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Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own
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Zonk
on Tue Apr 08, 2008 04:26 AM
from the i-think-it-is-awfully-pretty-out-there dept.
from the i-think-it-is-awfully-pretty-out-there dept.
Smivs writes "Astronomers from St Andrews University in the UK have discovered a planetary system which looks much like our own. Dr Martin Dominik told BBC news: 'We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. The newfound planetary system, which orbits the star OGLE-2006-BLG-109L, is more compact than our own and is about five thousand light-years away. The OGLE planets were found using a technique called gravitational micro-lensing, in which light from the faraway planets is bent and magnified by the gravity of a foreground object, in this case a another star.'" Update: 04/08 12:26 GMT by Z : This story is talking about a subject we have already discussed.
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SpuriousLogic writes "Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought."
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Researches on /. find article similar to this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this (Score:4, Funny)
Spooky!
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Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this (Score:4, Funny)
In this far off place
They use similar means
For the saving of face?
Burma Shave
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You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a heavy work based slacking device?
There, fixed that for you. And yes, I'm at work right now ;)
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Gee, you must be new here... let me spell it out for you:
There. That's the way we always used to do it.
OT: what happened with numbered lists and bullets? (Score:2)
Prediction: The following tests will now fail in slashdot comments although they worked until recently. Specific failure is that the item number or bullet is not displaying.
Test of numbered list:
Test of bullets:
This is happening under Firefox v2.0.0.13 running under bog standard WinXP Pro, and under IE v7 on the same machine. Source shows that <ol>, etc, are present as expected.
Is anyone else seeing this?
More importantly, has anyone come up with a good w
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OT: what happened with moderations? (Score:2)
I looked on several browsers on my Mac, including SeaMonkey, FireFox, Safari and Opera, and none of them showed the moderations.
I mean, how am I to get upset and indignant about a "troll" rather than the "funny" that I expected, when I can't see the actual moderation?
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I mean, how am I to get upset and indignant about a "troll" rather than the "funny" that I expected, when I can't see the actual moderation?
That's an important question, since it goes right to the root of emotional investment in slashdot karma.
I discovered that the "Score: n" in the comment header is now a link that opens a pop up that has the familiar breakdown of the scores. Actually this is kind of neat. Kudos to slashdot for implementing it.
Too bad they broke other parts of the presentation in doing that...
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ut the articles on security matters and such usually have some useful insights and ideas - like the large discussion on password security I was reading yesterday, which is always work related for an IT department
Oh don't get me wrong. My boss has asked about /. before. It's a "trade journal", don't you know? ;)
but I did really have some other things I should probably have done first :P
Ditto.
Another twin (Score:2)
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Solar system post replicated by self replicating.. (Score:2, Funny)
NOT A DUPE (Score:3, Funny)
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Now get me a taco.
HEADLINE: Failing to read leads to.... (Score:2)
More, after these messages.
DUPE! (Score:1)
Geeks Locate Slashdot Story Very Similar To... (Score:1)
Must be life out there ('cause it ain't here) (Score:5, Funny)
Now if only there were INTELLIGENT life at the slashdot "offices"...
(sigh!)
(Captcha is "nothing"... hrmmmm.)
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Actually, it is disturbing...
If Sol-like systems are common, with earth planets, then why isn't the universe overrun with one or more sentient lifeforms?
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For suitably small values of "one or more", "overrun" and in particular "sentient".
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Maybe it is and they just haven't found us. Maybe the light speed limitation really can't be overcome. Maybe they know we are here and have (wisely?) chosen not to make contact. Maybe we are the "first ones" and sentient life hasn't evolved anywhere else yet. Maybe we aren't fat enough to harvest just yet ;)
Could be anything, really :P
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The Milky way is only 100,000 lightyears across.
At .1c average speed, that's a colonization of the entire galaxy in a million years.
The local group of galaxies is about 10 million lightyears across. That's 100 million years to reach one end of it to the other at .1c.
There's roughly 200 to 400 billion stars.
Lightspeed isn't really a limitation.
Dupe (Score:4, Insightful)
This dupe was meant for the OTHER Earth (Score:4, Funny)
Configure your router to block all Earth 2 IPs.
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Checking CNN.com. . .
HOLY CRAP What the heck has been happing on Earth 1. I thought Gore Won the election.
Duped... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Next in the news..... (Score:2)
Surprised someone else hasn't already said this?!
A new low (Score:1, Redundant)
Similar (Score:1)
I don't usually complain about dupes (Score:3, Insightful)
I know you guys don't do any fact checking, but is it too much to ask that you skim the front page of your own site to make sure the article's not already been posted?
And so (Score:2)
cruel to grade school kids (Score:2)
Now there are about 250!
Re:Slashdotters Locate Article Very Similar to Thi (Score:5, Funny)
The second was supposed to go to the other earth. It was an honest mistake you frigtard.
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Look here (The thread is discussing a trupe)
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168794&cid=14071548 [slashdot.org]
There are more but this has some sort of evidence..
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Does this turn it from dupe tripe joke to tripe tripe joke?
(My head hurts)
Re:DUPE!!! And both are still on the front page (Score:5, Insightful)
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Fixed that for you. After all, it is Zonk we're talking about.
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