the planets are all out of order and all the people there have, for some unknown reason, goatees.
A PC and a watch aren't very similar, but a PC and a laptop are, even if they're different scales. One could also assume, from knowing that they're somewhat similar, that the laptop might contain some of the same components such as an HDD, RAM and a modem/ethernet/wifi device.
The same applies here.
My god... it's full of laptops ?!I moderate "-1, Fool"
We've all known that mothers can see things no else has managed to prove.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
They welcome their new terrestrial overlords.
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
If there is a solar system like ours, then it might mean there is a planet in it that supports a sentient life form. These life forms may have formed societies, and with that oppositional groups. And there are oppositional groups, there may be an imbalance of power present. To take it further, one side may resort to guerrilla warfare as a way of evening up the sides. And if they resort to guerrilla warfare, then they are clearly nothing but a bunch of damn jihadists.
When does the invasion start?
So do you live with your ego in the center of your "ego system", or do you merely bask in its glow from one of the planets that orbits it?
Yes it is, but it only costs about $27 million.
There is ONLY one Solar System in this Galaxy. Solar System means a star system with Sol as it star. Please, science writes learn basic science. Tim S