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Three New Earth-Size Planets Found "Nearby"
Forbes ^ | 1/18/2015 @ 12:00PM | Eric Mack

Posted on 01/18/2015 2:15:42 PM PST by dila813

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To: dila813

Ok....ok....but when we get there, can we pick our own damn cotton?


21 posted on 01/18/2015 4:24:08 PM PST by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Nothing left in there now but some empty pizza boxes, a pair old socks and a broken couch.


22 posted on 01/18/2015 4:24:25 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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...with humans on board to spread our seed across the stars.

Considering your tag line, I VOLUNTEER. Always want to spread my seeds.

23 posted on 01/18/2015 4:35:29 PM PST by upchuck (Entrenched incumbency is the disease. Fresh blood is the cure.)
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To: BenLurkin

Some other planetary civilization could have launched a generation ship toward Earth 100s of years ago. Arrival date Sol; 2015.


24 posted on 01/18/2015 5:28:40 PM PST by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: dila813

150 light years? I hope there’s oil and lots of C02.


25 posted on 01/18/2015 5:37:32 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: jsanders2001

“Nearby” is pretty much just a lie.


26 posted on 01/18/2015 5:37:57 PM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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To: dila813

——just 150 light years from Earth.——

“just “ -—— That’s like down the street and around the corner right ? ....


27 posted on 01/18/2015 5:45:51 PM PST by Popman
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To: Popman

No, in planetary terms, that is like walking to the front porch


28 posted on 01/18/2015 5:47:38 PM PST by dila813
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To: jsanders2001

So I guess I’d better bring a book. Or two, huh? :-)


29 posted on 01/18/2015 6:19:09 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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> So I guess I’d better bring a book. Or two, huh? :-)

And lots of meals and toilet paper...: )


30 posted on 01/18/2015 6:43:07 PM PST by jsanders2001
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31 posted on 01/19/2015 1:10:39 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Sirius Lee
See you and raise you one:
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32 posted on 01/19/2015 6:30:34 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Everybody's gone surfin', U-ni-verse-i-a


33 posted on 01/21/2015 3:38:45 PM PST by BlueDragon ( Is it Islamophobic to oppose these beheadings?)
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