Three Neptune-sized Planets Found Nearby 337
WillAffleckUW writes "CNN reports the discovery of three Neptune-sized planets found in orbit around a sun 41 light years away. The star they orbit is similar to our Sun, and the planetary distribution is probably similar to our Solar System. Recent observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope last year revealed that HD 69830 also hosts an asteroid belt, making it the only other sun-like star known to have one. No word on if they have habitable moons, or monoliths yet."
Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:5, Funny)
(Go ahead, tell me the tale of how immensely huge the universe is and how 41 light-years away can only be described as nearby. Then tell me you won't mind helping me move if it's 'nearby')
Nothing for you to see here, please move along (Score:2, Funny)
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along" acquires an odd meaning in a story about the discovery of new planets.
Which planet again? (Score:5, Funny)
ba-dum-cha. Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:5, Funny)
Neighbors? (Score:4, Funny)
There could be sentient being living there. Odds are 50/50 they have more advanced technology than we do. If they can travel at near light speed, they could arrive here 82+ years after we started beaming massive amounts of radio and tv into space, which would be soon. Maybe we should prepare a "reception" for them or something.
It's only a matter of time until somebody picks up our signals and comes to crash the party.
Re:Neighbors? (Score:2, Funny)
I'll bring the chips.
Let's hope they use radio and not telepathy though. Otherwise, I'm not touching the guacamole.
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, that is close, only 243,860,592.36 volkwagen Bug Top Speed years away ! I'll pack my stuff now.
Re:Nearby (Score:2, Funny)
If the curiosity factor isn't enough to justify such a trip, well, then you should consider that your great grand kids may be in circumstances where they can not survive on this planet for much longer, for some reason or another, and may need to find possible alternatives. Consider it not putting all of one's eggs in one basket.
I for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, that's only 3,500 trillion football fields away.
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:1, Funny)
Gentlemen, we have a situation. These "Earth" creatures have discovered us. It is only a matter of time before they begin a premptive invasion of Omicron Persei 8 and Omicron Persei 9. This threat must be dealt with immediately.
Oh crap, sorry, wrong window. Sorry.
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Re:Marco Polo (Score:1, Funny)
j/k
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:4, Funny)
Russian or European?
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:3, Funny)
Therefore what? My concern is the fact that they received The Honeymooners 12 years ago and have already dispatched planetary sterilizers. I figure we've got about 31 years left.
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:4, Funny)
Do you want that in Nivas, Rivas, Samaras, Okas or Kalinas?
Welcome to Earf (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps these planets contain intelligent life, advanced far beyond our own. Perhaps they have learned the better way of pacifism and build technologies directed toward bettering life rather than destroying it.
If that's the case, I vote we conquer them, enslave their kind, take their technologies and patent them as our own, and propel ourselves toward a new age of luxury. It will serve as a witness to the galaxy that No One messes with Earth!
Space Travel & Neptune Women Possible Marriage (Score:2, Funny)
Basically, the human body atrophies during Space Travel from SAMENESS AND LACK OF PHYSICAL STRESS. My Fountain of Youth Temperature Oscillation Health System brings back the stress to ALL BODILY SYSTEMS [newpath4.com]. When you're on the hot side of the AC unit, the circulatory and lymph systems get reamed out & pumped, pores open wide, while on the cold side of the system you begin shivering as hypothermia is quickly achieved in 5-10 minutes from the induced rapid cooling. Shivering exercises every muscle group in the human body, all the way through.
Someone here mentioned it would take a long time to reach all those desperate women in the Neptunian ("greener pastures") Worlds but really, it will not take nearly as long as you think. I have developed an engine that can be adapted from producing electric current to making plenty of thrust for Light Speed [newpath4.com]. I have theorized a way to make a Quantum Leap (upon achieving Light Speed) that goes beyond the Speed of Light. How fast I don't know but Speed of Thought? Maybe. But there wouldn't be any way to know for sure you wouldn't come out in the middle of the Neptuninian aphrodite women's Sun... so maybe I'll pass on the 1st expedition.
btw, when you set up the Fountain of Youth System, use the Low Setting on the air conditioner. IT IS NOT A TOY. Cooling and warming the lungs and muscles in the inner chest walls overly much and too fast is enough to kill you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. The system will strengthen the lungs of the wheelchair bound, the crippled & bedridden & disabled as well as recovering their heart health, but it will take months & a good deal of nutritional supplements is strongly advised. It will speed the healing process. For young bucks who are already healthy, the temperature oscillation will take you to a higher physical condition but you still NEED TO START OUT SLOW.
Another beautiful thing about letting an air conditioner exercise you, much like a hyperbaric chamber or an iron lung, is that NO WILLPOWER IS NEEDED; the willpower comes from the wall socket (electrical outlet). If there was a way to make you fall into a deep sleep while lying inside a temperature oscillation chamber you might not suffer the effects of ice crystal formation from suspended animation. In which case, you would arrive on Neptune 41 in great shape AND not have aged. Your mind would function perfectly, not suffering from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease or strokes nor any heart atttacks from sedentary sleep, because your body was being exercised constantly during all the "(pdf) long trip [newpath4.com]" (@3-5 years Earth Time) there.
As I have mentioned before on SlashDot, my health system will reverse many diseases in the elderly & it is The Cure for American Obesity [prleap.com] (American Poor Health, American Diabetes to some extent, and American children failure in school due to poor circulation & proper brain oxygenation). By bringing so many Americans returned to a better state of health we could save many billions of dollars and reduce national debt by removing the load from our healthcare system budget. Unfortunately the major wire services and television news reporters are refusing to print this lifesaving information, possibly because
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:2, Funny)
Stargate (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Same is Unlikely - Huge Difference to be expect (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:3, Funny)
- Netptune-Sized-Planet-Minister-Dude: Oh Great One, the Eartlings have discovered our existance
- Great One: Earthlings?
- NSPMD: Yes oh Great One. It's a Mars-size plantet nearby, about 12.64 sextilion Volkswagens away.
- GO: So, what of it? Big deal. Are they friendly beings?
- NSPMD: Well Great One that's the problem. We've been spying on them for years, reading their books, watching their moving pictures, and listening to their sounds and rhythms.
- GO: I see. Oh well, let them bring their angry missiles and soldiers. We'll give them a whooping.
- NSPMD: It's worse Sir.
- GO: Worse?
- NSPMD: Yes Sir
- GO: How so?
- NSPMD: According to our calculations, we'll be sued by RIAA within the next 41 years
- GO: Oh crap
Re:Let's use some familiar units people! (Score:3, Funny)
(You've got to know these things when you're King.)