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[quote]European astronomers announced they had found 32 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system and said on Monday they believe their find means that 40 percent or more of Sun-like stars have such planets.
The planets range in size from about five times the size of Earth to about five times the size of Jupiter, they said. More have been discovered, too, they said, promising more announcements later this year.
The latest discoveries bring the total of known exoplanets to about 400, said Stephane Udry of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland.
"Nature doesn't like a vacuum so if there is space to put a planet it will put a planet there," Udry told reporters in an Internet briefing from a meeting of astronomers in Porto, Portugal.
"More than 40 percent of stars like the sun have low mass planets," Udry added.
The team used the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher or HARPS, a spectrograph attached to the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-metre (11.8-foot) telescope in La Silla, Chile.
The spectrograph does not image the planets directly but scientists can calculate their size and mass by detecting tiny changes in a star's wobbling caused by a planet's small gravitational pull.
Astronomers are keen to find Earthlike planets as these are the most likely to harbor life. HARPS has spotted 75 planets circling 30 different stars. The ESO team did not give details of which stars the 32 new planets were circling.[/quote]
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Obama wants the planets.
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imagine the possibilities.
Now we just gotta find one with a thick atmosphere and decent climate, and a way to get ourselves there extremely quickly. I can't wait.
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Obama wants the planets.[/QUOTE]
i closed this thread's tab then reopened it just so i could rate you dumb
If we find another planet with life, I wonder what that will do to religious activists.
However, it really begs the question:
If we do find another planet that can support life, we can't exactly communicate. It would take decades for any message to get there, and even if it does, there's no guarantee they can decode it.
The other problem is even the most directed signals become degraded into static and indecipherable garbage after a few light years.
Some of these news threads really been going to places. A reason why I love Facepunch, sometimes. The comedy for this discovery warms my heart.
MY brother thinks that the only planets in the Universe are the ones in our Solar System. Care to help me out, fix his way of thinking, Facepunch?
Really though. I said "Oh wow, 32 new planets." And he said "Do you really think that's true? The standards for planets have been lowered significantly, <Insert rambling here>." So, I said "You think the only planets that ARE planets are the ones you can live on?"
He said yes.
[QUOTE=Confused111;17924481]MY brother thinks that the only planets in the Universe are the ones in our Solar System. Care to help me out, fix his way of thinking, Facepunch?[/QUOTE]
How old is he? If he is below 10, leave him alone until his science class.
If not, beat the shit out of him.
I'm from Tatooine.
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Obama wants the planets.
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The [url=http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/41208]TH89 = Barack Obama[/url] script makes it so ironic
European scientists you's [i]trawllin'.[/i]
:v:
ohgodthatwasterrible
Lets go over there and check it out. :smug:
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Obama wants the planets.
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The worst post I have recently seen.
Cool. 32 new planets means that chances are at least one of them's got to harbour life.
Now we just need to find a quicker means of getting to them than what we have now.
[QUOTE=zpiscool;17926485]Cool. 32 new planets means that chances are at least one of them's got to harbour life.
Now we just need to find a quicker means of getting to them than what we have now.[/QUOTE]
Really really big plasma rockets?
Maybe that'll find Destiny there.
Space colonization will suck unless we find a way to have a global Internet spread across our homeland and colonies
Am I the only one who thinks the 2 sun are eyes?
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[QUOTE=Robert!;17926869]Am I the only one who thinks the 2 sun are eyes?
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Yes
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Obama wants the planets.
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What?
That can make up as eyes a huge mouth full of rocks.
Omg its ttly, liek, plannet ecks!!!1
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