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Light from Faraway Planet Directly Detected
space.com ^ | 01/13/10

Posted on 01/13/2010 5:59:01 PM PST by KevinDavis

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To: Talisker

Can we send Obama there to Socialize them instead of us?


21 posted on 01/13/2010 6:42:21 PM PST by RummyChick
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22 posted on 01/13/2010 6:43:27 PM PST by joethedrummer
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To: KevinDavis

Maybe NASA can send the people depressed over the movie Avatar there?


23 posted on 01/13/2010 6:50:39 PM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: UCANSEE2

“Chocolate at the center of the Milky Way?”

That’s not funny. Don’t EVER joke about chocolate. (See my tagline.) :)


24 posted on 01/13/2010 6:59:04 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What’s really funny (or sad depending on how you look at it) is the fact that I thought of you when he said it. LOL


25 posted on 01/13/2010 7:01:12 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: KevinDavis

It was me.

It’s REALLY dark out here in the Boonies, and when I walk the dogs at night, I take a Maglite with me.

When I get bored, waiting for them to roust out a rabbit or a pheasant, I shine my flashlight toward Heaven...just for something to do.

Sorry I screwed up all the data and all... *SNORT*


26 posted on 01/13/2010 7:01:19 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: cripplecreek

It’s that mind-meld thing you and I have. :)

Or else it’s the endless hours we WASTE here when we could be productive citizens, LOL!


27 posted on 01/13/2010 7:03:42 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: KevinDavis

Ten times more massive than Jupiter sounds like its maybe in brown dwarf territory. If such is the case, its also radiating a good amount of IR, although mostly from contraction, not from fusion. Not massive enough, however some brown dwarves may have fusion due to deuterium or lithium. That process does not last too long however - runs out of fuel.


28 posted on 01/13/2010 8:01:31 PM PST by Fred Hayek (From this point forward the Democratic Party will be referred to as the Communist Party)
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To: KevinDavis

FTL, inertial dampeners?


29 posted on 01/13/2010 10:24:16 PM PST by wastedyears (If I'm going out, I'm going out like Major Kong.)
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Thanks KevinDavis, just adding, not pinging.
 
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30 posted on 01/14/2010 3:48:10 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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