Jan 10, 2010: Super Earth

[xoxoxoBruce]

US astronomers have detected the second-smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four times heavier than the Earth, adding to a growing number of low-mass planets dubbed "super-earths".

So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.

The exoplanet, a name given to planets outside our solar system, has been dubbed HD156668b, and is located around 80 light years from Earth in the direction of the Hercules constellation. A light year is roughly 9460 billion kilometres. The planet orbits around its parent star in just over four days.

BuBye.

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[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

US astronomers have detected the second-smallest exoplanet ever discovered

WE astronomers...
:p

[Bullitt]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

WE astronomers...
:p

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US

A whole continent beyond the Western Ocean? Bah, nonsense! You know how unreliable Wikipedia is. You might as well claim, that people have walked on the moon.

[Scriveyn]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

WE astronomers...
:p

wee astronomers

[Gravdigr]

That picture looks like Walt Disney's phlegm.

[SPUCK]

I will not be moving to some damn place called HD156668b!
How the hell am I supposed to pronounce that?!

"Yeah Mom, I'm moving to HD156668b."
"Yes it's called HDonehundredfiftysixthousandsixhundredsixtyeight b."
"That's right Mom, b! "

"No!! That's not the street address!!"




There aren't that many Home Depots either.
When they find a place with a better name - then I'll go!


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There are now over 400 exoplanets known.

[xoxoxoBruce]

[newtimer]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.

Unlike Spuck, some of us will stay here on Earth and remain nice and gruntled.

[Adak]

I really like their excitement - "We discovered an exoplanet!".

Great, except it has no water, the temperature never gets below 1,200ºC, the atmosphere has no oxygen in it, and - oh yeah - it would take us hundreds of years to get there.

Aside from these and dozens of other little details, it's JUST PERFECT!! :p :p :p

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Adak

I really like their excitement - "We discovered an exoplanet!".

Great, except it has no water, the temperature never gets below 1,200ºC, the atmosphere has no oxygen in it, and - oh yeah - it would take us hundreds of years to get there.

Aside from these and dozens of other little details, it's JUST PERFECT!! :p :p :p

We come from a blue planet light-years away
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late

[chorus:]
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here

We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year

[chorus]

Bought Manhatten for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Heres a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?

[chorus]

I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to

We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.

OMG! Someone stole Spuck's gruntle?

[spudcon]

I'm not sorry about your gruntle.

[Pete Zicato]

♪ ♫ I've got plenty of gruntle. And gruntle's plenty for me.... ♫ ♪

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yeah, he's got plenty of gruntle, and enough sense of humor to know I was goofing with him.