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'Super Earth' Discovered at Nearby Star
Space.com ^
| 8/25/04
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 08/25/2004 3:27:13 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: missyme
There were lots of ice clouds in the sky.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:19:07 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)
To: swilhelm73
It's just a matter of time and improved telescopes and techniques. There are a lot of earth size planets, have to be. Probably this one we are on is uniquely just right for us. Invoking the Anthropic Principle AKA Goldilocks.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:19:16 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: DannyTN
And it was viewable on tuesday night! I think something or somebody is setting the stage for a major world event to happen, something weird is going on in the skies
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:19:19 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: Old Professer
On Tuesday? What are ice clouds?
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:19:56 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: missyme
setting the stage NASA dropped another hint about Mars today. They want to be sure they are right, though.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:20:38 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: RightWhale
So something BIG is happening with Mars? and they are not giving us the whole story?
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: coconutt2000
they were just surprise they found something that is about as heavy as Uranus.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:24:20 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(Save Private Hamster! F'ing Kerry.)
To: Larry Lucido
"Plus, at 14 times the size of earth, gravity would be a bitch.
I wouldn't even want to get out of bed in the morning!" You probably couldn't get out bed there if you wanted too.
Consider: If you weighed 170lbs on Earth, you'd weigh 14 X 170lbs = 2,380lbs
on the new planet -- over a ton! No human could take the gravity of that place.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:24:46 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: RightWhale
"NASA dropped another hint about Mars today." What was the hint? What did Nasa say?
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:26:48 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: missyme
They are talking about methane and ammonia in the atmosphere. The only mechanism they know of that would sustain ammonia in the atmosphere is lifeforms now living. Possibly methane, too. UV from the sun would dissociate these compounds.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:27:23 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: tet68
"elections every forty days."
Under CFR, no one could ever run ads.
To: missyme
Cirrus; they occur above 20,000 feet and can be thin and wispy or dense and translucent.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:28:58 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(If they win, it will be because we've become too soft.)
To: Joe Hadenuf
Fantastic! In the next twenty years, they will be discovering *thousands* of planets orbiting thousands of stars.Yes, and the Democrats will support this research, if for no other end than to locate and register new "illegal aliens" to vote for them.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:29:50 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: StormEye
Leonard David article. Seems to be some debate going on within NASA.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:30:06 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: Old Professer
I don't think that is what I saw with the stars on tuesday night..What did you see?
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:31:16 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: RightWhale
What does that mean for the earth?
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:31:51 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: missyme
What does that mean for the earth? That might be a big deal for some of our social and political systems.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:34:03 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: swilhelm73
Based on the orbital speed and the gravitational mass, I would assume those rapidly aging super earthlings would be short and squashed with a bad temper based on the heat.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:34:45 PM PDT
by
Henchman
(I Hench, therefore I am!)
To: RightWhale
Very interesting Article....
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:35:06 PM PDT
by
missyme
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To: swilhelm73
So this is what passes as habitable to these scientists? You can get burnt to a crisp and dizzy on the same day.
At least it's not a black hole.
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posted on
08/25/2004 4:36:20 PM PDT
by
snooker
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