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Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered
NY Times ^ | February 15, 2008 | DENNIS OVERBYE

Posted on 02/14/2008 11:44:10 PM PST by neverdem

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Discovery of a Jupiter/Saturn Analog with Gravitational Microlensing
1 posted on 02/14/2008 11:44:12 PM PST by neverdem
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To: KevinDavis

ping


2 posted on 02/14/2008 11:45:08 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: neverdem

Bottled City of Kandor?


3 posted on 02/14/2008 11:48:38 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: neverdem

That’s where Hobbits and such live.


4 posted on 02/14/2008 11:52:08 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: neverdem

Everybody in that system drives a Prius. Or a clown car.

Or is there a difference?


5 posted on 02/14/2008 11:53:08 PM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: neverdem
Among the billions of galaxies, nothing will match Earth.

We are alone.

:-(

6 posted on 02/15/2008 12:21:54 AM PST by Does so (...against all enemies, DOMESTIC and foreign...)
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Among the billions of galaxies, nothing will match Earth. We are alone.
Maybe you need to buy a bigger telescope.
7 posted on 02/15/2008 1:28:43 AM PST by samtheman (McCain: Not as good as a real Republican, not as bad as a real Democrat.)
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To: neverdem

So when do I move in?


8 posted on 02/15/2008 2:05:35 AM PST by Shaun_MD
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To: Does so

No crap? Well, better alert all the scientists of the world, tell ‘em to just quit now. Wish I had your omniscience.


9 posted on 02/15/2008 2:13:17 AM PST by thecabal
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To: neverdem

It's bizarro world!

Or is that Wash. DC I'm thinking of?

10 posted on 02/15/2008 2:17:10 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Member of the irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.)
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Among the billions of galaxies, nothing will match Earth. We are alone. :-(

I feel sad for you. I don't feel alone.

11 posted on 02/15/2008 3:05:40 AM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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To: thecabal; raybbr

Hubris is one thing. Is there a word to describe this position? Geocentric is far too simple. Even the Jesuits recognize that God created the ENTIRE universe and all within it.

Perhaps thecabal can deign to share its knowledge of the entire universe, and its conviction that humans are the ONLY one HE has any interest in with we mere mortal humans. I’m sure that local...angels are curious too. BG.


12 posted on 02/15/2008 3:15:40 AM PST by Don W (Vote YOUR Honor, or it could become: Vote, your Honor.....)
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To: Does so

“Among the billions of galaxies, nothing will match Earth.”

That is more a matter of faith and pride.

But we simply cannot prove it. Ever.


“We are alone.”

No. We are just on our own. And so are they.

There are other ‘intelligent life forms’ much closer to us, that we have yet to discover.

So, we are not as alone as we might think.


13 posted on 02/15/2008 3:38:52 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: JennysCool

Even with liquid methane oceans, there’s gonna be beach traffic.


14 posted on 02/15/2008 3:47:25 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Don W

“Perhaps thecabal can deign to share its knowledge of the entire universe, and its conviction that humans are the ONLY one HE has any interest in with we mere mortal humans.”


God isn’t what we think he is, and doesn’t think like we do.

So, if God has other ‘interests’, it’s not like we can do anything about it.


15 posted on 02/15/2008 3:56:11 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: neverdem
In that Galaxy Far Far Away.....

They may be smaller but they're feisty.

16 posted on 02/15/2008 4:09:56 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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To: neverdem

17 posted on 02/15/2008 4:48:31 AM PST by mirkwood
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To: neverdem; annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Thanks neverdem.
 
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18 posted on 02/15/2008 7:26:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, February 10, 2008)
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To: Does so

Heh, your pessimism in the face of facts to the contrary resembles that of a Democrat opposing progress in Iraq.


19 posted on 02/15/2008 7:33:50 AM PST by AntiKev (Von nichts kommt nichts.)
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20 posted on 02/15/2008 5:47:54 PM PST by KevinDavis (I will support John McCain..)
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