Slashdot reader Longjmp asks:

So will he ever stop repeating what is right there in the summary. What do slashdot readers think?

That's easy.
We'd just tell them we defy all known physics, from flares and radiation to pure mechanical forces like they do, obviously ;)

Correct. But not only that.
It's most likely also 'tidal-locked', meaning one side will always face the sun (and be damn hot) and the other side permanently dark (damn cold) - with storms between which will make Earth's hurricanes look like the blow of a butterfly.
With an evironment like that, we can rule out higher life forms.
However, even primitive algae and amoebae in the belt between the extreme zones would be a sensation.

You didn't miss anything, since, according to some comments above, they don't exist anyway.
Ever been to Africa? No? That's because it doesn't exist either ;)

More seriously, we were lucky, only a cloud or two. And it was indeed impressive, a lot more of those little critters than usual :)

So, in your just over 60 years no one ever told you to try spotting them during nighttime?
Sad.

Well, maybe the temperatures of an ice/brine mix and your anus is more relevant to you (although I don't want to know any details), for me, however, the freezing and boiling points of water make a lot more sense ;)

Eventually it will reproduce.
When our first astronauts arrive on Mars, they will notice that not only Mars is populated by robots, but also the robots have developed into an intelligent life form.
And then Earth will be bombed into oblivion as soon as the astronauts exit the lander and wave their "Get Windows 10" flag.

Thank you for proving my sig.
Where in my (very) few words above did I say I was blaming Islam (only)?
Or, in your view, Islam is a religion, whereas christian belief is not? Then what is it, the "Truth"?
If so, you are among the people who are carrying on the hypocracy.

Hypocritical society:
Killing people is OK, "making" people (sex) is not.
I blame religion.

Pfff, hipster.
I want to see Pong: The Movie and Pong Reloaded
(plus Making of - behind the bars).

I agree! And more use of the "const" keyword.
I want to write something like
const int const foo(const*(const) int const a) const: const {}
and
for (const i = 0;const i(const)++; i and finally:
const return const 1 (const const const)

No, but with a laser.
Its production number was No. 5 btw.

That's way to sophisticated ;)
In the 1960's German TV series "Raumpatrouille Orion" (Space Patrol Orion) they used things like faucets and electric irons as controls, easily identifiable as such in the films.

... sang it before:

Dupe-ee-dupe-ee-dupe-ee-dupe.

You forgot the refrain:

"We didn't start the fire, it was always burning ..."