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SciTechTalk: Search outside our solar system reveals a bounty of planets
UPI.com ^
| 02/27/12
| Jim Algar
Posted on 02/27/2012 5:42:50 PM PST by KevinDavis
Mankind's knowledge of planets, limited for most of human history to our own Earth and its solar system neighbors, has exploded in the last 20 years with the discovery of hundreds of exo-planets in the cosmos, a search with the ultimate goal of finding an Earthly twin that could harbor some form of life.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Science
KEYWORDS: space; xplanets
To: Jack Hydrazine; ELS; ToxicMich; Cronos; Art in Idaho; perplyone; TheOldLady; Oiao; nepppen; ...
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posted on
02/27/2012 5:44:01 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Ron Paul called Ronald Reagan a miserable failure.....)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
02/27/2012 5:48:36 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: KevinDavis
Does Mitt Romney get to pick his own planet over which to be a god -or- is that assigned by Joseph Smith or someone else?
To: KevinDavis
I would like to go very very far away
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posted on
02/27/2012 5:49:30 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: KevinDavis
any with a califonia coast and monterey type weather?
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posted on
02/27/2012 5:55:19 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(FReep this FReepathon!)
To: publius321
Does Mitt Romney get to pick his own planet over which to be a god -or- is that assigned by Joseph Smith or someone else? I'd give him Itokawa. It kind of resembles the turds he keeps polishing.
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02/27/2012 6:03:03 PM PST
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COBOL2Java
(Mitt Romney is SEVERELY conservative - and I'm SEVERELY against giving him my vote!)
To: KevinDavis
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The self proclaimed protectors of the planet consider mankind a cancer on nature and are working to wipe out our species. If they could think a half a thought at a time they'd realize the only hope for stupid whales and beetle bugs is man. Our purpose is to get Earth's life to another habitable place before the sun gets big and red and incinerates us.
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posted on
02/27/2012 6:06:30 PM PST
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: KevinDavis
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ALIENS VISTING EARTH IN UFO`S.
THEREFORE THERE IS NO LIFE ON ANY OF THESE PLANETS.
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posted on
02/27/2012 6:17:34 PM PST
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bunkerhill7
(Alien life in WH???? - Who knew?)
To: COBOL2Java
“I’d give him Itokawa. It kind of resembles the turds he keeps polishing. “
Great choice COBOL2Java!
To: cripplecreek
Thumbs stuck on the like button.
To: GeronL
I would like to go very very far awayYou and me both.
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02/29/2012 4:09:27 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(Signature for sale.)
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