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Recently Discovered Habitable World May Not Exist
sciencehabit better let Greg Dean know that "Two weeks ago, U.S.-based astronomers announced the discovery of the first Goldilocks planet circling another star: just the right size and just the right temperature to harbor alien life. But yesterday at an exoplanet meeting in Turin, Italy, Switzerland-based astronomers announced that they could find no trace of the prized planet in their observations of the same planetary system."
Neither did Goldilocks, the kid.
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I hate being bipolar; it's awesome!
Uhh ohh, I think the earthlings are looking our way, quick hide!!
Crap they saw us. Keep hiding maybe they'll go away.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Glad this story came up before we launched a probe for a 400,000 year flight. Wow would that have been a letdown.
"Attention: Discovery by 5078-G-3-BLUE confirmed. All cloking screens up!"
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For that off-topic rant, we are going to send you to that planet. If by chance it's not really there, too bad. Bring a jacket.
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Their planet was cleared to make way for an interstellar highway. They should have visited the local planning office!
Be relentless!
That doesn't really sound like Carl Sagan at all.
Yeah, if Carl Sagan were alive, he'd say
"HELP!!! GET ME OUT OF THIS BOX!!! IT IS SO DARK AND COLD!!!! HELP!!!!"
(stupid lameness filter) Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
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"It's not on the charts... what's going on?"
"Our position is correct, except... no Goldilocks..."
"What do you mean? Where is it?"
"That's what I'm trying to tell you, kid. It ain't there."
You're a clueless prick.
I wish the amount of letters someone could type in a reply was based on whether or not the person read anything past the head line. That I would never see this nonsense again. Not that i expect much from someone who calls themselves a 'windows expert'.
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A+B+C, its easy as 1-2-3...
Sometimes getting a clue takes that long also ;-)
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A+B+C, its easy as 1-2-3...
If they've got it wrong it'll put the Doh! in Doe-Rae-Me!
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"Sir, about that planet, we've detected a flash of light."
"Captain, are you telling me they're testing nucular bombs?"
"No sir, just a flash of l--"
"Do you have any idea what the public will do when they discover the aliens are testing WMDs and we have no plan for dealing with them?"
"Sir, I was mistaken. There was no flash of light."
"Not good enough, captain."
"Sir, I was mistaken. There was no planet."
"That's more like it."
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We finally found the planet of precise timekeeping, highly secure banking, immaculate knives and good-ass chocolate and they put out a report denying its existence. Touche, aliens.
I swear it was there a minute ago.