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32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope
the4thdimension writes "An article on CNN notes that 32 exoplanets have been discovered using a new Chilean telescope. The telescope is capable of detecting movements of 2.1mph (comparable to a slow walking pace). These 32 new planets give the telescope a total of 75 planets it has discovered, out of the 400 discovered using all methods employed by astronomers. This places the HARPS system as the world's foremost exoplanet hunter."
Slow News Day.
Seriously, are any of these 32 new planets at all interesting? It was great that we've figured out how to detect the existence of these planets, but even the chilean team doesn't bother to single out any of them as being out of the ordinary.
Now that VASIMR technology seems to be coming of age, isn't it time to do a survey of everything within say, 20 light years to find stuff that may be potentially habitable?
While that's out of the question, an unmanned nuke-powered probe could possibly survey such a system in one life-time if sufficiently funded.
which will never happen as long as Obama can buy votes with a health care plan. hey, after social security the Democratic party needed a fresh new face on how to get people dependent on a government program so that running for office on the platform of discontinuing that program is political suicide. so we get the mess known as social security that will collapse under its own weight, and soon, if it is not reformed, yet no one has the balls to reform it because it would mark the end of his or her career in politics. nice going. why you guys think health care will be any different when these people have already shown their true colors is amazing to me. it's like that definition of insanity, you keep doing the same thing expecting a different result, because THIS time you're all hopeful and THIS time you want change blah blah blah... idiots.