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Jerry James Stone
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Jerry James Stone
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Comgen & Dr. Socks' love child
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Comgen & Dr. Socks' love child
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the Grey Ghost of 2010
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the Grey Ghost of 2010
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George Clymer
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George Clymer
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anomaly100Aug 24, 2010
To think that it was only a century ago when I was growing up that teachers LOL when I asked how they knew there were no more than 9 planets in the universe.
absolutelytrueAug 24, 2010
Yeah, that was a bit narrow minded, huh?
badqatAug 24, 2010
There are only 8 planets in our solar system now. Poor Pluto.
caramba421Aug 24, 2010
Well, whatever...if every cold lifeless ball of rock and ice gets to be a planet, my ex's heart also qualifies.
anomaly100Aug 25, 2010
They've always picked on poor Pluto, just because he's the smallest. It's not right I tell ya'!
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
Bulls**t! Pluto is still a planet in my eyes! >:(
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
and there were only 8 planets in the solar system a century ago...Pluto discovered 1930.
dolverAug 25, 2010
Absolutely! Pluto is still a planet. And Brontosaurus and Triceratops existed!
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
And the best way to heal the sick is to blood letting!
nhojgnosAug 25, 2010
Pluto HAS to be a planet... or else we won't get pizza.. =(
my very educated mother just served us nine ...
zalysterAug 25, 2010
My very excited mother just sexted us naughtily?
tylerelliottAug 26, 2010
My very educated mother just said uh-oh no pluto.
/colbert
masamunecyrusAug 26, 2010
My very educated mother just served us nachos.
anandmunjeSep 19, 2010
But why suddenly pluto is not remains planet?
drmangrumAug 24, 2010
You grew up a century ago?
alias1431Aug 24, 2010
http://digg.com/users/Anomaly100
davidtcAug 24, 2010
Ya, I remember him in class with me.
jektalAug 24, 2010
It says "she" is 103 right on the internet! It has to be true!
cosmicrAug 25, 2010
more to the point - she was going to school at age 3?
protodonAug 25, 2010
she's also right behind me.
anomaly100Aug 25, 2010
I lie about my age. I'm actually much older. I remember when they invented the wheel. Ahh....that was a good year.
And yes, I am right behind you sonny. Just let me get my walker and you'll see;-)
Closed AccountAug 26, 2010
yeah - at that time the dead sea already started to feel sick :P
factorof13Aug 25, 2010
Now I know you're lying. The wheel wasn't invented. It was handed to Adam by angels.. right along with microprocessors and botulism.
Closed AccountAug 28, 2010
oh btw: did the apple approve organic, or
(due to the serpent) count as proceeded ?
overridemymindAug 25, 2010
"And yes, I am right behind you sonny. Hand me my walker please?"
Heh. Hand you your Stalker Walker.
Erm... sorry, I couldn't help myself.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
tsk05Aug 24, 2010
you must have asked it differently (or your teachers were incompetent) considering no astronomer in the last century claimed there were only 9 planets. Known planets, yes.
eddiepotatoAug 25, 2010
But nobody said "we know there are no more planets."
Lots of people have always said lots of things...
duamerthraxAug 26, 2010
A friend of mines teacher once when asked about fire explained that it's the splitting of atoms. This was about first or second grade and that was when my friend first learned disrespect which today is his most prominent personality aspect.
OK I'm embellishing a little, but there's far more truth in that statement then most would admit.
zenith251Aug 24, 2010
Christians might have said that. s**t, some still do.
faithclubdotnetAug 24, 2010
@Zenith251,
I'm a Christian and I say, anything is possible with God.
I know God is real, Jesus is LORD.
I say Jesus teaches us to be good and loving to all even when others are not good and loving to us.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
meribianAug 24, 2010
You know Zenith251 winced when he read that. Dugg.
kellyAug 24, 2010
Non Christians might have said that. Shoot, some still do!
johnfluxAug 25, 2010
kelly, and of course "bad science" is defined as anything that goes against your dogma, and "incomplete" means that it disagrees with what you think.
kellyAug 25, 2010
JohnFlux, the same could be equated with you and the rest of the evolutionist believing society.
For the record, creationism isn't a "belief" any more than evolution is. The "evolution is fact" community would have you believe the former understanding rather than even consider the possibility that there is considerable evidence to support the creationism "theory."Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
johnfluxAug 25, 2010
Haha, I *knew* it. Kelly is a creationist.
Kelly there is _no_ evidence for creationism - at least, no more than the evidence for flying spaghetti monsters and Gods that create each and every snowflake.
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
Why do we have planets?
Because God said so.
/s
johnfluxAug 25, 2010
(Btw the snowflake thing wasn't totally random - I mentioned it because if you agree that God doesn't need to create each and every snowflake, then you agree that order can come out of chaotic "random" events)
boigboigAug 25, 2010
@JohnFlux,
You ask; "Why did you talk about Christians not being against science, when you disagree with Biology.."
Answer; The same reason that Ken Miller is a theist - and believes there is a God.
You state; "then you agree that order can come out of chaotic "random" events"
Snowflakes are a result of physics and chemistry. They are a PATTERN. That is not the same as the INFORMATION in DNA. which describes something other then itself.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
sabachAug 25, 2010
So Kelly, what is your "considerable evidence to support the creationism "theory"?
ausjpAug 25, 2010
There has never been a creationist hypothesis, much less a "creationist theory" (and, again, much less such a theory with greater explanatory and predictory power than evolutionary theory that accounts for all extant evidence), therefore any "evidence" you assign to support this non-existent theory is by definition useless.
... And that's without even considering that this "evidence" you will posit is non-existent anyway.
brothercheAug 25, 2010
I'm not a creationist. I am a scientist. Though some proponents make it ludicrous, intelligent design doesn't have to be ruled out -- but it seems more philosophy. These are concepts are not mutually exclusive. I was _raised_ Catholic, and one of the most important lessons I learned from that experience are that the ideas are more important than the religion.
Here is why. Because when it comes down to it, in our quiet moments of solitude, we find we all ask "why?".
Consider Schrodinger's cat. Now consider the film "The 13th Floor" -- where basically we are living in a simulated world, a created world. There is an edge to this world, just like there is an edge to the limits of our knowledge. At that edge, is the solidification of all that we know. Like the pieces of a puzzle, that reality may already be predetermined, yet how can we tell what is inside Schrodinger's box. So we receive our free will while staring at our predestination. Our existence is at the whim of a seemingly all-powerful force, who may happen to be just as flawed and at the same time just as real as any of us. Think the universe(s) at the end of "Men In Black." Think of the creators of our modern artificial life. Think of ancient energy echoes detected by by our deep-space telescopes. Imagine we are looking at ourselves millions of years ago, or alternate universes we have view of through some intergalactic prism.
Now, consider that for every bit of truth discovered in the name of science, both that I have read and experienced, there have been moments of awe and wonder, where synchronicity and magic still hold their sway. Perhaps in time, the pieces solidify the puzzle shaping a solid reality. And even then, shimmering glitches in the matrix remind me that there are realities fading in and out of existence as I press on through my day. It is a disconcerting and humbling moment as I transition from dream to reality when I wake, making it no different than those similar moments perceived in my waking life.
Can I create solid answers from my perception of this view of creation? Who knows? The society I was raised in seems to direct us toward a solid, hard reality. Our civilization relies upon reliability and relatable fact. And over time, we've found the answers of science to comfort us and deliver that entropic route, where order is established. While such concepts gain control of that power in reality, creativity is able to both flourish for some yet stagnate for others. All the while, we could simply be fulfilling some grand design. Why does the Law of Gravity exist? And why can't we yet resolve its nature?
Why is there no Creationist hypothesis? How many millenia and religions should we review to examine such a long and varied attempt at defining the unknown? Even science knows that it does not have an answer of where this all comes from. It's simply examining the rules of the same box. Neither can ascertain the true state of the cat -- and, except for fundamentalists and followers on each side, both seem to agree in principle on that.
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ausjpAug 25, 2010
"Why is there no Creationist hypothesis?"
All wibblery aside, a hypothesis is not just some vague assertion of "goddidit". It requires a testable mechanism that can be falsified.
kidviciousAug 24, 2010
I didn't know Duncan MacLeod used Digg...
gizmo12688Aug 24, 2010
I hope you mean Connor.
Connor > Duncan
wrath017Aug 25, 2010
There were only 8 planets discovered 100 years ago, for Pluto had not yet been discovered and was not discovered until 1930. I have a feeling you're not really 103 years old!
assassyn360Aug 25, 2010
I'm older than you!
mstachiwAug 25, 2010
f'n immortals think they know everything
shenerdAug 24, 2010
When I was growing up the sun still orbited around the earth. Stupid Galileo...
parrappaAug 24, 2010
You mean Copernicus...
tallestskilAug 24, 2010
Ah, these astronomer types; they're all alike!
lllyxerAug 25, 2010
Some test comment with HTML tags. <img src="http://hacker.com/xss.jpg" alt="xss check" /><script type="text/javascript">alert('Hello world!);</script>Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
thatashguyAug 25, 2010
both of them.
theinformerAug 25, 2010
There are still people that think it does. There are also people that think humans are the cause and reason for everything.
browny1978Aug 25, 2010
Americans????
badqatAug 24, 2010
There are hundreds of billions of stars in our own galaxy, and hundreds of billions of galaxies.
We've not even scratched the surface yet.
shenerdAug 24, 2010
Suddenly, I'm reminded of a Monty Python song.
jektalAug 24, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
lukas1051Aug 25, 2010
I remember our science teacher showing that to us as an introduction to a unit of physics, when we were about 12 years old. Think he forgot about the part where the universe comes out of a giant woman's vagina, needless to say his face was hilarious.
tunaktunakAug 25, 2010
Can I have your liver?
nihaoxpandaxsanAug 25, 2010
I was reminded of Carl Sagan, and now I want to go watch Cosmos again.
RegretfulMorningAug 24, 2010
But out of those millions and billions of planets, how many have a habitable atmosphere and gravity like ours?
acklefutzAug 24, 2010
14
blackchrispAug 25, 2010
42
anaxaAug 24, 2010
Even if our atmospheric/gravitational conditions were only one in several million, that's still at the very least millions of planets just like ours...just in our galaxy. Then multiply by the ridiculously large number of galaxies we can see, and odds are -- Earth-like planets are pretty damn plentiful in the universe.
davidtcAug 24, 2010
A habitable atmosphere and gravity like ours doesn't mean that is the only condition for life. It is the only condition for life that we know of though. Who knows, we may have already found life in places other than Earth if we knew for what was needed for those creatures.
catvllvsAug 24, 2010
Silicon life-forms are an abomination! Smite them all!
khastAug 25, 2010
I would like to add to what DaviDTC said...
We have even found life on our own planet that doesn't fit what we consider as life sustaining. Consider 5 miles below the ocean's surface, where there is very little light, and in some cases very little oxygen, and the pressure is enough to crush just about anything we have tried to send down to those depths. (Only 1 successful mission so far...) And there was life at that depth.
Just because we consider it to be suitable for life...it is usually referring to "Would a human be capable of living there?"
treshnellAug 25, 2010
"It is the only condition for life that we know of though. Who knows, we may have already found life in places other than Earth if we knew for what was needed for those creatures."
And then the question must be, if a form of life is so different from us that we can't even recognize it, does it matter to us that it exists?
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
42
c010rb1indusaAug 25, 2010
Considering the odds I'd say there are plenty of "class-M" planets out there
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
over 9000
yuleloggerAug 25, 2010
Life happens...
thetubesmasterAug 25, 2010
42
blackopAug 25, 2010
We probably never will.
4degreesAug 25, 2010
apparently there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on this planet.
treshnellAug 25, 2010
Interestingly, someone ran the calculations for that.
Number of grains of sand on the planet:
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html
7.5x10^18
Number of stars in the (observable) Universe:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#Matter_content
7 × 10^22
And just for interest's sake, the number of atoms in the universe has a lower bound of around 10^80.
pw378Aug 25, 2010
Numbers like 10^80 (or even 10^22) are just too incredibly huge for the human mind to comprehend...
lukas1051Aug 25, 2010
Even a trillion (10^12) is too big for lots of people to comprehend, much more than people think. Numbers like 10^80 are just... wow.
ronintetsuroAug 25, 2010
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cglassAug 25, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk
You can thank me later.
fall0ut17Aug 26, 2010
Thanks. You were right.
skaagAug 25, 2010
Surface? What surface?
The problem is that we don't even know where the surface is...!
innisskillinAug 24, 2010
Let's pack our bags. We need to get that space elevator built post haste!
Closed AccountAug 24, 2010
i like Kim Kardashian, she is so gorgeous, beautiful and charming !
curunirAug 24, 2010
I've been saying this for years. Dugg!
clonedAug 24, 2010
Speaking of space elevators:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1893#comic
treshnellAug 25, 2010
I think I'd rather see a Space Cannon working.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun
Sure it's not a good way to launch sensitive equipment (or personnel), but for getting material into space it's much cheaper. We need a much more cost effective method for getting building materials into orbit; it's too impractical to build large scale structures on the ground and then ship them into space.
10lbhammerAug 24, 2010
"If confirmed, that would bring the distant star system to seven planets, compared with eight in our own solar system."
--they just had to take a shot at pluto, didn't they...
thecoffeeAug 25, 2010
Actually they were not taking a shot at pluto.
4degreesAug 25, 2010
a shot at pluto would be something like: "If confirmed, that would bring the distant star system to seven planets, compared with 8.4 in our own solar system."
digg2point0Aug 24, 2010
My Very Excellent Memory Just Served Up NINE Planets
tallestskilAug 24, 2010
I learned it first as "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza-Pies", so you can imagine my happiness when Persephone (2003UB-313, now Eris and Dysnomia) was discovered so that they could finally take that hyphen out of the last part. 'Course, what do they do? The opposite.
TL, DR: Screw the IAU.
clonedAug 24, 2010
My Very Eager Mother Just Serves Us Nine Pizzas Every Day.
zedbladeAug 25, 2010
Pluto has been given an honor man, it's the basis for a new classification. Plutoids. It' went from being the 9th planet to the 1st plutoid. That's much cooler.
tallestskilAug 25, 2010
Sure, right, Ceres is awesome. First asteroid and all...
You don't see astronomers getting their panties in a bunch for discovering asteroids and plutoids around other stars, do you? No. You see planets. Large balls of rock, et. al. large enough such that upon which we could one day live.
Pluto has become the Miss Universe Runner Up with the consolation prize of getting a collection of tiny crap named after it.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
nyxerebosAug 25, 2010
f**k Pluto. And Sedna. And Haumea. And MakeMake. And all 'dem TNO bitches.
Ceres is where it's at.
eddiepotatoAug 25, 2010
Only 5 more years until we actually get a good picture of it!
joe8packAug 24, 2010
Is this where the flying ships come from?
snowdonjamesAug 24, 2010
YAY SCIENCE!
cyberwarriorxAug 24, 2010
The science is in!
in the morning
zenith251Aug 24, 2010
Not to be pedantic, but "Solar System" refers only to the star Sol and it's orbiting bodies. So us, basically. Calling another star system a "Solar System" is incorrect. You would think Discovery News would know this.
denelson83Aug 24, 2010
Agreed. There is only one Solar System. Systems of planets orbiting around other stars are called "stellar systems".
niedarAug 24, 2010
Wrong.
denelson83Aug 24, 2010
Ugh, semantics... ¬_¬
zenith251Aug 24, 2010
Ugh, pedantics. I made that word up. ¯_¯
funkylokiAug 25, 2010
It's not semantics when you are referring to descriptive astronomical terms. In that case you are just wrong. *_*
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
Ugh. Nerds. ಠ_ಠ
leandrotamiAug 24, 2010
Thank you, I was going to post the same thing
amaoicanAug 24, 2010
It would be a bit like calling Russia (and other countries) an America.
zenith251Aug 24, 2010
I believe you mean it would be a bit like calling Russia a United States of America.
America = Continent, US = Country.
cosmicrAug 25, 2010
America is most commonly used as an abbreviation of the United States of America. There is no continent simply called 'America'. Its either North America or South America. Jeez, I know this and I'm not even from America.
uv0001Aug 25, 2010
^People just like to bitch about the fact we use the term "American" to refer to people from the USA. Even though Canada and Mexico are part of North America, the correct term to use when referring to what continent they're from would be "North American". You would have to distinguish which America you're talking about since there are two American continents. The reason why we from the USA use just "American" to refer to ourselves is because 1, we have the word "America" in our country's name and 2, it sounds better than "United Statesian" which sounds ridiculous. Besides, we couldn't use the second name because Mexico's official name is "United Mexican States".
leandrotamiAug 25, 2010
Sigh...
In the anglosaxons countries, 'America' means USA and 'the Americas' means South and North America. They consider South America and North America different continents.
In the Spanish speaking world, 'America' means South and North America as a whole continent. They consider South, Central and North America as political/geographical subdivisions of the same big continent called America. The people from the US is not usually called 'americanos', even the RAE (Spanish Royal Academy) discourages to used this term and recommends the words 'norteamericanos' or 'estadounidenses'. Those who call Americans as "americanos" in Spanish are clearly influenced by the English language.
theinformerAug 25, 2010
They know the education level of a majority of their readers and knew that this would not be picked up on.
mikbunnAug 25, 2010
Please. The Discovery channel and its affiliates are about as educational as the Weekly World News. It's all alien/ghost hunter programs that don't give anywhere near equal time to skeptical inquiry as they do to the fantastical claims. And while "Planet Earth" and "Life" have great cinematography, and are super fun to watch when you're high, the narration is uninformative, unquantifiable, and hyperbolic. During the "Caves" episode of PE, my head almost exploded when Sigourney Weaver described one as "the most secret cave on Earth." Not anymore, bitch; five million people just saw it.
wrath017Aug 25, 2010
I find this post to be shallow and pendatic.
tokeliAug 25, 2010
"Solar system" is going to most likely remain the common term for it, and no matter what scientists want, people will call other systems, solar systems. Just like an astronaut in another solar system would still call the star, the sun.
brian818Aug 25, 2010
What would you call Europa, Io or Callisto? Would you call them moons or would you call them natural satellites?
paraswarmAug 24, 2010
Too bad the Earth-like planet is so close to their sun that it's probably inhabited by magma men. You do not want to have an intergalactic war with people made of liquid hot magma.
denelson83Aug 24, 2010
Who have sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads as pets.
leandrotamiAug 24, 2010
magma men = The Grox ?
aadainAug 24, 2010
Sounds like we've found a new source of power, a la the Matrix >:)
psypher1Aug 25, 2010
MAG-MA!
hatdropAug 25, 2010
are we gonna find anakin and obi wan duking it out there?
rowgerkAug 25, 2010
It can't be intergalactic since they are not from another galaxy. It would be something like Inter-Planetary-System...y :\
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
It wouldn't be called an interplanetary war either. That would just be our own solar system. I think Interstellar war is the right term.
rchargelAug 25, 2010
Intragalactic
docholiday22Aug 25, 2010
... because they'll give you a war you wont believe.
delsolmanAug 24, 2010
HD 10180? Damn I need a new tv.
obesesnakeAug 25, 2010
Over 9000 more too!
(9100 to be precise)
kanockAug 24, 2010
Hopefully they discover some super awesome planet like from Avatar.
meribianAug 24, 2010
I won't care until they show that they've found a planet we could easily inhabit and they've figured out a way to safely get us there fairly fast.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
woollymittensAug 24, 2010
Yes, because progress should be made instantly just for you. Jeeze man... can't you see the entitlement dripping off you like soe spoiled brat?
meribianAug 24, 2010
Yes and I don't care. The best things to come from going to space are satellites and s**t of that sort.
johnfluxAug 25, 2010
Actually the best thing that came from space was from James Lovelock studying the atmosphere of Venus and Mars, looking at the runaway greenhouse effects, and then conducting similar experiments on our own planet and finding abundant CFCs in our atmosphere. He funded his own expeditions to collect this info.
This led to the realisation that CFCs were destroying our ozone, and we found out just in time.
This guy saved our planet.
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
Quoth Bob Wiley: "Baby steps!"
damnlagcomAug 24, 2010
People think too small. Who gives a s**t about a new solar system when a theory proving the multiverse is in the works.
f**k.
eddiepotatoAug 25, 2010
There's enough crap to give for both.
mweelsAug 24, 2010
Only something so vast could be an illusion.
psypher1Aug 25, 2010
In only your mind........
mweelsAug 25, 2010
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." .. Albert Einstein.
rchargelAug 25, 2010
Total population of the universe:
None. Although you might see people from time to time, they are most likely products of your imagination. Simple mathematics tells us that the population of the Universe must be zero. Why? Well given that the volume of the universe is infinite there must be an infinite number of worlds. But not all of them are populated; therefore only a finite number are. Any finite number divided by infinity is as close to zero as makes no odds, therefore we can round the average population of the Universe to zero, and so the total population must be zero.
raresaturnAug 24, 2010
This is really good for anyone interested in exoplanets http://tinyurl.com/28v6xwn
teh_techieAug 25, 2010
tinyurl? Really?
this isn't twitter
raresaturnAug 25, 2010
nah twitter uses bit.ly
ban485Aug 24, 2010
Looking forward to future Kepler discoveries. Alien Earths are just around the corner. Good show by the way.
aggiemarine07Aug 24, 2010
OMG...weve found the Cylons...
aadainAug 24, 2010
Frakin' toasters
psypher1Aug 25, 2010
I hope they look like the 70's version so I can laugh at how slow they run in their clunky metal suits!
ronintetsuroAug 25, 2010
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thewisefleaAug 24, 2010
This is really great news. I had no idea of the technique science is currently using to map planets around stars. With so many cataloged, it's only a matter of time before they stumble upon a relative close star that is within the "Goldilocks" zone to support liquid water and thus life. Exciting stuff.
virinixAug 25, 2010
Though it's only a matter of time until we find a Goldilocks planet, odds are it will take nothing short of warp drive to get there...
meanoburritoAug 25, 2010
What I want to know is why everyone thinks our type of life is the only kind out there. I mean, why does water have to be vital to all types of life? Seriously, anyone think that maybe our way isn't the only way? I think the Goldilocks zone is bs. Now if only there was a way to prove it...
thewisefleaAug 25, 2010
If we do find a planet similar to ours, we wouldn't necessarily need to travel there. We could focus research and communication on that area, improving the chances of contacting life. As far as other kinds of life, that's a good point. Heck, there could be cross-dimensional life forms existing amongst us today that we can't see or sense. I don't mean to discredit that hypothesis, but we have a much better probability of locating life similar to ours based on what we know about how ours came about. The Goldilocks zone is not B.S. - it's our best chance that we know of to find intelligent life. But I agree it's not the only option - it's just the best option for our current technological capabilities and understanding of life.
builderbAug 24, 2010
Are there giant blue cat people?
austrologiAug 24, 2010
so when do we launch jupiter2?
tjloderAug 25, 2010
One-way ticket please!!!
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
Magrathea?
danieltttAug 25, 2010
In all likelihood, it's absolutely sterile.
mcfriendlyAug 25, 2010
I wonder if Jesus has been there yet?
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
There, they call him Brian
elliamAug 25, 2010
Thats what is taking Jesus so long.. There are a lot of planets to visit and save. Takes time.
theobviouschildAug 25, 2010
Maybe Santa could lend him his sleigh.
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
F**KIN' PLUTO HATERS
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
"The system has at least five planets -- one of which is nearly the mass of Earth."
"ONE OF WHICH IS NEARLY THE MASS OF EARTH"
"nearly the MASS of EARTH"
Good point to emphasize as everyone knows gravity is the source of life; the only possible reason why this point could be even vaguely significant.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
psypher1Aug 25, 2010
.............................................. ooooook?
skeloothAug 25, 2010
Don't worry, I dugg you brah.
Closed AccountAug 25, 2010
and with our current rate of war-mongering, we'll never get there!
protodonAug 25, 2010
I'm not sure why they keep getting excited when they find these 'exoplanets'. I may be wrong, but I thought scientists already confirmed that there are many solar systems like ours out there with gas giants and rocky planets in the same positions as our solar system. And they have already hypothesized that these types of solar systems are the most likely candidates for life. It's all old news at this point. Now when they get some real pictures of them, which I don't think they can, that will be exciting.
petrofireAug 25, 2010
Think of it as the basic astronomy of our time. What will they do with this information hundreds of years from now? We'll never know.
mikkowus7Aug 25, 2010
The pictures and finding life a nd going to them are the next steps.
tokeliAug 25, 2010
Spock?
phrawghAug 25, 2010
It appears to be class "M", Captain.
ScottyTomaierAug 25, 2010
YAY!!! Something for us to look foward to never going to because we will all be dead by the super nazi robot zombie dinosaurs in 2012!
jareddennisAug 25, 2010
I wish Carl Sagan were here to narrate this news to me.
psypher1Aug 25, 2010
Same here!
yuleloggerAug 25, 2010
Billions and Billions!
chongqingkingAug 25, 2010
one day when we find a massive star with over hundreds of orbiting planets... then we'll really be humbled.
hilanderiamAug 25, 2010
My guess is that the first discovered "Goldilocks Earth" will be a moon orbiting a massive planet.
mcklatchAug 25, 2010
But... But... it's only "a Solar system" if the host star is called "Sol".
The proper term would be 'stellar system' - new stellar system discovered.
There is only one Solar system (and it's mine)!!!!!!
bobsbonesAug 25, 2010
Came here to point out the same thing. Shame you seem to be getting buried.
Our star is 'Sol' we are in it's system. This system would be the 'HD 10180 System'.
bjornaAug 25, 2010
did they find the stargate address?
firstof9Aug 25, 2010
The 7th chevron wouldn't lock :(
garrandoAug 25, 2010
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phatbyteAug 25, 2010
This is awesome. I just wish they can zoom in enough so we can see who lives there :P
z33tecAug 25, 2010
Ok now zoom in on the reflection off that asteroid... now ENHANCE!
solisAug 25, 2010
Doesn't a solar system require the star Sol to be at the heart of it? So, like, can there not only be one solar system?
khorpoAug 25, 2010
Play Mass Effect and you'll figure out the universe is big !
brb, gonna plot mass relay jump
branditaAug 25, 2010
Where are the deniers to deny this science? I guess they only have selective denial.
maximmAug 25, 2010
We will find one soon and go there :)
172pilotAug 25, 2010
Why is it that Scientists continue to be so short-sighted as to think that ALL LIFE must exist within a magic "goldilocks zone" where the temperature is similar to that of Earth, and that water must be liquid form?!
Certainly it is possible to have LIFE where water exists as a vapor, or in frozen state, and the lifeforms have just "grown up" dealing with their own enviroments.
Using logic like they do, you'd think that FISH are an impossible life form because they dont breathe air like we do, or that PLANTS are an impossible life form because they dont use Oxygen.. Just very short-sighted IMHO.
bic823Aug 25, 2010
It's a logical assumption. The only life we've ever encountered has been on Earth, and in very specific conditions that (as they said in the article) aren't present in this exoplanetary system. Why would we spend time and resources looking for life in places where we have no expectation for there to be?
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you here that life may exist in wholly alien forms. In fact, I think it's likely. But at the same time, we don't have anything else to work with. Scientists aren't necessarily being short-sighted, they just have limited time and resources.
johnfluxAug 26, 2010
Both fish and plants do breathe and REQUIRE oxygen. Maybe you should brush up on your own science knowledge before attacking actual scientists?
italiricanAug 25, 2010
so... when do we get to go there?
bic823Aug 25, 2010
Well... if you left right now...
citizensalineAug 25, 2010
Ten planets in our solar system.. both Pluto and Eris, which is larger than Pluto, are categorized as "small PLANETS" and ARE therefore planets... and I'll be looking into the Stargate address for this place, as I'm a contracted (but unpaid as yet... :( ) developer for them. ;)
skaagAug 25, 2010
I for one can't wait for a planet to be found and inhabited by buddhists only. That, my friends, is where I'll want to live my life.
ruialvesAug 25, 2010
For me, the best part is that there were two portuguese researchers on the team. :)
dudeyeahbroAug 25, 2010
NEW DIGG! why does it start with all the replies opened?
dudeyeahbroAug 25, 2010
Why does new Digg start with all the replies opened?