NASA: Planet Formed 13 Billion Years Ago

Yahoo! News ^ | 7/10/03 | Deborah Zabarenko - Reuters

[Junior]

5600 years is a blink of an eye in a 13 billion year existence. It's probably still there.

[Junior]

Different department.

[PatrickHenry]

From the article:

The old planet is located near the heart of a globular star cluster some 5,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, about the distance light travels in a year.

Journalism triumphs again. A light-year is about the distance light travels in a year. Yeah. More or less.

[NCLaw441]

And stop calling him Shirley (surely)!

[LRS]

...a whirling pulsar and a white dwarf...

They zoomed in on Bill Clinton standing with Robert B. Reich?

[BMCDA]

Thanks for the ping ;)

[MitchellC]

There's a difference between believeing something didn't happen because it isn't reported in the Bible and believing it didn't happen because it contradicts what is reported in the Bible. I'm not aware of any, much less most, YECs doing the former.

[Orangedog]

Like I said, I've never seen them in action here, so I don't know their entire side of the argument. I guess it could all come down to how long a day is for God. Today started for me around 6:00 AM EST. His might have started when he told Noah to build a big boat.

[Sam Cree]

bump

[MitchellC]

Your original post just came across like some very uninformed razzing, no offense.

As an aside, though, it seems to me that the YECs are at least provided with a consistent worldview for justifying their conservatism, which materialists/atheists, etc., lack.

[ThinkPlease]

Wicked cool! This discovery is pretty interesting, isn't it?

Placemarker for long thread life!

[af_vet_rr]

I would think NASA would be spending this time and money on finding out the cause of the Columbia explosion.

I think they (the engineers) knew what caused it before it happened and the only thing to be resolved is management listening to the engineers.

[jalisco555]

Journalism triumphs again. A light-year is about the distance light travels in a year. Yeah. More or less.

Yeah, give or take a light-year. LOL. Good pickup.

[kjam22]

I think NASA should be spending its time and money on figuring how to do re-entry into the atmosphere at less than 490898475945723945349 miles per hour.

Other wise it's going to make mining Mars and Pluto a lot more expensive.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

I would think NASA would be spending this time and money on finding out the cause of the Columbia explosion.

Ya, I'm sure the cosmologists stationed at various observatories around the world could help by examining the shuttle rubble for clues. (sarcasm)

Maybe you know of someone who is an expert on how foam planets interact with tile planets.

Get serious.

[11th Earl of Mar]

If you think that it is money well spent for the federal government to pay people to guesstimate how old the universe is, YOU need to get serious.

[Aric2000]

What the devilare you talking about?

You have to be religious fanatic in order to be conservative?

You have to be a fundamentalist in order to have a consistent worldview?

Where do you live? Geez?

You sir, need to get a grip.

[js1138]

Interesting (re: post #8) how the fight against Darwin seems to leak into physics. I wonder, if Darwin had never published, whether there would be people fighting the teaching of physics in public schools, since physicists believe in the religion of physical laws. Hey, it's in their name.

[kjam22]

If you think that it is money well spent for the federal government to pay people to guesstimate how old the universe is, YOU need to get serious.

Every now and then things come into focus. This was the post of the week for sure.

[js1138]

You suppose there are people who don't want us to know the age of the universe?