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Astronomers see 'youngest planet'

news.bbc.co.uk — An embryonic planet detected outside our Solar System could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say.

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  • nahsrocketeer75, on 04/02/2008, -0/+31Darn thing's barely old enough to drink.
    • dinobot, on 04/02/2008, -3/+1Craig Hansen: Oh, she's barely legal? Fine, proceed, but I'll be watching you just in case
      • Gamer2k4, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Isn't it Chris?
        • acegi, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Chris is for Dateline, and Craig is for Planetline
        • dinobot, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I typed it wrong, didn't realize it until after the time had expired
    • ishwarchand, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1This is an April fool's joke, right?
    • ndonohue, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1You're more right than you think... I haven't RTFA yet, but if it's terrestrial, it may start collecting liquid water in a few hundred million years.
  • sc0rpi0n, on 04/02/2008, -10/+2:D Baby jesus!
    • metalbabble, on 04/02/2008, -2/+13wouldn't be the first time they named one from a mythological character
      • thcobbs, on 04/02/2008, -10/+4Jesus was real.... wether or not he is the Son of God is up for debate.
      • McMaster88, on 04/02/2008, -19/+2Enjoy hell, thats where you are headed. You should go to church some time. You might learn some respect.
        • ghostfaceDX, on 04/02/2008, -2/+10Sorry Grandpa :( We didn't mean it
        • takamalak, on 04/02/2008, -2/+3***** off you old fart. People like you are exactly why the young kids don't respect religion anymore.
  • sc0rpi0n, on 04/02/2008, -2/+3We should watch this thing for some time, as it could collect enough gas to fuse into a star anytime soon!
    • Scynet, on 04/02/2008, -0/+7That's what I thought, some consider our Jupiter a "failed star" (it even glows, just not in visible light), and this thing is 14 times larger. Your assumption isn't that far-fetched. The difference between planets and stars is only in the mass: once a planet becomes massive enough, nuclear fusion ignites in the insanely hot and compressed core, and we have a star.
  • Melenor, on 04/02/2008, -6/+20"The next youngest planet confirmed is 10 million years old."

    So the earth being 6,000 years old holds no sway?
    • av4rice, on 04/02/2008, -8/+4The key word is "confirmed"
      Put your bible away
      • vincentweber, on 04/02/2008, -1/+5C'mon he's joking...
      • aristotle0dude, on 04/02/2008, -5/+1Ok, I have a question for you. How do they confirm it? What is the control or known reference in this case?

        I'm sure I will get dug down but I'd like to know why we should just believe whatever a scientist says on faith in their honesty or expertise without proof? How is that any different than believing what a shaman says?
        • rayraym0fucka, on 04/02/2008, -0/+6scientists won't spam frost shock at you
        • perryge, on 04/02/2008, -1/+2rayray: Greatest comment ever.
    • DDBdestroyer, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Earth is older btw - jeeeezzzz.... putting ALL the millions and millions of years of history into 6,000 years would be damn hard
    • mllawso, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Damn it, you beat me to it.
    • hashref, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1Come on! Haven't you heard of a thousand years is but a day and a day is but a thousand years? Now... if I substitute "thousand" with "million" I get 7 million. Now... add 3 million like so... viola! 10 million! Proof that creation is fact! pwned!
      • cschmitz, on 04/02/2008, -0/+0That's not proof, that's just going off of a saying.

        Thats like saying 'one bird in the hand is like two in the bush. Now if I substitute one million dollars for bird I get one million dollars. I'm rich!!!'
        pwn3d!!
    • ZeRux, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Yes it holds. It's called time dilatation.
  • Enron1985, on 04/02/2008, -5/+3Alert the pro life movement, this planet must be protected, it has rights!
  • ihazstatus, on 04/02/2008, -5/+0I wonder if there's any oil up there
    • thcobbs, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3Damn, let them get dinosaurs first.... then we can go kill them, wait a few million years, and BINGO! new OIL!

      Besides, we have to even things out somehow.
  • itstodd, on 04/02/2008, -9/+4Al gore is somewhat of an embryonic planet
  • ace429k, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2adopt a planet anyone?

  • lewhich, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Question is, how do we get there?
  • ghostfaceDX, on 04/02/2008, -5/+2I swear to god, it's not my kid. It's a gas giant for Christ's sake. I cheated on you with a terrestrial planet.
  • over900000, on 04/02/2008, -3/+3***** pedophiles.
  • mrmatchgame, on 04/02/2008, -5/+1Bush: We have to see if this planet has Oil... I mean Weapons of Mass Destruction.
    • DDBdestroyer, on 04/02/2008, -2/+0we can rest assured that the armed forces are off on some god-forsaken planet freezing their asses off for no good reason
  • infraredflower, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Aww... it's so cute!
  • leerayIG88, on 04/02/2008, -5/+1mmm, 2,000 years old. *fap* *fap* *fap*
  • garryw, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1The earth is much better than those gas giants. Give credit where credit is due.
  • daivos, on 04/02/2008, -2/+2It's not old enough to have created any oil yet. Move along. Nothing to see here.
  • surKaz, on 04/02/2008, -0/+5Hm.. 'Youngest'... 2000.. man, that's one of the smallest number I've seen related to planets.... Everything else is "million this", "200 times that"....
  • TheNik, on 04/02/2008, -1/+2Scientists should shoot a giant capsule full of various bacteria and important compounds (i.e. water) and should set it to open in a few thousand years. That way we could essentially force life to start growing there. :D?
    • Chaoticfist, on 04/02/2008, -0/+3It is in the process of turning into a Gas Giant....
      We would have better luck in our own solar system. We would be better trying to teraform mars and Venus, and dumping bacteria on Europa and other moons.
      • garryw, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1Al Gore's head would explode if he knew about venus. It's air is 80% CO2 and there are no corporations to blame.
    • bicyclethief, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1And we'll call it Project Genesis!
  • stainboy, on 04/02/2008, -3/+3ALL THESE WORLDS
    ARE YOURS EXCEPT
    HL TAU
    ATTEMPT NO
    LANDING THERE
    USE THEM TOGETHER
    USE THEM IN PEACE
    • edzilla, on 04/02/2008, -0/+2Landing on a gas giant might be a bit harder than landing on europa...
  • BokeSmowls, on 04/02/2008, -2/+3maybe this is the earth that the bible was talking about
    • Khast, on 04/02/2008, -1/+1naw, it's taking longer than 6 days to create.
  • daschupa, on 04/02/2008, -1/+2"Research leader Dr Jane Greaves said the planet's growth may have been kickstarted when another young star passed the system 1,600 years ago."

    Poor bastard child.
  • mr.gates, on 04/02/2008, -1/+12000 years old? We should call it Jesus
  • bicyclethief, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1How do we plunder it?
  • Ekpyrotic, on 04/02/2008, -0/+1St Andrews original press release: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/Title,20562,en.ht ...
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