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1 posted on
08/14/2011 11:29:55 AM PDT by
NYer
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TrES-2b races around its star at a distance of just five million kilometres (three million miles). . . This is scorchingly close when compared to Earth's 150-million-km (93-million-mile) distance from the Sun and Jupiter's 778 million kms (483 million miles) It's obviously a big charcoal briquet....
2 posted on
08/14/2011 11:36:47 AM PDT by
mikrofon
(BBR: Burnt Beyond Recognition)
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Za’ha’dum!
3 posted on
08/14/2011 11:47:37 AM PDT by
Anvilhead
(Dammit Jim, I'm an American not an American't.)
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We have been greedily swallowing the BS, and begging for more, from these people for so long that they are unashamed to say anything, and will say it with a straight face.
4 posted on
08/14/2011 11:49:01 AM PDT by
1raider1
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"It's not clear what is responsible for making this planet so extraordinarily dark," said David Spiegel of Princeton University.
How about being burnt to a crisp?
5 posted on
08/14/2011 11:51:20 AM PDT by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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"It's not clear what is responsible for making this planet so extraordinarily dark," said David Spiegel of Princeton University.
6 posted on
08/14/2011 11:51:34 AM PDT by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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8 posted on
08/14/2011 11:52:42 AM PDT by
dragonblustar
(Sarah Palin -Thaddeus McCotter 2012)
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Really interesting. Thanks for posting.
9 posted on
08/14/2011 11:55:31 AM PDT by
onedoug
(SARAH!)
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"It's not clear what is responsible for making this planet so extraordinarily dark" Boy O Boy.
It was just a short while ago that an object 63 trillion times brighter than the sun was found. Yup...63 trillion times! (I don't know how that is possible)
11 posted on
08/14/2011 12:01:48 PM PDT by
blam
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This planet is the end result of an ecological movement.
13 posted on
08/14/2011 12:07:10 PM PDT by
Defiant
(We are governed by the Oboehner party.)
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"Hmm. TrES-2b. Isn't that located in the galaxy's
southern sector?"
Inside joke for avid viewers of the original Star Trek series.
14 posted on
08/14/2011 12:07:42 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
(Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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17 posted on
08/14/2011 12:10:53 PM PDT by
blam
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Blacker than coal... sounds like Washington.
Why not call the planet... oh... Congressonia?
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"It's not clear what is responsible for making this planet so extraordinarily dark,"Romulan cloaking device.
Back in Black
20 posted on
08/14/2011 12:29:56 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Soon to be poster child planet for the final outcome of global warming.
24 posted on
08/14/2011 12:45:40 PM PDT by
Rebelbase
(Rick Perry, Democrat Chairman for Al Gore's 1988 Presidential Campaign, TX)
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Gene Wolfe, a Catholic sci-fi/fantasy writer, has a colour that is blacker than black in his Book of the New Sun series, he calls it “fuligin”.
Freegards, thanks for all the ping on FR
25 posted on
08/14/2011 12:45:40 PM PDT by
Ransomed
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They should name the planet “North Korea”
32 posted on
08/14/2011 1:16:26 PM PDT by
Husker24
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