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Just-Found Planets Near Earth's Size (3 new planets)
Washington Post ^
| 8-31-04
| Shankar Vedantam
Posted on 08/31/2004 8:42:10 PM PDT by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance
Luke warm in astronomical and geophysical terms probably means scalding...
To: Indy Pendance
To: Indy Pendance
Three planets have been discovered in other solar systems and are the closest ever found to Earth in size...The headline writer screwed up. This doesn't mean they're close to the size of Earth - in fact, they're closest to the size of Uranus and Neptune, shown here at the same scale as Earth:
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:47:21 PM PDT
by
mvpel
(Michael Pelletier)
To: Indy Pendance
one's kerry's home...
one's estrich's home...
and in 2008 hillary will be looking for one
Doogle
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:48:08 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF..408th MMS...Ubon, Thailand "69" ..."Wolfpack".night line delivery "Doogle")
To: Indy Pendance
As our telescopes become more powerful, we will discover many more planets. There are billions of planets to be found in our galaxy alone. And our galaxy is only a normal size galaxy in a constellation of millions of other galaxies. And our constellation is only an average constellation in a universe of billions of constellations.
Chances are that there are many billions of planets with intelligent life in our universe. Chances are that we will never discover each other because of the vast distances between us and the fact that the light barrier will probably never be broken, making any interstellar expeditions very difficult.
But what do I know? A hundred years ago, nobody could conceive the kind of high-tech world we live in today.
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:48:12 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Bush 53%)
To: mvpel
That's what I heard too, but this is the best article I've seen. From what I've read, the planets are over 3 times the size of earth.
To: Indy Pendance
Gad!
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Now the Democrats will be getting absentee votes from these three!
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:48:51 PM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: SamAdams76
Isn't it exciting? The next frontier. I only wish I would be around to experience this.
To: sonofatpatcher2
Instead of fencing off California (as some suggest) and making it the lib haven, let's ship the libs to their own planet.
To: Indy Pendance
That's what I heard too, but this is the best article I've seen. From what I've read, the planets are over 3 times the size of earth.Well that is "close".(think in terms of nukes not horse shoes)
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:52:44 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
(I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:53:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
To: AndrewC
I suppose talking light years you can give or take a double or triple error ... :)
To: SamAdams76
I know what you mean. When I read Claude Bernard's An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine in college (an awfully boring tome), I was struck by his assertion that astronomy could never be an experimental science.
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:56:54 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Kerry: the first self-confessed war criminal to be nominated for president. ~Mark Steyn)
To: Indy Pendance
I suppose talking light years you can give or take a double or triple error ... :)Yeah, brain surgery with a chain saw level.
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posted on
08/31/2004 8:57:01 PM PDT
by
AndrewC
(I am a Bertrand Russell agnostic, even an atheist.</sarcasm>)
To: Indy Pendance
Oh please, puh-leeze, let there be life on them. It's sooo important. Sooo necessary!
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posted on
08/31/2004 9:00:04 PM PDT
by
cookcounty
(Watch John Zippo Kerry self-immolate on national TV!!!!)
To: AndrewC
It's all relative...... Einstein...
To: cookcounty
And, it would be sooooo cool... Star Trek isn't so far fetched anymore.
To: Indy Pendance
I now have my tinfoil hat on.
To: SamAdams76
But what do I know? A hundred years ago, nobody could conceive the kind of high-tech world we live in today. I predict that tax freedom day will be on December 31st. Seriously, the discovery of quantum mechanics was the biggest influence over the last 100. But I think today we have better visiblity into the future. Even so, I hope there will be more surprises and breakthroughs that will shape the next 100 years. And then there will be evil people who try to use it to their advantage, and somebody will have to do the dirty work of defeating them as we are doing today.
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