Comments on: 32 Planets Discovered Outside Solar System

By: mikespeir

mikespeir — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:42:06 +0000

But it won’t be in this system.

By: Logan

Logan — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:35:19 +0000

If we're still around by the time solar expansion starts to become a problem, we'll damn well have to go find a different planet to inhabit long-term and in large numbers.

By: Martin Fallon

Martin Fallon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:05:02 +0000

Ah-ha! So it’s the deflector dish then? Cool, huh-huh…
Which makes me think: there are some 75 billion galaxies in the Universe (as of 2006), each with about 500 billion stars on average. Let’s say there’s just ONE intelligent species per galaxy (a figure that is looking increasingly conservative as we discover more and more planets in our immediate vicinity), that would mean that JC must have died 75 billion excruciating deaths in order to save Everyone/the Believers/the Righteous Believers/Whatever in every galaxy. Sounds absurd? Sure, unless you _really_ believe that those billions upon billions of galaxies, stars, nebulae, black holes, planets and so on were ‘created’ just for the amusement of a bunch of mildly advanced apes with existential problems…

By: Mark D

Mark D — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:18:40 +0000

@ Anna
Kolob, planet where mormon gods have sex.
Kobol, planet where sexy robots have sex.

There is a thoery that BSG was based on mormon history.
http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/battlestar-mormonica.htm

Do you look more like Starbuck or Six?

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:27:49 +0000

Oh, ye of little faith. All you need is a deflector dish capable of emitting a graviton pulse. Apply a continuous graviton emission and voila! Entity crucified.

By: Martin Fallon

Martin Fallon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:13:39 +0000

LOL! But what if the Reticulans were actually Crystalline Entities? How would you crucify one of those???

By: Tobytwo

Tobytwo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:11:53 +0000

Learning is hard. There’s always new stuff happening!

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:09:32 +0000

In the Beginning, Xenu created the heavens and Zeta Reticula V. And the spirit of Xenu was kind of pleased, so Xenu kept on creating. Blah, blah, blah, Xenu created Zeta Reticulans out of the crusty outer shell of the planet. And for no apparent reason whatsoever, Xenu put a big bowl of diamonds in the middle of the first Zeta Reticulan compound and said, “Of all the other jewels and minerals, you may eat, but stay away from my precious big bowl of diamonds! Keep your grubby, six-handed selves away! SRSLY!”

Now, Grabdazh had been off collecting zinc for the evening feast, and has missed Xenu’s stern warning about the big bowl of diamonds. So when Grabdazh returned that evening, and saw the big bowl of diamonds, he was very intrigued. But not being very bright (actually, all of the Zeta Reticulans were rather stupid), the first thing Grabdazh did was scoop up a handful of diamonds out of that big, shiny bowl and started munching.

Let’s just say that Xenu was far from pleased.

By: Martin Fallon

Martin Fallon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:43:32 +0000

John Paul II declared one day, back in the mid-90s I think, that if Jesus had made himself known to aliens from other star-systems then they too would have been ‘Redeemed’ from their own version of the ‘Original Sin’. Talk about ‘hedging one’s bets’ XD (or ‘clutching at straws’?)
Any ideas as to what the Zeta-Reticulan Jesus would have looked like? Or how their ‘Fall’ would have come about?

By: Francesc

Francesc — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:08:14 +0000

Science? I thought HARPS is a metaphysical way to talk with God, and he just revealed those planets to us. If it is science then I don’t believe those planets exists
/mode irony off

By: zack

zack — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:19:30 +0000

Wow it’s fucking amazing how far we’ve come in 50 years. I’m so lucky to be alive in this century.

By: Nelly

Nelly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:14:43 +0000

http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/

By: Nelly

Nelly — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:07:22 +0000

why I love my job almost as much as I love my hobby

By: Olaf

Olaf — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:47:31 +0000

Some news from NASA just received:

“It’s the second planet outside our solar system in which water, methane and carbon dioxide have been found, which are potentially important for biological processes in habitable planets,” said researcher Mark Swain of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “Detecting organic compounds in two exoplanets now raises the possibility that it will become commonplace to find planets with molecules that may be tied to life.”

By: rodneyAnonymous

rodneyAnonymous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:22 +0000

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