Posted on 03/26/2014 7:59:37 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb
An international team of astronomers, led by Felipe Braga-Ribas (Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), has used telescopes at seven locations in South America, including the 1.54-metre Danish and TRAPPIST telescopes at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, to make a surprise discovery in the outer Solar System. This unexpected result raises several unanswered questions and is expected to provoke much debate. A press conference will be held in Brazil to present the new results and allow opportunities for questions. Note that all information regarding these findings is under strict embargo until 19:00 CET (15:00 BRT) on Wednesday 26 March 2014. When: The conference will be held on 26 March 2014 at 14:30 local time (BRT) and will take place in Portuguese with a summary in English. Who: The conference presenters are: Felipe Braga-Ribas, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bruno Sicardy, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France Prof. Roberto Martins, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Prof. Julio Camargo, Observatório Nacional/MCTI, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Where: The event takes place in Observatório Nacional, Auditório do Grupo de Pesquisas em Astronomia (GPA), in the GPA/LINEA Building in Rua General José Cristino, 77, Bairro de São Cristovão, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, 20921-400, Brazil.
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On Spock’s birthday of all days.
I, for one, welcome our Alien Overlords...(they certainly couldn’t do any worse the what we have now)
It’s the actual hockey stick of globull warming.
What a relief.
It’s only aliens coming to destroy the planet.
I thought it might be a giant cube telling me resistance to Obamcare is futile.
I have my towel, just in case.
Portuguese is the official language of all of Brazil. Not very obscure at all.
I want to go on record and say that this is the beginning of the end.
They’ve found a giant asteroid heading our way and we’re all gonna die.
BRB, I’m gonna go loot a Best Buy for a wicked huge flat-screen TV.
It would be nice if they would let us know sooner rather than later. I have some vacation time left that I would hate to see go to waste.
Bookmark
Obama’s birth certificate? College transcripts?
“Can’t be too important if it’s being discussed in a quaint and obscure language.”
Quaint enough to be spoken daily by a quarter of a billion people.
“They say there’s no Devil, Jim...”
Grab me a case of Heineken on your way back.
Ah! Now it all makes sense!
Pelosi’s half brain.
A Brazil announcement?
It’s a planetoid that looks like a soccer ball.
More people in South America speak Portuguese than Spanish.
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