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11-29-2010, 11:35 PM
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They have found the mothership. The humans are on to us.
Agents, this is a code six emergency. Check your private messages for additional instructions.
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11-29-2010, 11:44 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
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Location: Calgary
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I'm sure it'll be a complete letdown to all but the nerdiest.
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comm...inding/c17bp8y
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11-29-2010, 11:50 PM
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wins 10 internets
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i bet it's fossils on Mars. hasn't that already been widely speculated?
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11-29-2010, 11:54 PM
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First Line Centre
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Ah damn, Phil makes it sound like it's not going to be anything major.
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11-30-2010, 03:03 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: On my metal monster.
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Finally the last Indiana Jones movie will make sense!
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11-30-2010, 04:27 AM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Phil Plait is obviously in on the government cover-up.
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11-30-2010, 05:53 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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It looks like somebody wants a little more funding.
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11-30-2010, 06:32 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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Astroboy discovery!?
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11-30-2010, 06:55 AM
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i bet it will be something way, way far away that they found with a telescope - be it moon or planet - that they believe will sustain human life.
or, a plan to launch a human to mars within the next century
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11-30-2010, 08:29 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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It's been speculated that life started from scratch more than once on this planet, maybe they found proof.
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11-30-2010, 08:29 AM
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Norm!
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You know, the girl is ok and all, but you'd think that we would want the first image of a male of our species that the aliens would see would be endowed like Ron Jeremy. I mean she's even looking over at him and saying, wtf is that thing.
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11-30-2010, 08:34 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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You know, the girl is ok and all, but you'd think that we would want the first image of a male of our species that the aliens would see would be endowed like Ron Jeremy. I mean she's even looking over at him and saying, wtf is that thing.
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If aliens saw Rons vids they would ask...why have women?
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11-30-2010, 08:34 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
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They found a four million year old black monolith!
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11-30-2010, 08:44 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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11-30-2010, 08:53 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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My guess - methane has been discovered around an extra-solar planet.
Or, an earth-like planet with water has been discovered in the "Goldilocks" zone.
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11-30-2010, 09:13 AM
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Is a methane atmosphere that unusual? I was pretty sure that they had found evidence of extra solar planets with atmospheres similar to Titan. If it can happen in our solar system it probably is not the unusual?
There is an interesting planet in the Gliese 581 planetary system that I have been reading about in the Goldilocks zone.
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But perhaps the most interesting and exciting aspect of all this is what it implies. The Milky Way galaxy is composed of about 200 billion stars, and is 100,000 light years across. The fact that we found a planet that is even anything like the Earth at all orbiting another star only 20 light years away makes me extremely optimistic that earthlike planets are everywhere in our galaxy. 20 light years is practically in our lap compared to the vast size of our galaxy, so statistically speaking, it seems very likely it’s not unique. I don’t want to extrapolate from a data set of two (us and them), but if this is typical, there could be millions of such planets in the galaxy. Millions.
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ba...a-nearby-star/
I just find it so $%&*ing mind blowing that in my short lifetime, how much knowledge we have gained. I learned in grade school about the planets in our solar system and they were the only ones known. Today we know of hundreds of planets relatively close to us...
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11-30-2010, 09:17 AM
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Missed the bus
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Crazy to think how far behind we are compared to where they thought we would be by now.
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