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Extrasolar Planets: A Matter of Metallicity
Space Daily, SPX ^
| Oct 12, 2004
| Henry Bortman
Posted on 10/12/2004 12:52:50 PM PDT by tricky_k_1972
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To: tricky_k_1972
"hot Jupiters"
John Kerry has a plan to cool those planets down by enlisting the aid of the Intergalactic Council, most of whom support him for president.
To: PatrickHenry
add to ping list, please.
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posted on
10/12/2004 2:18:14 PM PDT
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: tricky_k_1972
IMO, it all depends on whether islam wins or islam loses. If islam wins, we won't be advancing much further and we'll go straight back to the Dark Ages, never to emerge from that darkness again.
To: NewJerseyJoe
We should ship the liberals to harsh, inhospitable planets.Personally, I'd just as soon leave them here, while we boldly go forth to plant the seeds of the American culture of liberty on the new worlds.
It's a win-win proposition. They will be more than happy to see us go, and we'll be more than happy to leave them to their own totalitarian socialist devices.
And won't their descendants be surprised, when 1000 years or so into the New Dark Ages (otherwise known as the "Radiant Socialist Future" LOL), our descendants return to the mother world in what will seem to the inhabitants of old Earth to be "magical fiery chariots".
I wonder if our descendants will take pity on the stay-at-homes living in the filth and squalor of a depleted world, and help them out. (Hopefully NOT)
Heh heh. I'm getting away from myself - this idea is actually the basis for a series of science fiction short stories I'm in the process of creating right now. Some of the fundamental details are different, but it's the gist of it.
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posted on
10/12/2004 5:55:02 PM PDT
by
FierceDraka
("Support John Kerry - Or ELSE!" - The New Slogan of the Democratic Party)
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
10/12/2004 6:44:10 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(If you stand very still, they may think you're a tree.)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
It is a matter of time that we find an Earth like planet..
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posted on
10/12/2004 6:53:57 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: SengirV
Someone mention gas giants?
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posted on
10/12/2004 9:16:33 PM PDT
by
LibertarianInExile
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: KevinDavis
According to Big Bang theory we can see about 10-30 of the entire universe if we look all the way back 13.5 billion years to the Big Bang. That means there would be 1050 stars in the entire universe, most of which we can not see or interact with. That is about the root of a googol of stars, and probably also an equal number of planets.
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posted on
10/13/2004 7:13:23 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: tricky_k_1972; balrog666; PatrickHenry
Thought you and your ping lists might like to see this:
Did Our Sun Capture Alien Worlds?
It's a Univ. of Utah press release regarding this week's Nature Mag. article on the same. There's a link in this to the Smithsonian/Harvard Astrophysics press release on the same.
I don't know anything about it other than it's my brother's work, which I'll never understand... Thought you'd know what to make of it and who to show it to.
Regards,
Nicollo
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posted on
12/01/2004 12:39:04 PM PST
by
nicollo
To: KevinDavis
Pinging you to post no. 29.
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posted on
12/01/2004 12:42:09 PM PST
by
nicollo
To: tricky_k_1972
130 is a lot of planets considering that a decade ago there were about none. There are another 100 that have been detected even more indirectly. There could be a trillion in this galaxy, easily.
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posted on
12/01/2004 12:44:34 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: RockinRight
When we do find an earth-like planet, let's ship all the liberals there! Why not just send them to the Sun?
That more closely mirrors where many on this forum think liberals will go.
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posted on
12/01/2004 12:56:45 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Be very very quiet, I'm hunting for the rascally ... troll)
To: nicollo; RadioAstronomer; longshadow; VadeRetro
Interesting. Maybe someone will post it as the lead article in a stand-alone thread. I'd do it, but I don't have the time right now.
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posted on
12/01/2004 1:01:41 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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posted on
06/29/2006 12:23:37 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)
To: tricky_k_1972
Still sounds like our type of Solar System would be rare.
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posted on
06/29/2006 12:51:57 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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posted on
06/18/2007 2:01:57 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 15, 2007.)
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posted on
06/18/2007 2:17:51 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 15, 2007.)
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