Astronomers Locate Solar System Very Similar To Our Own

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.

Researches on /. find article similar to this

[MancunianMaskMan]

dupe

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[Jens Egon]

I have mod points, but I see someone beat me to it.

-1 redundant. You asked for it.

Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this

[wellingtonsteve]

It is indeed. In fact the original post was "from the evil-twin dept."

Spooky!

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[$RANDOMLUSER]

Actually, this post was right after "EU Recommends Slashing Search Data Retention", so maybe it makes sense, after all.

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[Anonymous Coward]

no, the original post was from the hello-up-there department. The dupe was from the evil twin department, which makes this post a tripe.

Posted by Zonk on Thu Feb 14, 2008 [slashdot.org]

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 07 [slashdot.org]

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 08 [slashdot.org]

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[wellingtonsteve]

So Zonk duped his own story?

Impressive!

...and it turns out...

[Veetox]

...that the "other" solar system is just a warped reflection of our own, or worse: an evil twin solar system...

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[BotnetZombie]

I'm not sure if I'm in the good or evil system - my dupe got rejected?

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[gordona]

this dupe is brought to you by the department of redundancy department.

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[superash]

More info : http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/07/2052251 [slashdot.org]

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[History's Coming To]

Slashdotted already.

In Soviet Russia Slashdot slashdots Slashdot.

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[somersault]

You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a lightly work based slacking device?

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[Shakrai]

You mean people sometimes use /. as something other than a lightly work based slacking device?

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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[somersault]

You mean your work involves all of the fields covered on /. ? I don't think I could get away with reading articles on games all day, but 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, but I did really have some other things I should probably have done first :P

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[mysticgoat]

Gee, you must be new here... let me spell it out for you:

1. Read slashdot at least once per hour while at work
2. Build up karma and fans
3. ?
4. Profit!

There. That's the way we always used to do it.

OT: what happened with numbered lists and bullets?

[mysticgoat]

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:

1. fust
2. skund
3. toid
4. fawth

Test of bullets:

• bulleted item

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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[somersault]

Tis presumably the CSS formatting that they are using? It's the same on my machine (XP Pro/FF 3 beta 5)

Re:OT: what happened with numbered lists and bulle

[ari_j]

This is intended behavior on Slashdot. It's supposed to force you to use the correct method of writing out numbered lists, with <br>. <ol> and <ul> are deprecated.

OT: what happened with moderations?

[jc42]

It's not just list stuff that's missing. I don't seem to see moderations anywhere any more. I looked at a couple of my messages yesterday that were moderated, and all I saw was the number; the list of moderations was nowhere to be seen.

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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[mysticgoat]

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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[Shakrai]

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.

Re:Researches on /. find article similar to this

[smittyoneeach]

Could it be
In this far off place
They use similar means
For the saving of face?
Burma Shave

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[somersault]

I wonder if they have an article about us on their org.dotslash\\:ptth site. And possibly even a dupe of that article. Holy shimmering doppeldupers, batman!

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[ovidus naso]

Not a dupe. This one is about the Second Foundation.

Re:Slashdotters Locate Article Very Similar to Thi

[LaskoVortex]

Sheesh.

The second was supposed to go to the other earth. It was an honest mistake you frigtard.

Re:Slashdotters Locate Article Very Similar to Thi

[LiquidCoooled]

No, no record.

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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[drunkahol]

That would make it a tripe surely and not a trupe?

dupe derives from DUP-licate
tripe derives from TRIP-licate

Donk

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[Thanshin]

Wasn't that the tripe joke that was already duped in two tripes?

Does this turn it from dupe tripe joke to tripe tripe joke?

(My head hurts)

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[Luke Dawson]

Wasn't that the tripe joke that was already duped in two tripes?

Wasn't that a song by Frankie Goes to Hollywood?

*tumbleweed*

Another twin

[StrawberryFrog]

Another one?

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[$RANDOMLUSER]

Another one?

Not just that, "a another one (star)".

Re:DUPE!!! And both are still on the front page

[QuantumG]

I've been saying it for years but, would it be so bad to hire "editors" who ACTUALLY READ SLASHDOT. WTF.

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[Anonymous Coward]

would it be so bad to hire "editors" who ACTUALLY READ

Fixed that for you. After all, it is Zonk we're talking about.

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[esocid]

here here. I even voted this one down on firehose as a dupe. what happened here?

Solar system post replicated by self replicating..

[Anonymous Coward]

printer!!!

NOT A DUPE

[BountyX]

This post is not a dupe. We are just in a parrellel universe...

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[beav007]

This is not the dupe you are looking for. *waves hand*

Now get me a taco.

HEADLINE: Failing to read leads to....

[oDDmON oUT]

Redundant stories, Dupes, angst among the faithful!

More, after these messages.

DUPE!

[Bhasin_N]

Come on, the other story is still on the front page!

Geeks Locate Slashdot Story Very Similar To...

[dohzer]

... Previous Story. Now here's Tom with the weather.

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[beav007]

Do you mean the solar system, or the dupes?

Must be life out there ('cause it ain't here)

[tekrat]

Wow, if they are finding so many solar systems like our own (2 in a 24-hr period), then there simply must be life out there...

Now if only there were INTELLIGENT life at the slashdot "offices"...

(sigh!)

(Captcha is "nothing"... hrmmmm.)

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[dasunt]

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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[Bastard of Subhumani]

If Sol-like systems are common, with earth planets, then why isn't the universe overrun with one or more sentient lifeforms?

It is.

For suitably small values of "one or more", "overrun" and in particular "sentient".

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[m.ducharme]

Maybe they all have to obey the speed limit.

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[Shakrai]

then why isn't the universe overrun with one or more sentient lifeforms?

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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[dasunt]

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

[Firas Zirie]

Whoever approves articles is at least supposed to read the front page don't you think? The article quoted isn't even from a different source, its the exact same BBC link.

This dupe was meant for the OTHER Earth

[kentrel]

Silly posters on Slashdot, Earth 2 posted this story a SECOND TIME on the front page of Earth 1's slashdot.

Configure your router to block all Earth 2 IPs.

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[jellomizer]

Done.
Checking CNN.com. . .

HOLY CRAP What the heck has been happing on Earth 1. I thought Gore Won the election.

Duped...

[VisiX]

before the original got bumped from my 8 article rss. That is an impressive new low.

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[ari_j]

I wouldn't really cal it "new."

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[gatzke]

We have had trupes in the past, but I don't think the same story was on the front-page three times... Something to shoot for.

Next in the news.....

[3seas]

...slashdot readers discover article similar to this one. Even as close as six degrees of separation....

Surprised someone else hasn't already said this?!

A new low

[LingNoi]

First no April 1st jokes and now a dupe of a story that is still on the main damn page.. Slashdot is dieing.

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[navygeek]

So is your ability to spell. It's "dying"...

Similar

[danilo.moret]

indeed... a dupe solar system.

I don't usually complain about dupes

[Tim C]

But fercryinoutloud, this one's still on the front page!

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?

it is our own solar system

[coldhg]

Seen in a gigantic quantum multidimensional space mirror.
I bet that if you tune up your telescopes you can see yourself in the mirror. (that or a big sign "we also used to have a large hadron collider").

Those, poor, poor people/aliens/whatevers....

[VennData]

...my heart goes out to 'em.

Slow news day?

[Gabby Johnson]

I hope the advancement of 'Science' by our OGLE star system brothers is progressing at a somewhat higher rate than here..

And so

[fredrated]

did our astronomers see their astronomers peering back as us?

cruel to grade school kids

[peter303]

When I was in school, we just had to memorize the names of nin planets.
Now there are about 250!

Good news, everyone!

[xLittleP]

When is Slashdot going to implement the "X days since we have duped an article" sign? Better set that back to zero.

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[Protometheus]

What's the point in using a variable number? You might as well just post a picture with a sign that says "0 days since we have duped an article" and save yourself the time of programing the counter. Goodness knows they'd never get the opportunity to set it to '1' before having to click the 'we fucked up' button again.