Kewl...
1 posted on
09/18/2011 8:39:30 PM PDT by
Windflier
To: Windflier
To: Windflier
"Someone on Kepler-16b would see two suns hanging near each other in the sky, just as Luke did on Tatooine." Provided of course that the surface temperatures on Kepler-16b didn't boil away the vitreous humor in the viewer's eyes first.
3 posted on
09/18/2011 8:43:09 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Windflier
If the name is being used officially by NASA, or in the press, look for a lawsuit from Lucasfilm. Copyrighted term. He’ll even try to make $$ from other planets.
Anyone ever wonder what being ON those other planets would think of our arrogance in naming them?
8 posted on
09/18/2011 8:58:08 PM PDT by
ClearBlueSky
(Whenever someone says it's not about Islam-it's about Islam. Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead!)
To: Windflier
Reading this article, I wonder how many people have been suckered into believing astronomers have actually observed Kepler 16-b through a telescope.
15 posted on
09/18/2011 9:13:44 PM PDT by
mtg
To: Windflier
Scientists have spotted a real-life Tatooine — a world with two suns, like Luke Skywalker's home planet in the "Star Wars" films — and you should be able to see this alien star system, too, using a good pair of binoculars. Binoculars, hell. Just wait a week and look up.
18 posted on
09/18/2011 9:31:49 PM PDT by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
To: Windflier
Except that Tatoo I and II were nearly identical stars, not the disparate pair depicted in this picture.
22 posted on
09/18/2011 11:35:25 PM PDT by
Little Pig
(Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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