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1 posted on 01/25/2006 5:56:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Well ... start pointing SETI towards it then !


2 posted on 01/25/2006 6:00:09 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: nickcarraway

ping


3 posted on 01/25/2006 6:01:03 PM PST by SirChas (I seem to be rapidly approaching the apex of my mediocre career)
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To: nickcarraway

220 below zero? Guess we'll have to bring our scarfs and mittens.


4 posted on 01/25/2006 6:01:11 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Hillary 2008, if elected YOU DESERVE HER (and HIM! AGAIN!))
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5 posted on 01/25/2006 6:03:37 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy (Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
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To: nickcarraway

could this be the planet of prehistoric hyannis orcinus, is there scotch underneath all that ice?


6 posted on 01/25/2006 6:03:37 PM PST by JohnLongIsland
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". . . 20,000 light-years away

Has Zephron Cochran been born yet?

7 posted on 01/25/2006 6:06:27 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: nickcarraway
220 below? How is this "more Earth-like" than anyone discovered before? Circles a red giant, is 5 times Earth's mass, and is cold: must be Krypton, Kal-El should show up in another 3000 years


8 posted on 01/25/2006 6:11:58 PM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: nickcarraway

Residents of Roswell, New Mexico, will be happy to hear this.


9 posted on 01/25/2006 6:12:13 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Sam Alito Deserves To Be Confirmed)
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To: nickcarraway

Cool, do they know if there's any good skiing? ;)


10 posted on 01/25/2006 6:12:16 PM PST by Hawk1976 (If a man says he is going to kill you, believe him.)
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Found: one Earth-like planet - Nature 1/25/06
Astronomers use gravity lensing to spot homely planets.

"...More than 170 planets have been discovered outside our Solar System. Astronomers usually detect them by watching how they make their parent star wiggle, a technique known as the Doppler method. This is ideal if you are looking for massive planets orbiting very close to their star, which induce a lot of wobble."

"But there is no way this can be used to find small, blue-green planets approximately 150 million kilometres from a yellow sun. It is simply not sensitive enough, says Didier Queloz, an astronomer from Geneva Observatory in Switzerland who was part of the team that found the first extrasolar planet, just 11 years ago."

"The new sighting relies on an effect called gravitational lensing, where a massive object such as a star warps space so that it behaves like a lens. This means that it bends and slightly magnifies light from a more distant star before it reaches our telescopes. Adding a planet to the mix modifies the lensing effect by a tiny amount, just enough to work out its mass and orbit..."

11 posted on 01/25/2006 6:12:24 PM PST by concentric circles
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The planet is five times the mass of Earth, but it's still considered the smallest and coolest ever detected outside of the solar system

Scientists should really refrain from making value judgments...

12 posted on 01/25/2006 6:17:49 PM PST by mikrofon (Real cool, man)
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To: nickcarraway

cool, maybe we can jump on before earth ends up burned up as stated in another post. Earth has it's last days coming up.


14 posted on 01/25/2006 6:20:21 PM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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SPACE GEEK ALERT!

If I can thread poach a little... I know some of the people on this thread are already "FOLDING" but for those who aren't, there is now a major project by FReepers and others regarding protein folding and distributed computing. The effort is dedicated to Ronald Reagan.

http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120

FReepers are ranked nationally (top 360 almost) in our efforts to help this massive science project. Please join us if you would like to contribute and "Fold one for the Gipper". Here is one of several threads that can help point you to start donating your unused CPUs if you are interested.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1562606/posts

Callin' all SPACE GEEKS! JOIN us!


16 posted on 01/25/2006 6:22:38 PM PST by Drango ( No animals were harmed while producing this post)
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any thoughts?


18 posted on 01/25/2006 6:50:31 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: nickcarraway

Can we send the socialists there to create their utopia (and leave the rest uf us alone)?


19 posted on 01/25/2006 6:53:03 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie because he didn't bake one.)
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To: nickcarraway

Metaluna?


24 posted on 01/25/2006 11:32:30 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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