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Rocky planets, possibly with conditions suitable for life, may be more common than previously thought in our galaxy, a study has found. New evidence suggests more than half the Sun-like stars in the Milky Way could have similar planetary systems. There may also be hundreds of undiscovered worlds in outer parts of our Solar System, astronomers believe. Future studies of such worlds will radically alter our understanding of how planets are formed, they say. New findings about planets were presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston. Michael Meyer, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, said he believes Earth-like planets are probably very common around Sun-like stars. "Our observations suggest that between 20% and 60% of Sun-like stars have evidence for the formation of rocky planets not unlike the processes we think led to planet Earth," he said. "That is very exciting."
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>>702630 Michael Meyer, an astronomer from the University of Arizona, THE LONG LOST HIPPIE !lbsrc.NnLs
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>>702667 HE'S BACK!
*lame piano theme starts*
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I wish I were around for the inevitable era of colonizing space. Be pretty awesome setting up your shit on a new, underpopulated world. OH GOD I WISH I COULD LIVE LONGER.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Blackman !3t3W7QNshA Mon 18 Feb 2008 04:56:00 No. 702820 Report I wonder what is out there. I find this really interesting.
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>>702630 Very interesting post OP.
Thanks for the link.
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>>702820 I hear they found a new planet in the KFC Galaxy with possible traces of life.
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>>702799 The obvious solution is to put all our insanity-resources into prolonging human life beyond what nature intended; that should buy us a hundred more years at least. By then we should just be getting into space colonization. It's going to be awesome.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Blackman !3t3W7QNshA Mon 18 Feb 2008 05:02:00 No. 702844 Report >>702839 Shit forgot my code.
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>>702844 i was just poking at the friendly black man.. no harm meant.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Blackman !3t3W7QNshA Mon 18 Feb 2008 05:06:00 No. 702856 Report Quoted By:
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Who can say Conquistador?
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I wonder how this will effect space based video games.
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Thanks OP for pic and article and something besides the primaries.
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>>704254 I would think it would make some of them already seem more realistic.
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I disagree with the relevance of the OP pic. I always pictured LGs elsewhere in the Milky Way to be more Amazon-like, running matriarchal societies. In other words, the mirror opposite of what we have on Earth is possible directly on the other end of the galaxy.
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I bet my soulmate is on the other side of the galaxy ;_;
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>>704290 holy shit must play again! stellar converter FTW!
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>>702799 I'm going to have myself cryogenically frozen (by time the end comes for me, they'll have most definitely perfected that).
Then, by time we're doing the whole cool colonizing the galaxy things, there's a good chance they'll have technology allowing you to transfer your mind into a new body - essentially giving you eternal life.
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>>704356 why would anyone give a shit about you then?
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>>704356 ...and the mind would be a tech challenged cretin adrift in a totally alien time and culture.
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>>704356 Cryogenic preservation doesn't work. It's total sci-fi and always will be. There is no way to re-start the neurons in frozen pathways; even people in comas often cannot be revived.
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This one looks nice.
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>>704388 doesn't work. It's total sci-fi and always will be. There is no way...lol. real scientific, faggot.
"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible." Simon Newcomb.
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>>704501 Flying involves the manipulation of hard physics and mechanical objects.
Trying to mess with something organic and unpredictable like a human may produce unforeseen results. You may preserve the neurons, but assuming there is such a thing as a soul, you wouldn't know if the guy is the same spirit or entirely someone else.
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>>704535 You dont know shit about flying you little pussyfaggot
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>>704539 SHUT UP
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>>702799 Our grandchildren might see it. Granted, no one on 4chan will have grandchildren.
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>>704388 Actually it can work. Frogs do it. Insects do it. Fish do it. Bacteria do it. We've had limited success doing it with dogs (freezing them that is). However it is much more difficult and challenging than the common layman thinks it is. It will take many more decades to become viable and reliable, for long-term durations, on just animals. Not to even counting how long it will take to be safe for humans.
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FUCK YOU GAIS, I'M GOING TO THE MOON
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how are we ever going to get to all the earth like planets we are finding?
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>>704640 Assuming the current rate of speed of our ships, wouldn't it take like 40,000 years for us to just reach the next nearest star?
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Space the final frontier...wait can we has a wormhole to a virgin eoith. Countin on ya Super Hardon collidah