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Scientists Spot Nearby 'Super-Earth'
CNN ^ | 12/16/2009 | CNN

Posted on 12/17/2009 1:40:25 AM PST by Dallas59

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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

David Charbonneau is probably a long lost relative of Toussaint Charbonneau - the guy who bought Sacajawea.


21 posted on 12/17/2009 3:42:36 AM PST by x_plus_one (once you take the red pill; its impossible to re-submerge yourself in the lefts illusions...)
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To: Halgr
A light year is 9 Trillion Miles...and if this thing is 40 light years away.....its NOT NEAR BY IN LAYMAN’S Terms.

Kids in the back of the spaceship; "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?!"

22 posted on 12/17/2009 3:45:34 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd: ON)
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To: Dallas59

“The planet is also rather near to our solar system — only about 40 light-years away.”
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Wow, as soon as we learn to travel at the speed of light we can make a round trip in just...eighty years.


23 posted on 12/17/2009 3:49:45 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: Dallas59

“The planet is also rather near to our solar system — only about 40 light-years away.”
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Wow, as soon as we learn to travel at the speed of light we can make a round trip in just...eighty years.


24 posted on 12/17/2009 3:49:57 AM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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To: SpaceBar

At the rate this administration is spending, we’ll be able to walk there in a year or two over a path of strung-out dollar bills!


25 posted on 12/17/2009 4:11:44 AM PST by catman67
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To: SpaceBar

Using 186,000 miles per second - you’re correct. Unfortunately I already committed the 9 trillion miles figure to memory ... arghh! ;-)


26 posted on 12/17/2009 4:43:27 AM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Dallas59

seem to remember a movie way back about the same thing the earth double was unseen because it was on the other side of the sun in the same orbit as earth a space ship from earth landed on it by mistake.


27 posted on 12/17/2009 4:45:21 AM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: Halgr

Light years...meh!...real men measure distances in parsecs!


28 posted on 12/17/2009 5:02:43 AM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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29 posted on 12/17/2009 5:47:31 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Dallas59

Thats it all though I think it was in black and white in the orignal movie.


30 posted on 12/17/2009 6:51:50 AM PST by bikerman (Buck Farack)
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To: RipSawyer
Wow, as soon as we learn to travel at the speed of light we can make a round trip in just...eighty years.

Forget about traveling at speed of light. Think wormholes.

31 posted on 12/17/2009 8:13:55 AM PST by Jed Eckert
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To: Gamecock

E-”Shouldn’t that be ‘bad-bye’?”

J-”What? No.”

E-”Does he live underwater? Is he black?”

They’re excited they found this planet that ‘may’ be earthlike 9 trillion light years away? It’s hot and gassy? THAT must be Gore’s fortress of solitude.


32 posted on 12/17/2009 9:06:14 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Dallas59
...major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets.

huh? The only "breakthrough" possible in a random search like this is actually finding life on other planets. We're no nearer to finding it that we were before this discovery.

Don't get me wrong--this is cool. But it's not a "major breakthrough".

33 posted on 12/17/2009 9:09:01 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Jed Eckert
Forget about traveling at speed of light. Think wormholes.

Folding Space

34 posted on 12/17/2009 9:31:24 AM PST by Jackknife (Chuck Norris grinds his coffee with his teeth, and boils his water with his rage)
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To: Dallas59

Cool. another planet for mankind to pillage and plunder. :-)


35 posted on 12/17/2009 9:46:41 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. May yur bandwidth exceed your girth)
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To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Thanks Dallas59.
 
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36 posted on 12/17/2009 3:10:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: AlexW

Thanks..
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37 posted on 12/18/2009 5:27:36 PM PST by mosesdapoet ( What did Obama's UK's first trip and his curious entourage of 500 cost US ?)
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To: Right Wing Assault
Let’s send all the lefties there so they can cool the place down.

I think Hiilary Clinton could accomplish that all by herself.

38 posted on 12/18/2009 5:31:25 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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