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Feb 15, 2009 21:53:42 GMT
Post by Dark Stranger on Feb 15, 2009 21:53:42 GMT
"Dr Boss estimates that Nasa's Kepler mission, due for launch in March, should begin finding some of these Earth-like planets within the next few years."
So hang on, they will be able to get a spaceship within (I presume) telescope range of such planets? As in we'll be able to see what's on the surface!?!?!
Am I getting the wrong idea or is that the most exciting news in years?
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Feb 15, 2009 22:35:07 GMT
Post by legios on Feb 15, 2009 22:35:07 GMT
So hang on, they will be able to get a spaceship within (I presume) telescope range of such planets? As in we'll be able to see what's on the surface!?!?! Am I getting the wrong idea or is that the most exciting news in years? No, I think you may be jumping the gun a bit here. He isn't talking about being able to see surface features on these objects. There is a branch of optical astronomy that is devoted to identifying planet-candidate objects by observing the apparently dimming and brightening of stars as they partially occult them. Up till now it has only been possible to do this for Jovian-class objects, but improved telescopes and optical interferometry should allow us to do it with small objects (in Earth's weight class) in the near-future. I'm afraid that is all he is talking about. We are a bit away from the ability to read the headlines on ET's newspaper quite yet :-) Karl |
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Feb 16, 2009 12:47:23 GMT
Post by Dark Stranger on Feb 16, 2009 12:47:23 GMT
Ah bugger it, I was all excited!!
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Feb 16, 2009 12:55:56 GMT
Post by grahamthomson on Feb 16, 2009 12:55:56 GMT
But what if extra terrestrials are reading our newspaper headlines?!
What if they've only seen the headlines of the Daily Star?
I sense an invasion!
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Feb 16, 2009 18:25:22 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2009 18:25:22 GMT
It would be more worrying if they cribbed on somebody reading the Daily Sport!
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Feb 17, 2009 13:25:54 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Feb 17, 2009 13:25:54 GMT
I have been to them all!
*VWORP! VWORP!*
-Ralph
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Feb 20, 2009 10:30:29 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Feb 20, 2009 10:30:29 GMT
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Feb 24, 2009 0:49:54 GMT
Post by karla on Feb 24, 2009 0:49:54 GMT
bugger...
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Feb 24, 2009 11:45:31 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2009 11:45:31 GMT
That could be their name, yes.
-Ralph
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Feb 24, 2009 11:48:32 GMT
Post by grahamthomson on Feb 24, 2009 11:48:32 GMT
The Bugger of a Hundred Fathoms.
I don't like the sound of that, to be fair.
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Feb 24, 2009 11:53:57 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Feb 24, 2009 11:53:57 GMT
The Buggers are everywhere!
-Ralph
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Feb 24, 2009 20:34:34 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2009 20:34:34 GMT
The Little Buggers are another species of the Buggers and they come from a planet known as Buggery!
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Feb 27, 2009 19:00:23 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Feb 27, 2009 19:00:23 GMT
When you go out at night, be carefull you don't get chinned and buggered!
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Mar 1, 2009 19:24:04 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2009 19:24:04 GMT
Whenever some Buggers want to go back home they put themselves in a rocket pointing at their planet and get shot to Buggery!
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Mar 1, 2009 19:35:42 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Mar 1, 2009 19:35:42 GMT
But what if extra terrestrials are reading our newspaper headlines?! What if they've only seen the headlines of the Daily Star? I sense an invasion! Pfff, I think they're more likely to speed away as fast as they can, in their arsenic powered space craft, reading that sh1t. And the Sun's even worse! |
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Mar 1, 2009 20:12:15 GMT
Post by karla on Mar 1, 2009 20:12:15 GMT
no.....dear deidre's photo case book isn't rubbish  |
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Mar 2, 2009 20:05:28 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Mar 2, 2009 20:05:28 GMT
Is that the one where young women in their underwear worry 'bout what they boy friends will think 'cos they've just slept with their boy friend's best mate?
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Mar 3, 2009 14:53:21 GMT
Post by karla on Mar 3, 2009 14:53:21 GMT
yeeeeaaaaah  its great |
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Mar 5, 2009 16:57:31 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Mar 5, 2009 16:57:31 GMT
It's the only good reason for the paper to exist.
-Ralph
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Mar 5, 2009 19:54:22 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Mar 5, 2009 19:54:22 GMT
Darn tootin'!
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Apr 27, 2009 19:12:34 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Apr 27, 2009 19:12:34 GMT
www.atlasoftheuniverse.comFound this awesome website during a quiet moment at work when Ratchet was being fixed (I tried to reverse him into an Ambulance Station garage that's door wasn't high enough - ahem...). Anyway, check it out. It's been done by a chap called Richard Powell, and it blew my 'thingies' off! Also has links to other great sites.
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Apr 28, 2009 19:07:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2009 19:07:59 GMT
Sausage World must be on there somewhere.
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Apr 28, 2009 19:48:17 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2009 19:48:17 GMT
I have always been there.
-Ralph
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Apr 29, 2009 18:19:29 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Apr 29, 2009 18:19:29 GMT
You're somewhere in the 'Norma Arm', aren't you?
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Apr 29, 2009 18:25:46 GMT
Post by The Doctor on Apr 29, 2009 18:25:46 GMT
Just to the right of it.
-Ralph
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Apr 29, 2009 18:38:36 GMT
Post by Shockprowl on Apr 29, 2009 18:38:36 GMT
Ah yes, of course. By the Eagle Nebula. Bet it looks great from where you are, hu?
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Oct 7, 2009 13:13:00 GMT
Post by Nigel on Oct 7, 2009 13:13:00 GMT
A new ring has been discovered around Saturn. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8291905.stmWell, okay, not technically a new ring. It was obviously there before. It's amazing that in these days of Hubble and sending probes outside the solar system, we're still discovering new things about our close neighbours. |
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Oct 7, 2009 14:15:15 GMT
Post by Fortmax2020 on Oct 7, 2009 14:15:15 GMT
We're sending probes outside the system?
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Oct 7, 2009 14:19:19 GMT
Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2009 14:19:19 GMT
Well, okay, not technically a new ring. It was obviously there before. unless the rocks in that ring are just Rock Lords preparing to kill us all |
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Oct 7, 2009 14:59:54 GMT
Post by Nigel on Oct 7, 2009 14:59:54 GMT
We're sending probes outside the system? Yeah, haven't you seen Star Trek: The Motion Picture?  Seriously, though, I don't know much about NASA's deep space exploration, but probes they've sent to the outer planets have kept or will keep going out of the solar system. I don't know what sort of transmission range or lifespan they have. |
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Seriously, though, I don't know much about NASA's deep space exploration, but probes they've sent to the outer planets have kept or will keep going out of the solar system. I don't know what sort of transmission range or lifespan they have.