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MOST ANCIENT, 'IMPOSSIBLE' ALIEN WORLDS DISCOVERED
Discovery News ^
| 27 March 2012
| Ian O'Neill
Posted on 03/27/2012 7:44:31 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: SunkenCiv
To: Fractal Trader
A lot of scientists like to laugh at religion. Religion? It has no answers! You want answers, then study Science!
Well, it turns out scientists are constantly finding out how little they really know about anything.
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posted on
03/27/2012 7:48:47 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
To: Fractal Trader
There’s no way (I know of) they could tell those planets weren’t captured and then spiraled in toward the star.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:02:25 PM PDT
by
backwoods-engineer
(I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
To: backwoods-engineer
The size of Jupiter and orbits every seven DAYS ?
It’s got to be close! A lot of gravitational
crap happening there.
Jeez over there besides being squished I would
be 2730 years old.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:29:55 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Fractal Trader
The Universe is much more varied, more interrelated, and more complex that we can currently imagine. At any given second of time, there are an infinite number of impossible things occurring.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:34:57 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: tet68
Jeez over there besides being squished I would be 2730 years old.... and have a hell of a tan.
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:36:55 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: backwoods-engineer
Theres no way (I know of) they could tell those planets werent captured and then spiraled in toward the star.Or that one was, one wasn't. I don't think there is a limit to the ways things can happen, or do happen, out 'there'. I think that every possibility actually occurs, somewhere, sometime. Instead of stating (with no actual evidence) that something cannot happen, I prefer to be amazed by what we find out can happen.
: )
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:43:24 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lame and ill-informed post)
To: Fractal Trader
So is the theory that planets must be born of the star they circle and reflect the heavier element content of the mother star? Then how did they escape the gravitational prison of the star?
If it is from the near-collision of another star, then why cannot the planetary material come from that star instead?
To: tet68
This sounds like the white dwarf orbiting around the red giant in the book 2001.
Perhaps we can harness this energy to convert people into whatever David Bowman had become?
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posted on
03/27/2012 9:17:20 PM PDT
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
To: Fractal Trader
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posted on
03/27/2012 9:25:37 PM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(She turned me into a Newt...)
To: Fractal Trader
Why are we waisting money looking for planets with an abundance of heavy elements? Lets skip all of that and find the planet where those green-skin Orion slave girls are.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:01:11 PM PDT
by
NavyCanDo
(You can take an idiot out of Chicago, but you canÂ’t take the Chicago out of an idiot!)
To: Pharmboy
"The buds that were growing in the Aliens' hydroponics lab were this big!"
"Can you see my eyes?"
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:20:14 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Fractal Trader
They're Metal Poor and AncientMetal poor and ancient is no way to go through life, son.
To: Pharmboy
Londo's got Giorgio beat. He's got the hair AND he is an Alien:
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:24:16 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Fractal Trader
First Gen star having not gone thru the Nova/Supernova fuel cycle. What sort of satellites would you expect to orbit such stars? Rocky/Metal planets? You should have gas giants.
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:28:56 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: Hoosier-Daddy
Yes, but you've never seen Giorgio in full Centauri Prime regalia............You never know :^)
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:33:49 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
To: Fractal Trader
When I think of the size of the universe it gives me the creeps. Is there no end? It just keeps going and going and going and .....
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posted on
03/27/2012 10:41:05 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
( "It happened. And we let it happen. - Peter Griffin, Family Guy)
To: Fractal Trader
This poses a very interesting question, and a conundrum. Give them a little time and they will pull some sort of reasoning for this out of their hats. They will try to figure out some way in their wildest imaginations that this could possibly have happened, decide that since they came up with this very extremely remote, but possible answer to the question that it therefore must be the way it happened because, after all, it is the only thing that they could come up with to explain it. Soon it will be in all of the scientific articles as nearly a fact, if not a fact, as to how these planets came about. Most will be convinced of it, mainly because they want to be.
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posted on
03/27/2012 11:11:17 PM PDT
by
Bellflower
(The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
To: ClearCase_guy
I read a story a while back that polled scientists and surprisingly a overwhelming majority of scientist believe intelligent design. One scientist saying that the deeper they studied the more they were convinced that there is an order in the universe that just can,t be happenstance.
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