Near Earth-Sized Planet Discovered
I wonder if they have bowling alleys? ;D
Kepler-21b: Near Earth-Sized Planet Discovered 352 Light-Years Away
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory announced on Wednesday the discovery of Kepler-21b, a new planet that's close to the size of earth and is only about 352 light years away.
"By astronomical standards, that's right next door," Katy Garmany, the Deputy Press Officer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, told HuffPost.
Astronomers frequently discover new planets (according to Time magazine, we're up to over 2,000), but Garmany said that what's exciting about Kepler 21-b is that the planet is relatively Earth-sized. While its mass is about 10 times the size of our planet, its radius is only 1.6 times the size of Earth's.
Check it out - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/kepler-21b-new-planet-discovered_n_1121938.html
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I am awestruck by this.
"By astronomical standards, that's right next door," Katy Garmany
dont fancy trying to borrow their hedge clippers though!
who wants to go? we could make a day trip out of it. :)
Dudeism: the final frontier. These are the semis of the starship Duderprise (if you're not into the whole brevity thing). Its five-year flashback: to explore strange new coitus, to seek out new female forms and new In And Out Burgers, to boldly bowl where no dude has bowled before. Fuckin' eh!
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...those are good burgers, Walter. Shut the fuck up, Donny.
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 03, 2011, 04:06:50 AM
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What is that? Some kind of Eastern thing?
Quote from: Landshark on December 03, 2011, 05:34:41 AM
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 03, 2011, 04:06:50 AM
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What is that? Some kind of Eastern thing?
Perhaps a captured alien spacecraft? ;D
Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed..........
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.
The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.
It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0".
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Check out - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16040655
UK radio is only just beginning to report this (what are they trying to cover up?)
plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.
But that's just like...my opinion man.
/sarcasm
Quote from: Landshark on December 06, 2011, 06:54:57 AM
plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.
But that's just like...my opinion man.
/sarcasm
Ah the old
Stark Conspiracy (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Stark.html?id=UbhHHc7i758C&redir_esc=y) theory!
Quote from: meekon5 on December 06, 2011, 08:05:38 AM
Quote from: Landshark on December 06, 2011, 06:54:57 AM
plans to make earth prime a garbage dump and send the best and brightest to earth 2 as an experiment in eugenics.
But that's just like...my opinion man.
/sarcasm
Ah the old Stark Conspiracy (http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Stark.html?id=UbhHHc7i758C&redir_esc=y) theory!
;D Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 06, 2011, 09:36:19 PM
;D Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.
Or (as H2G2, The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, is mentioned elsewhere recently) Douglas Adams wonderful idea of the
"B" Ark (http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm).
Quote from: meekon5 on December 07, 2011, 06:01:31 AM
Quote from: DigitalBuddha on December 06, 2011, 09:36:19 PM
;D Or Google's "Plan B" ...buy a new planet and move everyone there.
Or (as H2G2, The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, is mentioned elsewhere recently) Douglas Adams wonderful idea of the "B" Ark (http://www.geoffwilkins.net/fragments/Adams.htm).
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That's why I've always been a little funny about the cleanliness of my telephone :P
Quote from: Rev. Ed C on December 07, 2011, 10:09:21 AM
That's why I've always been a little funny about the cleanliness of my telephone :P
It's vitally important to have a crew of competent telephone sanitizers on any planet you are going to settle on. ;D
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Spinal Tap A to Zed
Telephone Sanitizing: After Tap's 1984 break-up, Derek attempted to follow in the footsteps of his father, Donald "Duck" Smalls, by returning to Nilford and apprenticing at SaniFone while his dad recovered from a hernia. "I'd come in and say, 'I'm Derek, Mr. Smalls' boy, here to sanitize your phone.' And they'd say, 'You're sure you know how to do it? We don't want germs on the instrument!' I'd say, 'I know, thank you very much, I've been trained by me dad.'
But, actually, when they weren't looking, I'd spit in it just to show 'em who's boss." (MD2) As Derek recalled year later, SaniFone used an industrial strength spray that also was used to clean toilets in coal mines. (WP) In the mid-90s, the first telephone sanitizer in the United States recently attempted to set up shop.
The June 1995 issue of Harper's reprinted parts of a brochure distributed during the previous year by B. Spencer Sutton of Brooklyn, who was testing the market feasibility of a line of sanitary telephone headset covers. Sutton noted that telephone receivers are "disease- and germ-covered" and that "considering the damage they can cause, they should be at the top of the list of things to use with caution and protection."
He then listed 10 questions to ask yourself about your telephone receiver, including "Would you use a handset with an accumulation of earwax and hair oil on the ear cup or saliva and food particles on the mouth cup?"
Check out - http://www.spinaltapfan.com/
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