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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Alelou » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:29 pm

LOL. It reminds me of Malcolm and Travis...
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Wed Dec 16, 2009 11:15 pm

^ Malcolm and Travis making a Fantastic Voyage! ;-)
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby honeybee » Thu Dec 17, 2009 2:43 am

A water exo planet had been discovered:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091216/sc ... eastronomy
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Postby enterprikayak » Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:30 am

omg :shock: awesome
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Linda » Thu Dec 17, 2009 6:30 pm

Well, this is encouraging. In the grand scheme of things, 42 light years is in our backyard.
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Alelou » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:21 pm

After reading about the temperatures there, I wasn't terribly encouraged. Maybe the Tholians could hang out there...

Though to be honest, I prefer my aliens nice and safe and fictional.
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:12 pm

Alelou wrote:Though to be honest, I prefer my aliens nice and safe and fictional.

And I prefer mine with pointed ears and awfully nice bums... :-p :vulcan:
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Postby Alelou » Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:41 am

And fictional?
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:26 am

Hopefully not! :lol:
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Alelou » Fri Dec 18, 2009 12:24 pm

Well, here's hoping all the new furniture helps next time a pretty young woman with a great behind drops by.

I wouldn't hold out for the pointed ears, though.
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Linda » Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:06 pm

I would kinda like my aliens KTR style, though even a one-celled variety would be terribly exciting for our first contact situation. We still haven't entirely rulled that out for Mars, have we?
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby honeybee » Fri Dec 18, 2009 7:54 pm

Not entirely, but there's not a good chance of life of any kind on Mars now.

But apparently, they are almost sure there is some kind of bacteria on Europa - and some exobiologists think there might be FISH there.

http://io9.com/5407716/scientists-say-j ... -with-fish


Some really cool space porn from I09:

http://io9.com/5429413/when-stars-orbit-black-holes


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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Alelou » Fri Dec 18, 2009 8:11 pm

One-celled aliens are as scary as any of them, if you ask me. New microbes can already be problematic enough when they're from our own planet.
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:01 pm

honeybee wrote:Some really cool space porn from I09:

http://io9.com/5429413/when-stars-orbit-black-holes


FYI Spaceporn is their joke for really "sexy" images of outerspace.

Damn! I clicked on that link before reading the last sentence! :oops:
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Re: Daily science stuff

Postby honeybee » Wed Dec 30, 2009 6:07 pm

Interesting article on Fermi's Paradox on NPR today:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2009/12/s ... ideas.html
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