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Mysterious Planet May Be Cruising For a Bruising
sciencehabit writes "Something is orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut in the constellation known as the Southern Fish, but no one knows exactly what it is. New observations carried out last year with the Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the mysterious object, known as Fomalhaut b, is traveling on a highly elongated path, but they haven't convincingly nailed down its true nature. But if it is a planet, as one team of astronomers thinks, we may be in for some celestial fireworks in 2032, when Fomalhaut b starts to plough through a broad belt of debris that surrounds the star and icy comets within the belt smash into the planet's atmosphere."
Meanwhile, astronomers recently announced the discovery of the most Earth-like exoplanet yet seen, which orbits a G-type star, has a radius 1.5 times that of Earth and a year of about 242 days.
Thats no planet.
At least now we know around which star is Alderaan.
_Everything_ has already happened by the time you've seen it. So what?
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With it's unprecedented ability to plow a path the planetary debris belt without losing suction, it must be a Dyson.... sphere.
_Everything_ has already happened by the time you've seen it on Slashdot. So what?
I knew a physics undergrad that had an existential crisis when he realized everything he sees happened in the past.
I haven't had nearly enough coffee for this discussion.
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Funny, I went to art school and I'm often frustrated by the fact that most of the stuff I see hasn't happened yet.