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Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own
Smivs writes "Astronomers from St Andrews University in the UK have discovered a planetary system which looks much like our own. Dr Martin Dominik told BBC news: 'We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. The newfound planetary system, which orbits the star OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, is more compact than our own and is about five thousand light-years away. The OGLE planets were found using a technique called gravitational micro-lensing, in which light from the faraway planets is bent and magnified by the gravity of a foreground object, in this case a another star.'" Update: 04/08 12:26 GMT by Z : This story is talking about a subject we have already discussed.
dupe
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/2052251, come on. It's not so hard to look 5 posts back in time.
It's time to realise that Abble's products are the biggest abomination these days. Just say NO to the dumb iAbble way!!
Another one?
My Karma: ran over your Dogma
StrawberryFrog
How lazy can you get? I mean, come on.
The second was supposed to go to the other earth. It was an honest mistake you frigtard.
Just callin' it like I see it.
printer!!!
This post is not a dupe. We are just in a parrellel universe...
Trying to install linux on my microwave, but keep getting a kernel panic...
Redundant stories, Dupes, angst among the faithful!
More, after these messages.
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Aliens !! Let's have them over for a POOL PARTY !! I heard Space Girls are Easy !! even for
Come on, the other story is still on the front page!
... Previous Story. Now here's Tom with the weather.
No, no record.
Look here (The thread is discussing a trupe)
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168794&cid=14071548
There are more but this has some sort of evidence..
liqbase
I wanted to post this in the morning, but was too late. :(
NOW IS MY CHANCE!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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Here's the original from April 8:
[slashdot.org]http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/2052251 [slashdot.org]
Anonymous Coward
in a few years they discovered gravitational micro-mirroring and it turned out we were looking at ourselves?
Wow, if they are finding so many solar systems like our own (2 in a 24-hr period), then there simply must be life out there...
Now if only there were INTELLIGENT life at the slashdot "offices"...
(sigh!)
(Captcha is "nothing"... hrmmmm.)
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
owww GOD!! why did you make more "sol" like systems???
the holy book says were 6000 years old and were special to you........
(can the god crap please stop now... joke is 2000 years old Hahaha....) - personal opinion
seriously were not special were surrounded with sol like systems and who knows maybe "life but not as we know it".
if we can find "life" does that mean that "GOD/ALLAH" thing is of the rails???
Whoever approves articles is at least supposed to read the front page don't you think? The article quoted isn't even from a different source, its the exact same BBC link.
Silly posters on Slashdot, Earth 2 posted this story a SECOND TIME on the front page of Earth 1's slashdot.
Configure your router to block all Earth 2 IPs.
before the original got bumped from my 8 article rss. That is an impressive new low.
this is not a dupe... its like the fifth time its been posted!!!
can we introduce maditory spam/hoxzoring to ppl who post the same things again and again?
...slashdot readers discover article similar to this one. Even as close as six degrees of separation....
Surprised someone else hasn't already said this?!
First no April 1st jokes and now a dupe of a story that is still on the main damn page.. Slashdot is dieing.
indeed... a dupe solar system.
^[:wq!
deja ZONK!
But fercryinoutloud, this one's still on the front page!
I know you guys don't do any fact checking, but is it too much to ask that you skim the front page of your own site to make sure the article's not already been posted?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a lightly work based slacking device?
which is totally what she said
Seen in a gigantic quantum multidimensional space mirror.
I bet that if you tune up your telescopes you can see yourself in the mirror. (that or a big sign "we also used to have a large hadron collider").
That would make it a tripe surely and not a trupe?
dupe derives from DUP-licate
tripe derives from TRIP-licate
Donk
Just two comments up!
You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a heavy work based slacking device?
There, fixed that for you. And yes, I'm at work right now ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
...my heart goes out to 'em.
In related news, a team of physicists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have developed a new way to perform radial velocity measurements to unprecedented precision. The current state-of-the art can achieve a precision of about 60 cm/s, enough to say, observe a Jupiter-class planet (such as the one pointed out in this article). However, this new method should be able to achieve a precision of about 1 cm/s, enough to observe an Earth-class planet.
The press release is available here:
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/press/2008/pr200808.html.
The journal article the press release refers to is "available" (subscription required) here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7187/pdf/nature06854.pdf.
The gist of the approach is to use a "laser frequency comb [combined with] a Fabry-Perot filtering cavity" to provide an improved, consistent calibration source. Strangely enough, it appears that spectroscopy is not (currently) limited by the resolving power of the spectrometer; rather it is limited by quality of the calibration source.
You mean your work involves all of the fields covered on /. ? I don't think I could get away with reading articles on games all day, but the articles on security matters and such usually have some useful insights and ideas - like the large discussion on password security I was reading yesterday, which is always work related for an IT department, but I did really have some other things I should probably have done first :P
which is totally what she said
I hope the advancement of 'Science' by our OGLE star system brothers is progressing at a somewhat higher rate than here..
...that the "other" solar system is just a warped reflection of our own, or worse: an evil twin solar system...
Gee, you must be new here... let me spell it out for you:
There. That's the way we always used to do it.
Oh don't get me wrong. My boss has asked about /. before. It's a "trade journal", don't you know? ;)
but I did really have some other things I should probably have done firstDitto.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Wasn't that the tripe joke that was already duped in two tripes?
Does this turn it from dupe tripe joke to tripe tripe joke?
(My head hurts)
OMG Its happening! ...again! ...again! ...again!
did our astronomers see their astronomers peering back as us?
So my article was the same as someone elses. Who cares! We almost certainly posted this item simultaneously and two different authors picked up on them. Yes the front page could have been checked better, but I can be sloppy, you're probably sloppy sometimes and the Guys at /. are surely allowed to be a bit sloppy sometimes too. Come on, they do a great site...cut them a bit of slack. Smivs.
Smivs on the intertubes!
Prediction: The following tests will now fail in slashdot comments although they worked until recently. Specific failure is that the item number or bullet is not displaying.
Test of numbered list:
- fust
- skund
- toid
- fawth
Test of bullets:This is happening under Firefox v2.0.0.13 running under bog standard WinXP Pro, and under IE v7 on the same machine. Source shows that <ol>, etc, are present as expected.
Is anyone else seeing this?
More importantly, has anyone come up with a good workaround for the "profit" business plans under these conditions?!!
Tis presumably the CSS formatting that they are using? It's the same on my machine (XP Pro/FF 3 beta 5)
which is totally what she said
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and
are deprecated.
Does this mean if their star goes Nova... ours does too from the shockwave?? You know like in congress where you can hear people whispering on the other side of the room because of the shape...
Wait wasn't there just some weird event with the sun... did some smart people track the energy from this new solar system?
1) Post AC
2) Do nothing but troll
3) ???
4) Fuck karma
FYI, I agree - the recent changes suck!!
Can somebody please set up a poll so we can vote on how much they hate the new changes and finally convince Taco to stop fucking around?
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!!
*tumbleweed*
It's not just list stuff that's missing. I don't seem to see moderations anywhere any more. I looked at a couple of my messages yesterday that were moderated, and all I saw was the number; the list of moderations was nowhere to be seen.
I looked on several browsers on my Mac, including SeaMonkey, FireFox, Safari and Opera, and none of them showed the moderations.
I mean, how am I to get upset and indignant about a "troll" rather than the "funny" that I expected, when I can't see the actual moderation?
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
When I was in school, we just had to memorize the names of nin planets.
Now there are about 250!
When is Slashdot going to implement the "X days since we have duped an article" sign? Better set that back to zero.
When is Slashdot going to add a -1 moderation option for people who actually RTFA?
We've been visiting other forums.
Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.