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    Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System

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    Image of Srum Srum
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    COROT-7b huh, sounds like a good vacation spot for the family.. wonder if they have a disenyworld?
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    09/18/09

    @Srum: yeah disneyworld belongs there.
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    "...the intense temperature shifts and boiling oceans aren't good for developing life."

    loneliness + alienation + fear + despair + self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding x guilt x shame x failure x judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side

    What about Anti-Life?
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    Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was starred Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was unstarred
    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    Corot Dallas Multipass!

    That is all.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    That's where the Separatist leaders are hiding!
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    I like your point about Earth-centric, carbon-centric, biology-centric scientists. Our concept of "life" is quite relative. I look forward to the day, though i doubt I'll be alive, when science discovers that life can assume forms we have never imagined.
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    09/18/09

    @burlybax: Well, it often does, then our concepts get pushed back.
    Look at all the bezire sea-life discovered...normaly far weirder then even the most outrageous scifi concepts before. Of course, still all carbon-based, but its certainly true that normal claims of "Life cant live here" are met a few years later by some bacteria or other life providing it wrong.
    Life tends to fit any niche.

    My own instincts are we will find it (in some form) whereever there is an environment that is changeing/geologicaly active in some way, but not changing too much.
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    Image of Ornithopterx Ornithopterx
    09/18/09

    @burlybax: I remember reading an article in Popular Science or Smithsonian or somewhere similar about alternatives to carbon for the development of life. In the article an interviewee pointed out something that was rather obvious in retrospect: namely that we look for life similar to ours because it's the only kind we've got hard science for instead of theoreticals, meaning we're better equipped to look for carbon-life than anything else, even if we're reasonably sure it's not exclusive. So for now we focus on that without entirely discounting the others.
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    Bill-Lee promoted this comment Edited by Ornithopterx at 09/18/09 9:38 AM Ornithopterx was starred Ornithopterx was unstarred
    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    09/19/09

    @#c15466277:
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    09/19/09


    @#c15466277: Click on it for the whole picture, stupid auto-cropping.
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    Edited by TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. at 09/19/09 3:07 AM TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was starred TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    I say we get a team together and check this planet out. Anyone (unfortunatly) seen the Core? We need some Unobtainium and a crew willing to risk all and die stupidly!!
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    09/18/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): only if you can promise we'll find huge chunks of diamonds
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    Image of nagumi nagumi
    09/18/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): I already plan to die stupidly. Remember: Live fast, die young and leave a hilariously posed corpse.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/18/09

    @nagumi: You can be my science officer. Your death will involve some horrible internal ship faliure and you have to rescue us all. I dont know about the posse. Maybe when we swept you back together..*cough*
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    great. now we can build a supermax prison on the planet and wait for Riddick.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    09/18/09

    @acrobatic rabbit: Exactly what I was thinking!
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    09/18/09

    In reply to Superhot Mega-Earth Discovered In Distant Solar System
    If we went there, might we find Vader's legs and arm?
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    Image of Fwiffo Fwiffo
    08/13/09

    In reply to Scientists Have Discovered A Very Strange Giant, Puffy, Backwards-Orbiting Planet
    I hear the coffee cup manufacturers consortium is already planning a mining base here.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    08/13/09

    In reply to Scientists Have Discovered A Very Strange Giant, Puffy, Backwards-Orbiting Planet
    Maybe it's traveling forwards and its sun is traveling backwards?
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    08/13/09

    @twophrasebark: Or maybe the planet isn't moving at all.
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    Image of Trystero Trystero
    08/13/09

    @ThisDudeRufus: It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving.
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    08/14/09

    @Trystero: Nice.
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    Image of Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon Anekanta - killed by a cacodemon
    08/13/09

    In reply to Scientists Have Discovered A Very Strange Giant, Puffy, Backwards-Orbiting Planet
    That's no giant backwards-orbiting exoplanet... It's a Space Station!
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    08/13/09

    @Anekanta: IT'S A TRAP!
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/13/09

    In reply to Scientists Have Discovered A Very Strange Giant, Puffy, Backwards-Orbiting Planet
    So that means that if we go and discover whats going on. We are all going to suffer the same fate as the Red Dwarf crew in 'Backwards'....well count me out, im not for pooping in reverse!!!!!!!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    06/11/09

    In reply to Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?
    FTL travel would be nice, sure, but for the time being i'd settle for FTL communication.
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    Image of phoenix phoenix
    06/11/09

    In reply to Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?
    Don't worry! We'll get a good, closer look in a couple hundred million years when Andromeda and the Milky Way go spinning into each other. :D Then we won't have to worry about the distance!
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    Image of LarsThorwald LarsThorwald
    06/11/09

    In reply to Did We Find An Extragalactic Planet Five Years Ago?
    They should have sent a poet.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    06/11/09

    @LarsThorwald: Or a telephone booth sanitizer, hair dresser, used car salesman...
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    06/12/09

    @LarsThorwald:

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