#Science: NASA Telescope Finds Seven Earth-Like Planets, Three of Which Are In Habitable Zone

Not too far away, either. Well, in relative terms.

Scientists were alerted to scan this particular area of the sky when they received this radio broadcast, encoded in binary numbers:

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
BUT JUST KEEP CHRIS CUOMO'S DIRTY DICK
AWAY FROM OUR DAUGHTER'S CHANGING ROOMS

By the way, I think scientists have hopes that all of the planets are possibly habitable. But three are "firmly" in the habitable zone, so they're the most likely candidates.

Posted by: Ace at 06:54 PM

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1
Frist!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:47 PM (mbhDw)

2 Didn't we lose a planet with Obama? And one month into Trump's term we gain 7. So. Much. Winning.

Posted by: scofflaw_x at February 23, 2017 06:48 PM (y9ZJX)

3 Secondary?

Posted by: jwb7605 at February 23, 2017 06:48 PM (DofIg)

4 Greetings:

So maybe that Obama-mandated outreach to Muslims has a real future.

Posted by: 11B40 at February 23, 2017 06:48 PM (evgyj)

5 ALL YOUR PLANETS ARE BELONG TO US

Posted by: Roman Maroni at February 23, 2017 06:49 PM (vCA4F)

6
40 light years away so they're watching reruns of Star Trek and Jimmy Carter give away the Panama Canal. No return signals. That we know of.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:49 PM (mbhDw)

7 Scientists say the darnedest things.

Posted by: Caliban at February 23, 2017 06:49 PM (3GFMN)

8 APOD: "Explanation: Seven worlds orbit the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1"

It does appear to be wearing dark glasses in the picture.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170223.html

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 06:49 PM (sdi6R)

9 Seven, but only one was "Happy"

Posted by: Snow White at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (df+Zi)

10 4 Greetings:

So maybe that Obama-mandated outreach to Muslims has a real future.
Posted by: 11B40 at February 23, 2017 06:48 PM (evgyj)

Laugh, I saw that either the Emirates or Qatar want to start a space program.

Heh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (mbhDw)

11 Let me know when they find an earthlike planet with a moonlike satellite.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (cAnNx)

12 Aren't their orbits between 1.5 days and 20 days? Wouldn't this cause a huge problem?

Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (Dj5/i)

13 We were discussing this at work. "Well I'll never have a chance to go", said one.

But what if we're entering into one of those really accelerated periods of scientific discovery? I mean, of course we are, but what if it really picks up and FTL travel is discovered far earlier than projected?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (EnKk6)

14
I thought the dwarf star was Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-uh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (mbhDw)

15 Load up all the SJWs onto a slow boat and send them on their way.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (P/kVC)

16 This is big! I'm coming back.

Posted by: Gustav Holst at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (3GFMN)

17 Hey, I gave a young intern a pearl necklace

Posted by: Quick Draw Billy C. at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (8ikIW)

18 #8
So, an ultracool dwarf planet.
Robert Reich's stepbrother planet?

Posted by: Roman Maroni at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (vCA4F)

19 @5 Lotta computer power wasted with SETI at Home back in the 90's if all we had to do was say "MAIN SCREEN TURN ON" the whole time.

Posted by: Cjw at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (130AC)

20 ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS

BUT JUST KEEP CHRIS CUOMO'S DIRTY DICK

AWAY FROM OUR DAUGHTER'S CHANGING ROOMS

Wow! Is that true???

Posted by: The Incredibly Stupid Sarah Silverman at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (qJhUV)

21 Heard this yesterday and was amazed they found these only 40 light yesrs away. First by land telescope then space telescope , way cool.

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (HDU3V)

22 Aren't their orbits between 1.5 days and 20 days? Wouldn't this cause a huge problem?

Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (Dj5/i)

Not for a watch maker.

Posted by: BignJames at February 23, 2017 06:51 PM (x9c8r)

23 Is Chris Cuomo giving his daughter a pearl necklace for Christmas?

Posted by: JuJuBee at February 23, 2017 06:52 PM (dargh)

24 Did they find the Planet of the Apes?

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 23, 2017 06:52 PM (3GFMN)

25 Not too far away, either. Well, in relative terms.

Yeah. 40 light years. Approx 240 TRILLION miles.
12.346 parsecs.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 06:52 PM (WFe5M)

26 Hell, you could make the Kessel run in 12.346 parsecs

Posted by: Roman Maroni at February 23, 2017 06:53 PM (vCA4F)

27 25 Not too far away, either. Well, in relative terms.

Yeah. 40 light years. Approx 240 TRILLION miles.
12.346 parsecs.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 06:52 PM (WFe5M)

If we only had a dollar for every mile, we'd have the national debt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:53 PM (mbhDw)

28 Ace, I'm surprised you have laid off ESPN shaming the hetero WNBA player for quitting and blowing the whistle on the 98% militant lesbian that makes up the WNBA forcing her to quit.

I bring this up because ESPN and the fact that this does bleed into high school girls who play basketball (it's a dirty secret that's been brushed under the rug for a couple of decades).

Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:54 PM (Dj5/i)

29 Long ago many speculated stars didn't have planets, but I always figured this one did why didn't all the others?

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (HDU3V)

30 I already called dibs!

Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (dEQP3)

31 Can we call one of them New Pluto?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (ul9CR)

32 Yawn. Might as well be talking about the plot of the new Avatar movie. Which also doesn't interest me.

I think I might be in a bad mood.

Posted by: Dang at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (/qAt8)

33 Yeah. 40 light years. Approx 240 TRILLION miles.

12.346 parsecs.

Posted by: rickb223

Most are toll roads though.

Someones gonna have to go back and get a whole shitload of dimes

Posted by: Quick Draw Billy C. at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (8ikIW)

34
Will there be hives of scum and villainy?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (mbhDw)

35 Finally a planet we can be proud of, whose infrastructure will not be built using the exploitation of slave labor!

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (usV/H)

36
NASA is full of shit.

Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (pC8Yc)

37 Most are toll roads though.

Someones gonna have to go back and get a whole shitload of dimes

*snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (WFe5M)

38 The Seven Planets in the War of The Seven Planets.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (qUNWi)

39 Have we named one Arrakis yet?

Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2017 06:57 PM (eGfTO)

40 Sunrise must be a bitch on planet "b". At least judging by that video....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2017 06:57 PM (sK2fh)

41 NASA is full of shit.

Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.
--

And all conveniently trillions of light years away.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 23, 2017 06:57 PM (10LGw)

42 There's a couple observatories nearby that host public nights. I'd always wanted to attend, but this news has pushed me to reserve a spot.

One of the observatories is not far from Sheriff Joe the Paste Eater's house.

Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (kD8Fh)

43 36
NASA is full of shit.

Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (pC8Yc)

ILM got paid off to create CGI planets. They get a percentage of federal money given to NASA for the project.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (mbhDw)

44 Long ago many speculated stars didn't have planets, but I always figured this one did why didn't all the others?
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (HDU3V)

Actually, I think the notion of other worlds has been around since the Middle Ages. I seem to recall Saint Augustine of Saint Aquinas considering the question of other life. Certainly John Milton mentions the idea in Paradise Lost, so by at least the 17th century.

Posted by: Eddie Murphy at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (Tnhbr)

45 Will there be hives of scum and villainy?

With rum, sodomy & the lash?
Posted by: Zoot. Wicked, naughty Zoot.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (WFe5M)

46 >>I bring this up because ESPN and the fact that this does bleed into high school girls who play basketball (it's a dirty secret that's been brushed under the rug for a couple of decades).

I think you mean 'Bumped Up Against' the rug.

Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (eGfTO)

47 Off, sock!

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (Tnhbr)

48 When is Cher leaving?

Posted by: Jean at February 23, 2017 06:58 PM (zZb/S)

49 Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (pC8Yc)

yeah but I think a lot of them are not in the right places to even be considered good for life.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (aMlLZ)

50 30 I already called dibs!
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 06:55 PM (dEQP3)

------------

All of these planets are inhabited by face-sized spiders.

Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (Fmupd)

51 I love the part at 1:14

Wow.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (ul9CR)

52 Are we sure one of these planets isn't really Brian Dennehy?

Posted by: Killerdog at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (kIyp0)

53 Klaatu barada nikto!

Posted by: Bosk at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (n2K+4)

54 Obama will figure out a way to get there. It'll be a 500 trillion dollar stimulus, but these are shovel ready planets.

Posted by: mallfly roddingham clinton at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (b7fwp)

55 Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:54 PM (Dj5/i)

The end is near for SJWism, out of white males to demonize they now must start eating their own.

Two stories on ESPN back to back: Lesbians Bully Straights followed by Black Male QB Encourages Boys to Act Manly

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (usV/H)

56 50
All of these planets are inhabited by face-sized spiders.
Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (Fmupd)

Wait. One of those planets IS a fa--

(END OF TRANSMISSION)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (mbhDw)

57 yeah but I think a lot of them are not in the right places to even be considered good for life.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division

As long as there's no damn dirty apes!!

Posted by: Bruce at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (8ikIW)

58 Now that we're somewhat credible again, we'll need more of your money to further research these newly found outworlds that may contain the cures for cancer and premature babies.

Posted by: NASA at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (UOJLJ)

59 I'll go to one. Couldn't be worse than Texas. 80 degrees in bloody FEBRUARY! No snow. No winter. But I lost the argument when we had to leave Delaware. HATE the weather here.

Posted by: Empire1 at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (pIvJ2)

60 52 Are we sure one of these planets isn't really Brian Dennehy?
Posted by: Killerdog at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (kIyp0)

"Burp! Yes."

- - Tubby Riefenstahl

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (mbhDw)

61 yeah but I think a lot of them are not in the right places to even be considered good for life.
Posted by: Berserker

Which is why they coined the term "Goldilocks Zone", aka, just right.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (WFe5M)

62 All of these planets are inhabited by face-sized spiders.
Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (Fmupd)

And soon enough they will be complaining about the invasion of the giant alien monkeys with faces the size of a whole spider!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (sK2fh)

63 There be 40 year old aliens among us.

Posted by: Fritz at February 23, 2017 07:01 PM (2Bv92)

64 We need to fire up the Project Orion NOW!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 23, 2017 07:01 PM (lpjHy)

65 @6 40 light years away so they're watching reruns of Star Trek and Jimmy Carter give away the Panama Canal. No return signals. That we know of.
------------------

So long as they don't build a starship that looks like the Enterprise, and try to recruit William Shatner to fight their intergalactic war for them...

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:01 PM (nsZ+m)

66 40 light years, yeah that's a cruise. 40 years at the speed of light.

Hey, maybe we can do the reverse horse and carrot thing. Have the ships drag a pic of lena dunham. I'm thinking instant warp 9 there.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:01 PM (aMlLZ)

67 They found the 'Verse. Let's go!

Posted by: Serenity Firefly at February 23, 2017 07:01 PM (W7fsD)

68
Worm holes. We need worm holes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:02 PM (mbhDw)

69 They found the 'Verse. Let's go!
Posted by: Serenity Firefly

I aim to misbehave.
May have been on the losing side.
Not convinced it was the wrong side.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (WFe5M)

70 If we don't admit at least 100,000 Muslims each year to these planets immediately, the 9th Circus may have to rule on the issue.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (usV/H)

71 28 Ace, I'm surprised you have laid off ESPN shaming the hetero WNBA player for quitting and blowing the whistle on the 98% militant lesbian that makes up the WNBA forcing her to quit.

I bring this up because ESPN and the fact that this does bleed into high school girls who play basketball (it's a dirty secret that's been brushed under the rug for a couple of decades).
Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:54 PM (Dj5/i)

I remember when the OSU women's basketball coach was fired because she was screwing some of the players.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (dKiJG)

72
Who wants to bet that all 7 of these planets are as habitable and earth-like as Mars?

So if I'm right, then what does it matter if we can't even get to or do anything with the godam planet that's right next door to us?

I mean, is this existing because we fantasize that humanoid life exists on these 7 planets? Well, that's nice.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (pC8Yc)

73 36
Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (pC8Yc)

They keep finding more and more exoplanets, as they improve their search techniques and the sensitivity of their instruments. At first they could only find giant planets the size of Jupiter or larger, but now they're beginning to find smaller planets closer to Earth's size.

Per Wikipedia:
The first scientific detection of an exoplanet was in 1988. However, the first confirmed detection came in 1992; since then, and as of 22 February 2017, there have been 3,583 exoplanets in 2,688 planetary systems and 603 multiple planetary systems confirmed.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/zoalf7o

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (sdi6R)

74 fuck them. who says these are planets?

by the way, Pluto is a planet.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (cPsPa)

75 >>Worm holes. We need worm holes.

On it.

But. What we really need are bigger worms.

Posted by: Hope Solo at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (eGfTO)

76 And now, to clarify:

What really happened is that the space telescope took photographs of dark objects that appear to be planets in transit across a star. This analysis is supported by gravity and other measurements showing distortions like what scientists expect to be around planets.

what they don't have are pictures of planets. Its too far away, its like seeing a BB from an airplane at 45,000 feet. If you have a really, REALLY good telescope, you might see a vague shape against a very high contrast item as it goes past.

Are they planets? Yeah, probably, but nobody knows for sure, let alone anything about them beyond extremely vague guesses about size.

So: scientists found 7 planet-appearing objects at vast distance and reporters understood about 1 out of every 4 words so went nuts yelling about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (39g3+)

77 We just decommissioned the Enterprise, so it would be fitting to build the next one as a star ship.

Posted by: Jean at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (zZb/S)

78 The supercool dwarf star is Peter Dinklage, of course.

Posted by: josephistan at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (ANIFC)

79 65 @6 40 light years away so they're watching reruns of Star Trek and Jimmy Carter give away the Panama Canal.

Nah, they're arguing about whether Matt and Miss Kitty were just friends.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (97XyN)

80 I'm thinking a new home for GITMO

Posted by: nsirchov at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (BGUo0)

81 what's more, have heard several reporters comment that the planets in the video above are actually photographs.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (cPsPa)

82 Was engaged in some late night whiskey-fueled speculation on technical topics with geeky friends. One of which is evergreen: how to get up the gravity well at something a lot less costly than the current utterly ridiculous price per kilogram to LEO.

Of course, the classic Project Orion concept was brought up. Nuclear pulsedrive with tiny hydrogen bombs being sequentially kicked out and detonated behind the vehicle.

I observed that, unfortunately, at the present state of the art, it isn't possible to make a purely clean fusion device; even the most efficient in terms of their percentage fusion yield still have to have a fission initiator. Any such vehicle would perforce leave a prominent trail of radioactively dirty exhaust as it ascended.

Heads nodded in assent, then someone said, "It's someone else's problem if you never intend to come back."

A-fuckin'-men.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (noWW6)

83 Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:03 PM (dKiJG)

OSU or LSU?

Are you thinking about Pokie?

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (usV/H)

84
Intelligent life 40 light years away? Hell, there isn't even intelligent life in Washington DC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (mbhDw)

85 7 planets surrounding a cold, dead star. This is where our Global Warming tricks are going to come in handy.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (/tuJf)

86 >>I bring this up because ESPN and the fact that this does bleed into high school girls who play basketball

That's not how it works!

Posted by: That 'Ette From the Yoga/Menses Thread at February 23, 2017 07:05 PM (eGfTO)

87 >>> So long as they don't build a starship that looks like the Enterprise, and try to recruit William Shatner to fight their intergalactic war for them...

William who?

Posted by: Jason Nesmith at February 23, 2017 07:05 PM (jw2Xw)

88 We just decommissioned the Enterprise, so it would be fitting to build the next one as a star ship.

That would be cool.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:05 PM (WFe5M)

89 81 what's more, have heard several reporters comment that the planets in the video above are actually photographs.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (cPsPa)

Graduates of the Sheila Jackson Lee School of Photographic Reconnaissance and Interpretation, no doubt.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:05 PM (mbhDw)

90 they are not planets, they are either dyson sphere prototypes or pyramids.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (cPsPa)

91 All of these planets are inhabited by face-sized spiders.
Posted by: Soona at February 23, 2017 06:59 PM (Fmupd)

YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH

Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (dEQP3)

92 40 light years......WE sure as shit aren't going there---that's 250 TRILLION miles.

But mebbe THEY are hearing our "I Love Lucy" and "Peter Gunn" theme songs and their signals are coming back to us.

Someone in the SETI crowd ought to turning their antennae in that direction.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (611Lm)

93 But what if we're entering into one of those really accelerated periods of scientific discovery? I mean, of course we are, but what if it really picks up and FTL travel is discovered far earlier than projected?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 06:50 PM (EnKk6)

Never say never, and we're coming up with new stuff at a logarithmic pace, but:

We haven't been back to the moon in 45 years and could not physically do it with the equipment we have on the shelf right now.

We haven't set foot on Mars, and could not physically do it with the equipment we have on the shelf right now.

Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

Bags.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (8nWyX)

94 88 We just decommissioned the Enterprise, so it would be fitting to build the next one as a star ship.

That would be cool.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:05 PM (WFe5M)

"May I have 10,000 Estes D Engines, please?"

- - Commodore Kent Dorfman

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (mbhDw)

95 >>>BUT JUST KEEP CHRIS CUOMO'S DIRTY DICK
AWAY FROM OUR DAUGHTER'S CHANGING ROOMS

Hey, if you think it's traumatic for a 12 year old girl to see a penis, just imagine how traumaticit must have been for me as a one year old girl to see my own penis!

That is why we must support the right of children to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at February 23, 2017 07:06 PM (vRcUp)

96 On one of those planets there is an internet commenter called Mirror Universe Mirror Universe Mitt Romney.

He's totally rational.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (wPiJc)

97 75% of these inhabitable planets are out of mankind's reach even using the most cutting edge methods of spaceship propulsion.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Neil Degrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (/f1mm)

98 Good evening, all. I'll take Planet G.

It's a crap shoot. I don't care. What a day it's been.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (PY9jH)

99 Planets are supposedly by products of star formation. You might as well assume every frigging star got planets orbiting it. Its only a matter of time before they find earth Mk II.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (aMlLZ)

100 79 65 @6 40 light years away so they're watching reruns of Star Trek and Jimmy Carter give away the Panama Canal.

Nah, they're arguing about whether Matt and Miss Kitty were just friends.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (97XyN)

Soon they will be watching the good Star Wars.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (cAnNx)

101 maxine waters issued press release saying all the inhabitants of these planets and the planets themselves are all scumbags.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (cPsPa)

102 Heads nodded in assent, then someone said, "It's someone else's problem if you never intend to come back."

A sane attitude.

Posted by: Jor-El at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (TppKb)

103 81 what's more, have heard several reporters comment that the planets in the video above are actually photographs.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (cPsPa)

I believe that.

That reporters would say that, I mean.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (sdi6R)

104 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Neil Tyson hardest hit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (39g3+)

105 Graduates of the Sheila Jackson Lee School of Photographic Reconnaissance and Interpretation, no doubt.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February

heh.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (cPsPa)

106 Graduates of the Sheila Jackson Lee School of Photographic Reconnaissance and Interpretation, no doubt.

Can you see all the flags?

Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (qJhUV)

107 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (usV/H)

108 >>Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

That's nothing. We have people in parts of the world who are unclear on the process of wiping their asses.

I would never have thought this would need a lot of instruction to master.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (/tuJf)

109
SETI actually discovered a signal from the planets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOKPTbZEyA

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (mbhDw)

110 OT -

This got willowed in the last thread. Figured I'd throw it back.

23-year old Russian model gets in trouble after taking pictures and video of herself dangling off of a Dubai skyscraper for her Instagram.

http://tinyurl.com/j9nszsq

(link goes to MSN article with video)

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (nsZ+m)

111 That reminds me: I still haven't beaten FTL.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (/f1mm)

112 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Neil Tyson hardest hit.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February

damn straight. fucking scientists.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (cPsPa)

113 One thing I like about THE EXPANSE is that the Mormons build a giant Generation Ship so they can leave Earth because of the restrictions on kids.

I believe that in the future it will be a religious exodus from Earth, if it is possible.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (dKiJG)

114 You might as well assume every frigging star got planets orbiting it. Its only a matter of time before they find earth Mk II.

Assuming their total guesswork and speculation is remotely accurate, probably yeah. They know about .00000001% about planetary formation and even other solar systems that they do about our own planet's climatary patterns, so...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (39g3+)

115 I am very pro exploration of the cosmos. However, Earth and the life that is here is a miracle. Too many people fail to appreciate just what this gift from God is.

Posted by: Locke Common at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (a/dj+)

116 Planets are supposedly by products of star formation. You might as well assume every frigging star got planets orbiting it. Its only a matter of time before they find earth Mk II.
Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (aMlLZ)

Earth II is hidden on the far side of the Sun. Just ask John Norman fans.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (Tnhbr)

117 Hey, if you think it's traumatic for a 12 year old girl to see a penis

Oh come on, who knows WHAT sex organs look like on those planets?

Aside from the Japanese, who have every possible form of intercourse figured out.

Posted by: Jor-El at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (TppKb)

118 32 Yawn. Might as well be talking about the plot of the new Avatar movie.

---------

Yes.
About as interesting as Barbra Streisand munching on a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Sancho at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (e8VEY)

119 has anyone researched whether any of these planets are likely to capsize if we colonize them?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (cPsPa)

120 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (usV/H)

C.S. Lewis disagrees.

Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (dEQP3)

121 118
Yes.
About as interesting as Barbra Streisand munching on a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Sancho at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (e8VEY)

Now, if she were choking on them, that would make for appointment television.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (mbhDw)

122 Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

You got a problem with milk bags? I'm partial to them myself.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (usV/H)

123 @107 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.
-------------------

There's nothing in Christianity that says there aren't other inhabited worlds. And the idea that they exist is an actual part of LDS theology.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (nsZ+m)

124 New planets. 40 light years away.

Star Rider - Foreigner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIY2YmRJ-o

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (7N6ox)

125 About as interesting as Barbra Streisand munching on a bag of dicks.

Okay, that'd be worth an Oscar.

Posted by: JEM when will my sockfails end! at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (TppKb)

126 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity. /i]

If Christianity is true, then all they'll find is more proof it is, like they've been doing the last 200 years of scientific research. Every time someone sets out to disprove the Bible they keep finding ore evidence its accurate and factual.

David never existed! Oops, found proof.
Bethleham was never there! Oops found proof.

on and on it goes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:10 PM (39g3+)

127 Yeah. 40 light years. Approx 240 TRILLION miles.
12.346 parsecs.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 06:52 PM (WFe5M)

Pffft. I did the Kessel run in less than that.

Posted by: Han S. at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (5hokv)

128 Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

well, are the bags atached to cows?

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (cPsPa)

129 Oh, he-SHEs. I thought we were talking about Heechees.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (/f1mm)

130
Don't they discover these supposebly earth-like planets at regular intervals, now. It seems like every few months it happens.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 06:56 PM (pC8Yc)

At budget approval time, mostly.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (cuZZW)

131 104 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM (39g3+)

Pluto turned out to have a shockingly complex surface. I would have bet money that it would be just an iceball covered with craters.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (sdi6R)

132 @116
Earth II is hidden on the far side of the Sun. Just ask John Norman fans.
--------------------

Also, Marvel Comics.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (nsZ+m)

133 I left my Xenis on Xanadu.

Posted by: Chrissy Cuomo at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (Tyii7)

134 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent

And to think that out of all the stars and planets in the known solar system that God put ONLY us on this rock is the height of hubris.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (WFe5M)

135 Isn't this the system where they picked up Ashley Judd after she offered to blow every swinging dick in Star Fleet?

Posted by: Fritz at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (2Bv92)

136 128 Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

well, are the bags atached to cows?
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (cPsPa)

Are they called Fun Bags, peut-etre?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (mbhDw)

137 Are any of them trans-planets so Brianna Wu can have a comfortable home?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (qpXD6)

138 111 That reminds me: I still haven't beaten FTL.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (/f1mm)

I was a cheap bastard and just played it on easy. I beat it with every ship and just about every configuration.

Now I'm just a cheating bastard and got the cheat file that disables the rebel fleet pursuit so you can hit every single system in each sector.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (cAnNx)

139
OSU or LSU?

Are you thinking about Pokie?
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:04 PM (usV/H)

THE Ohio State University.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (dKiJG)

140 132 @116
Earth II is hidden on the far side of the Sun. Just ask John Norman fans.
--------------------

Also, Marvel Comics.
Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:11 PM (nsZ+m)

Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring approve that message.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (mbhDw)

141 Pluto turned out to have a shockingly complex surface. I would have bet money that it would be just an iceball covered with craters./i]

Yep. That's what we get for trusting a planetarium narrator with defining our planets.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (39g3+)

142 Of course there's life elsewhere in the Universe. There can't not be.

What does the have to do with God existing or not existing?

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (qUNWi)

143 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (usV/H)

what I find amusing is that, oftentimes, the same people who are militantly opposed to the idea of creation are willing to accept that really advanced space aliens started life on earth.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:13 PM (cPsPa)

144 That Glenn Miller stuff is too cool. Makes me want to order another dirink! yep!

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:13 PM (EaQ6/)

145 More holes to drill! Drill baby drill!

Posted by: George Takei at February 23, 2017 07:13 PM (bc2Lc)

146 As was posted in another thread:

"Hold my beer."
- God

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:13 PM (/f1mm)

147 Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

Pretty much all large-scale commercial spoochy-foods are in bags. Soups, mashed potatoes, milk, some juices, etc.

Bags or sometimes buckets.

Posted by: JEM when will my sockfails end! at February 23, 2017 07:13 PM (TppKb)

148 What's up JJ. Long time and no type

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (zv81W)

149 Ark B.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (LTHVh)

150
When they can make a McDonalds French Fry that retains its delicious for more than 6 minutes I'll believe in space exploration in my lifetime.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (pC8Yc)

151 142 Of course there's life elsewhere in the Universe. There can't not be.

What does the have to do with God existing or not existing?
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (qUNWi)

I used to think that. Not until it's discovered and verified. In any case, I believe that the entire universe is an hologram and that we do not exist.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (mbhDw)

152 THE Ohio State University.

Same thing happened at LSU with Pokry Chatman.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (usV/H)

153 Step 1) build a starship

Step 2) entice all the leftists to get on the start ship to colonize a new world.

Step 3) Never hear from them again because, let's face it, the fucktards would end up crashing the spaceship into the sun arguing over who gets to sit in the Captains' chair, the gay black man, or the quadriplegic Arab woman.

Posted by: Astro Mike at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (UgF8H)

154 Are any of them trans-planets so Brianna Wu can have a comfortable home?

None of these are far enough away.

Posted by: JEM when will my sockfails end! at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (TppKb)

155 Let me know when they find an earthlike planet with a moonlike satellite.

Perhaps the cluster of outer planets might provide the same kind of protection from meteors, etc for the inner ones that the moon provides for us? I don't know, I'm just speculating.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (QGamW)

156 148 What's up JJ. Long time and no type
Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 23, 2017 07:14 PM (zv81W)

Say, what? I'm here all morning and into the evenings. Or just the last couple of posts?

I'm fine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (mbhDw)

157 Of course there's life elsewhere in the Universe. There can't not be.

What does the have to do with God existing or not existing?
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM (qUNWi)

who knows.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (cPsPa)

158 The one thing that C.S. Lewis got right was that we woul oppress minority races on other planets! Not bad for an uptight Victorian white religious fanatic.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (vRcUp)

159 I am very pro exploration of the cosmos. However, Earth and the life that is here is a miracle. Too many people fail to appreciate just what this gift from God is.

Posted by: Locke Common at February 23, 2017 07:09 PM (a/dj+)

well, 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and billions of other galaxies with billions of stars. We might not be all that rare. With the age of the universe at around 13-15 billion years there could be races that died out millions of years ago, that were millions of years more advanced than us. I would think life may not be the norm, but no way are we all there is out there.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (aMlLZ)

160 I'll go to one. Couldn't be worse than Texas. 80 degrees in bloody FEBRUARY! No snow. No winter. But I lost the argument when we had to leave Delaware. HATE the weather here.
Posted by: Empire1 at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (pIvJ2)

You're joking, right? 88 right now. Perfect.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 23, 2017 07:16 PM (5hokv)

161 When they can make a McDonalds French Fry that retains its delicious for more than 6 minutes I'll believe in space exploration in my lifetime.

For me it's desalinization. If we can't solve that we certainly can't colonize a planet.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:16 PM (qUNWi)

162 Step 3) Never hear from them again because, let's face it, the fucktards
would end up crashing the spaceship into the sun arguing over who gets
to sit in the Captains' chair, the gay black man, or the quadriplegic
Arab woman.

And using leaves for money. Stop me if you've heard this before.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2017 07:16 PM (QGamW)

163 '142 Of course there's life elsewhere in the Universe. There can't not be. '

I'm pretty sure there is life on Uranus.

Asshole hats! Get yer asshole hats!

Posted by: Ashhole hat vendor at February 23, 2017 07:16 PM (BO/km)

164 I'll go to one. Couldn't be worse than Texas. 80 degrees in bloody FEBRUARY! No snow. No winter. But I lost the argument when we had to leave Delaware. HATE the weather here.
Posted by: Empire1 at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (pIvJ2)

few things worse than winter without snow.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (cPsPa)

165 Wait until the JWST is on orbit and snooping around. Spitzer (which made the current discoveries) has a three-foot mirror and a thirty foot focal length. JWST has a twenty-foot mirror and a focal length of almost 450 feet.

Excuse me while I whip this out.

Posted by: Afroman at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (gjAPN)

166 I have always thought that there is just as much chance that we are the only intelligent life in the physical universe as there being lots. Someone has to be first.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (LTHVh)

167 lmao... I'm in a FB fight in an article about the guy that shot up a bar and killed one..a Pakistani, in my neighboring great state of Kansas. Apparently he yelled get out of my country before he started shooting. And of course.. this is all Trump's fault and his supporters. I've been called stupid, idiot, racist etc. These people are so fucked up.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (CNHr1)

168 "what's more, have heard several reporters comment that the planets in the video above are actually photographs"

A couple of years ago, JPL was trying to scrounge funding for an outer-planets probe mission, and they had a congresscritter on one of the relevant committees personally come to Pasadena to hear their pitch.

They had a computer animation of the probe doing a planetary flyby, on which they'd spent a lot of time, as they'd learned in the past that Beltway big cheeses get bored really fast with dry technical descriptions, but just eat up the polished visuals.

This one backfired.

The Beltway big cheese watched the animation, and then exclaimed in delight, "This is great! We don't actually have to spend the money to launch a probe! We can just simulate it all in the computer and get all the scientific answers we need that way!"

::: facepalm :::

Posted by: torquewrench at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (noWW6)

169
For me it's desalinization. If we can't solve that we certainly can't colonize a planet.

We can't even prevent these massive stupid forest fires every year!

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (pC8Yc)

170 Over 12 parsecs? So longer than the Kessel Run. Han will need to make a pit stop or two.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (qpXD6)

171 Step 1) build a starship

Step 2) entice all the leftists to get on the start ship to colonize a new world.

Step 3) Never hear from them again because, let's face it, the fucktards would end up crashing the spaceship into the sun arguing over who gets to sit in the Captains' chair, the gay black man, or the quadriplegic Arab woman.
Posted by: Astro Mike

Might you have a newsletter that one might subscribe to?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (WFe5M)

172 who knows.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (cPsPa)

The Shadow?

Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (dEQP3)

173 Now I'm just a cheating bastard and got the cheat file that disables the rebel fleet pursuit so you can hit every single system in each sector.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:12 PM

I'm not a great gamer, but I try to play everything on normal since I figure that's the "experience" that was intended. I really, really suck at FTL, though. It's very compelling to me, but I'm just not very good at it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (/f1mm)

174 https://tinyurl.com/hqyuxb2

____________________________

Bannon: Trump administration is in unending battle for 'deconstruction of the administrative state'

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (y3aQB)

175 This article is just TOO preliminary.

Alert me when you find green-skinned girls in silver bikinis.

Until then, it's hardly newsworthy.

Posted by: RKae at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (4DpAT)

176 Yeah they are working on better telescopes, which in my mind is probably the best possible use for our current shoddy and pathetic level of space travel.

Seriously, we went from horses to the moon in 100 years, and in the last 40 have .... orbited a few times. But we have bitchen phones!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (39g3+)

177 147 Canadians are still buying milk in bags. Milk. In bags.

Carnation Milk. Best in the land.
Comes to the table in a little, red can.
No teats to pull, no hay to pitch.
Just punch a hole in the son-of-a-bitch!

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid, cowboy poet at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (uB+td)

178 @166 I have always thought that there is just as much chance that we are the only intelligent life in the physical universe as there being lots. Someone has to be first.
--------------------

Someone does have to be first. But the universe (and the Milky Way) has been around long enough that the "first" should have been someone else by now.

Thus, the Fermi Paradox.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (nsZ+m)

179 Soooo. When these ships take off, are the cheap bastards still going to charge me for a carry on bag?
Will they serve a meal, or it it 3 pretzels in a bag, and a 4 ounces of soda?
Will the TSA be involved in any way?

I need to know

Posted by: Bruce at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (8ikIW)

180 Humans have a hard time accepting that we may be the only intelligent life there is in the galaxy, maybe even in the universe. That it even happened here on Earth was more or less a miracle.

Loved the Glenn Miller.

Posted by: Tuna at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (jm1YL)

181
We can't even escape our own atmosphere without strapping ourselves to huge missiles.

We can't even re-enter our own atmosphere without a fiery death-defying feat.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (pC8Yc)

182
The Beltway big cheese watched the animation, and then exclaimed in delight, "This is great! We don't actually have to spend the money to launch a probe! We can just simulate it all in the computer and get all the scientific answers we need that way!"

::: facepalm :::
Posted by: torquewrench at February

heh

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (cPsPa)

183 143 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.

I'm not sure he is incorrect.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (usV/H

I think it's more likely God keeps us walked off so we don't spoil the rest of his creation too

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (Y0sQt)

184
"Just remember that you're standing,
on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,

It's orbiting, it's reckoned,
at 90 miles a second,
a sun that is the source of all our power,

The sun and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour
in the galaxy we call the Milky Way . . ."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (mbhDw)

185 155 Let me know when they find an earthlike planet with a moonlike satellite.

Perhaps the cluster of outer planets might provide the same kind of protection from meteors, etc for the inner ones that the moon provides for us? I don't know, I'm just speculating.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (QGamW)

Its not just the meteor protection. Jupiter is probably more important for protection from devastating impacts actually. I bet if you removed the oceans and vegetation across the earth its surface wouldn't look all that different from the moon anyways.

The moon also provide stability to our rotation and is likely much more important for life than meteor impacts.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (cAnNx)

186 Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (Tnhbr)

187 Walked = walled. Stupid artrocurrekt

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (Y0sQt)

188 >>>>>Perhaps the cluster of outer planets might provide the same kind of
protection from meteors, etc for the inner ones that the moon provides
for us?<<<<

The tide seems to be important for life so you need moons for that, too. Although, these planets are so close together that they may create tidal action on each other.

Kinky.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (x3uSY)

189 I'll go to one. Couldn't be worse than Texas. 80 degrees in bloody FEBRUARY! No snow. No winter. But I lost the argument when we had to leave Delaware. HATE the weather here.
Posted by: Empire1 at February 23, 2017 07:00 PM (pIvJ2)

few things worse than winter without snow.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:17 PM (cPsPa)

Don't have to worry about having a heart attack shoveling sunshine off the driveway.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (WFe5M)

190 186 Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (Tnhbr)

DUDE! This >

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (mbhDw)

191
btw, I love sci-fi.

I even still listen to old sci-fi radio shows from the 50's.

But the stuff NASA embellishes irks me.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (pC8Yc)

192 Even if there is breathable atmosphere, the pressure, or lack thereof, will kill you.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (HgMAr)

193 choose your hookups carefully.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4254236

Posted by: JEM at February 23, 2017 07:20 PM (TppKb)

194 Damnit, Sefton beat me to it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (Tnhbr)

195 107 My BIL always theorizes the whole "life on other planets" exploration is about discrediting creationism and Christianity.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:08 PM (usV/H)

I remember my grandmother telling me that we would never go to the moon, because it was not a part of God's plan. This was in 1967 or 68.

I think her error was assuming she knew what God's plan was.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (sdi6R)

196
> < THIS FUCKING CLOSE!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (mbhDw)

197 Its all balanced in an unbelievably complex system that would require extremely little in the way of alteration to ruin everything. I think life is much, much, much much more rare than people want to think of, requiring exquisitely exact circumstances which we take for granted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (39g3+)

198 I think it's more likely God keeps us walked off so we don't spoil the rest of his creation too
Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (Y0sQt)

I think there is more evidence daily in support of the Zoo Theory of humanity.

Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravage at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (dEQP3)

199 194 Damnit, Sefton beat me to it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (Tnhbr)

My wife and I do that song at parties. People seem entertained. Or frightened. No sure which.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)

200 Someone does have to be first. But the universe (and the Milky Way) has been around long enough that the "first" should have been someone else by now.

The odds of intelligent life may be 1 in 1 million billion trillion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)

201 Drink your protein shakes and put your helmet on.

Posted by: Major Tom Cuomo at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (Tyii7)

202 >>Don't have to worry about having a heart attack shoveling sunshine off the driveway.

True. But I've also never had to watch out for rattlesnakes while shoveling the snow.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (/tuJf)

203 God gave us all of this, for us to dominate, to rule, to go forth (or fifth!) and have fun and occupy ourselves with his glorious creation. Otherwise it's just all an accident, or maybe dumb luck that one out of every billion particles and anti-particles avoided, somehow, coming back together and annihilating themselves in those early, early moments of the Universes' creation. I'm in favor of believing that we were meant to do the walk of life. Why would a God give us a closed in little ball of dust, in the middle of nowhere, in an obscure galaxy, far, far away, if He (She?) didn't intend for us to pull our shit together at some point and go sailing out there? I'm optimistic that there is enough time. No one here will ever see it, but we'll be in the rain maybe (Jimmy Webb).

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (EaQ6/)

204 My wife and I do that song at parties. People seem entertained. Or frightened. No sure which.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)

Either they're entertained... or you and your wife are.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (Tnhbr)

205 Quite frankly don't give a shit about this as this discovery has zero impact on my life and I firmly believe earth is the only planet in the universe with life on it as being in the "habitable" zone is merely the base starting point of the complete imrobability of life and existence.

Posted by: Kreplach at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (+lv+r)

206 200
The odds of intelligent life may be 1 in 1 million billion trillion.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)

At least it's better than a trillion billion million.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (mbhDw)

207 I expect eventually, if we have time and actually get out traveling in space (seems doubtful at this point), eventually we'll encounter life somewhere else. We might even find something as complex as a worm. But intelligence? I don't believe we'll ever run into any more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

208 "most likely to have liquid water"

And

"All seven planets could have liquid water"

I remember the same language when it was announced that "Water was discovered on Mars". The subsequent articles then went on to describe how "scientists believe might be evidence" and "is theorized that".

Its really hard to describe something as science when the only measurable are "beliefs" and "likelihoods".

Smells more like FakeScience.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (usV/H)

209 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

You would think the whole point of traveling the vastness of space to get here would be to say "Hello!"

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (5VlCp)

210 Someone does have to be first. But the universe (and the Milky Way) has been around long enough that the "first" should have been someone else by now.

Thus, the Fermi Paradox.

Which is why you have those desert drawings in South America & a possible downed craft in Area 51, along with all the UFO sightings.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (WFe5M)

211
Radar operator on planet B: Sir, the Earthlings have detected us!

Commander: You mean the ones arguing over the bathroom thing?

Radar operator: Yes sir. They're from the system we've named Fucktard 7.

Commander: Ready the armada!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (kTF2Z)

212 I will spread my seed! Unlike my character in 'Star Trek'. That was a TV show. Not real life. Sorry Trekkies. Get a life!

Posted by: The Shat at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (bc2Lc)

213 Lay in a course for the planet with the Green Skinned Pole Dancers

Posted by: Capt James T Kirk at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (Ya7zs)

214 Seven planets? What are we going to name them?
Since Uranus and Pluto are taken I suggest we start with Sphinctorus and Goofy.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (HgMAr)

215
I'm not a great gamer, but I try to play everything on normal since I figure that's the "experience" that was intended. I really, really suck at FTL, though. It's very compelling to me, but I'm just not very good at it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie at February 23, 2017 07:18 PM (/f1mm)

To be honest even the "easy" on FTL is not that easy. It will still kick your ass and even making it to the end there is no guarantee that you'll beat it.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (cAnNx)

216 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

And never to a physicist or some person of import, its always some drunken bubba.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:25 PM (39g3+)

217 They're made out of meat. http://bit.ly/2lAYFAb

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:25 PM (LTHVh)

218 The odds of intelligent life may be 1 in 1 million billion trillion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)

At least it's better than a trillion billion million.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (mbhDw)

Hmm, a better chance of finding intelligent life there than in DC.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (7N6ox)

219
Mars - Needs - Women.

Pump Up the Volume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9gOQgfPW4Y

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (mbhDw)

220
I kinda liked how Stargate handled space travel: with a device that manipulated wormholes, not with spaceships.

But then came the spaceships.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (pC8Yc)

221 Its all balanced in an unbelievably complex system that would require extremely little in the way of alteration to ruin everything. I think life is much, much, much much more rare than people want to think of, requiring exquisitely exact circumstances which we take for granted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:21 PM (39g3+)

true, but its all based on life as WE know it. There could be life out there that isn't as fragile, and could deal with less than perfect conditions. I wouldn't want to meet them though. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (aMlLZ)

222 Say, what? I'm here all morning and into the evenings. Or just the last couple of posts?

I'm fine.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:15 PM (mbhDw)

I am just not here much anymore

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (zv81W)

223
And never to a physicist or some person of import, its always some drunken bubba.

If I saw a UFO I wouldn't tell anyone. What's the point?

They won't believe me. I'd just lose credibility.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (qUNWi)

224 The odds of intelligent life may be 1 in 1 million billion trillion.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:22 PM (LTHVh)

That's ridiculous. I demand to know the gift shop name where you work.

Posted by: Neil Degrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (/f1mm)

225
btw, we don't even know if wormholes exist. That's a sci-fi thing, yes?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (pC8Yc)

226 But intelligence? I don't believe we'll ever run into any more.

We've seen to that.

Posted by: SJWs at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (Tyii7)

227 Speculation is all well and good, but IMHO no matter how smart the people debating the existence of aliens, it's still two five-year-olds who have never left Codyville getting in a fistfight over the weather in Kabul.

We will either bump into them or not, and that's about it. Everything on *both* sides of the argument is fantasy until then.

All that aside, I hope we do manage to get there. Having more than one home seems prudent.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (wB8Tg)

228
Do black holes even exist?

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (pC8Yc)

229 Under Barak I have no doubt they would have Islamic names.

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (HDU3V)

230
213 Lay in a course for the planet with the Green Skinned Pole Dancers
Posted by: Capt James T Kirk at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (Ya7zs)

You'll go to the planet with the Moochelle Salt Sucker and like it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (mbhDw)

231 The reason that we've never heard from intelligent life is that spacefaring races haven't advanced far enough to develop radio yet. Only a few have advanced to discover gunpowder.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (Tnhbr)

232 But intelligence? I don't believe we'll ever run into any more.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

I think it's possible we could encounter intelligence, less sure that we'd recognize it if we did.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (8nWyX)

233 You're joking, right? 88 right now. Perfect.

Not joking at all. I'm miserable. I HATE hot weather, especially at night. Fifty degrees at night is perfect.

Texas weather sucks green bananas.

Lost the argument, though, so I'm stuck in the abominable heat and humuggity. Death would be preferable.

Posted by: Empire1 at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (pIvJ2)

234 181
We can't even escape our own atmosphere without strapping ourselves to huge missiles.

We can't even re-enter our own atmosphere without a fiery death-defying feat.
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (pC8Yc)

But we're gradually getting better at it. In 1960, we didn't even know if it was possible for man to survive in space at all. That's why we sent animals. If they came back alive, then maybe people could, too.

For most of human history, people put to sea in tiny, fragile ships made of wood and canvas. A storm was a life-threatening situation. Until the past few centuries, sailors were terrified to voyage out of sight of land.

Today people take ocean cruises for pleasure.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (sdi6R)

235 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

You would think the whole point of traveling the vastness of space to get here would be to say "Hello!"

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (5VlCp)

Naw, brah.

We just want to probe your anuses

and now thank to the invitation by Chris Cuomo -

waggle our junk in front of your little girls' faces.

We're pervs like that....

But, better than those guys on Rotisserie-69. Yeeesh!

Posted by: The Greys at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (vZ9Fw)

236 @209 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

You would think the whole point of traveling the vastness of space to get here would be to say "Hello!"
---------------------

Licensing and permits.

Godzilla and his buddies have permanent claim to Tokyo. So the aliens can't land there.

New York is off the list because it takes years and years to get the proper zoning permits for a UFO landing pad.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (nsZ+m)

237 228
Do black holes even exist?
Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (pC8Yc)

Don Lemon, with the cucumber, in the locker room.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (mbhDw)

238 We don't have time to dick around with all that snow. They can keep it up there.
But I will agree that the summers suck in southeast Texas. I have hated them for 61 years.

Posted by: Sancho at February 23, 2017 07:28 PM (e8VEY)

239 Wooden ships upon the water...

Posted by: Glenn John at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (LilNs)

240 OT: Got a used 1969 copy of Bored of the Rings today! I opened it up and it smelled like cheap cologne and a Fourteen of Spades fell out.

"Whatever happens," said Arrowroot, "we must keep a close watch."

The company, as a man, fell asleep.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (EnKk6)

241 Radar operator: Yes sir. They're from the system we've named Fucktard 7.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (kTF2Z)

See, this is the stuff I hate about AoSHQ.

That was a silly, infantile, faintly retarded joke, and I laughed like a drunken hyena.

Fvck you.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (rF0hx)

242 Do black holes even exist?

Almost certainly. Einstein's theories make it inevitable.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (qUNWi)

243 Anybody tell Cher about this yet?

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (HgMAr)

244 216 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

And never to a physicist or some person of import, its always some drunken bubba.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:25 PM (39g3+)

There's a big turnstile in space & the aliens are charging admission to Earth.

Posted by: josephistan at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (ANIFC)

245 "Just remember that you're standing,
on a planet that's evolving,
and revolving at 900 miles an hour,

It's orbiting, it's reckoned,
at 90 miles a second,
a sun that is the source of all our power,

The sun and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
are moving at a million miles a day,
in an outer spiral arm at 40,000 miles an hour
in the galaxy we call the Milky Way . . ."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:19 PM (mbhDw)

Life's a piece of shit
when you look at it

Posted by: Truck Monkey at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (zv81W)

246 220
I kinda liked how Stargate handled space travel: with a device that manipulated wormholes, not with spaceships.

But then came the spaceships.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (pC8Yc)

You mean the space ships that were there from the beginning? One of the biggest points of the movie being that the pyramids are landing pads for alien spaceships.

Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (cAnNx)

247 Are any of these planets Uranus-like?

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (Sfs6o)

248 With Starvate I was always waiting for Morgaine kri Chya to show up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (qpXD6)

249
It got up to 68 here today in the Boston area.
I hate it.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM (pC8Yc)

250 When you have no idea how to create life, how do you calculate the odds on the existence of life? How do you really even describe what must be in place for life to exist, when you still don't know how we exist?

To the best of my knowledge, the "scientific" theory of creation is still, more or less, spontaneous generation.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at February 23, 2017 07:30 PM (usV/H)

251 Yeah, the green skinned girls are all fun and games until one of them gives you space crabs or lays eggs in your brain.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at February 23, 2017 07:30 PM (a3sfz)

252 @220 I kinda liked how Stargate handled space travel: with a device that manipulated wormholes, not with spaceships.

But then came the spaceships.
--------------------

Spaceships were there even at the beginning. The movie had the massive space ship that lands on top of the building housing the stargate on the destination world.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:30 PM (nsZ+m)

253 213 Lay in a course for the planet with the Green Skinned Pole Dancers

Posted by: Capt James T Kirk at February 23, 2017 07:24 PM (Ya7zs)

Course laid in for the planet with the Green Skinned Pole Smokers, Captain

Posted by: Lt Sulu at February 23, 2017 07:30 PM (Ya7zs)

254
One of the biggest points of the movie being that the pyramids are landing pads for alien spaceships.

Okay, Daniel. You're right as usual.

Posted by: Soothsayer Pro Elite 2.0.001 at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (pC8Yc)

255 Radar operator: Yes sir. They're from the system we've named Fucktard 7.
...........

So we're NOT the only Fucktards out here.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (HgMAr)

256 28 Ace, I'm surprised you have laid off ESPN shaming the hetero WNBA player for quitting and blowing the whistle on the 98% militant lesbian that makes up the WNBA forcing her to quit.

I bring this up because ESPN and the fact that this does bleed into high school girls who play basketball (it's a dirty secret that's been brushed under the rug for a couple of decades).
Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot at February 23, 2017 06:54 PM (Dj5/i)

I dated a girl in the early 80s who was on a full ride basketball scholarship to USF. Very attractive but tall, of course. Had to relearn where to put your hands. Anyhoo

She was getting tired of college athletics for a range or reason, but ONE that caught my attention was that she was tired of hearing all the loud lesbian sex all the time.

Posted by: Keith at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (USf3s)

257 Do black holes even exist?

You bet.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (Tyii7)

258 Alert me when you find green-skinned girls in silver bikinis.

You were front row for Bowie in Philly in '76 too?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (gIRsn)

259 on the water -not upon

We are leaving, you don't need us.

Ha

Posted by: Glenn John at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (LilNs)

260
Watched "Arrival" yesterday. I thought at worst, it didn't suck and at best it was pretty interesting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (mbhDw)

261 No one knows how DNA exists.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:32 PM (qUNWi)

262 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Neil Tyson hardest hit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM

Really? About fucking time. Trouble is they're still gonna have to deal with the assholes in the IAU. Mind you it would be outstanding if NASA does this and just says "fuck you" to the IAU.

Posted by: otho at February 23, 2017 07:32 PM (lmIoG)

263 "Got a used 1969 copy of _Bored of the Rings_ today!"

I love the passage where the company is attacked by the Thesaurus.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 23, 2017 07:32 PM (noWW6)

264 They're made out of meat. http://bit.ly/2lAYFAb
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:25 PM (LTHVh)

Pro click. Love that story.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:32 PM (8nWyX)

265 https://tinyurl.com/h2qgbzt

__________________________

Facebook cartoon

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (y3aQB)

266 90 percent of the interplanetary wars are caused by differences of opinion

Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (Ya7zs)

267 259 on the water -not upon

We are leaving, you don't need us.

Ha
Posted by: Glenn John at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (LilNs)

Flying Chris Cumo's silver seed to a new home . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (mbhDw)

268 No one knows how DNA exists.
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:32 PM (qUNWi)

It was explained at the beginning of the Ridley Scott documentary Prometheus. There's a whole discussion a few threads down.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (8nWyX)

269
If I saw a UFO I wouldn't tell anyone. What's the point?

They won't believe me. I'd just lose credibility.
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (qUNWi)

Plus everyone carrying on with the captain Kirk jokes behind your back.

Which, we're still going to do anyway.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (Y0sQt)

270 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Neil Tyson hardest hit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM
---
You realize, of course, that this makes Eris a planet too, and not just a Trans(!)-Neptunian Object.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:34 PM (EnKk6)

271 With Starvate I was always waiting for Morgaine kri Chya to show up.

Nice. What about the ferret people?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:34 PM (LTHVh)

272 "2010" wasn't a bad movie. In my opinion, it suffered by comparison with "2001," but on its own I thought it was fine.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2017 07:34 PM (MZcWR)

273 No one knows how DNA exists.

Read "At Home in the Universe" by Stuart Kaufman.

He explains how the laws of Nature and physics and chemistry lead inexorably to the creation of DNA.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at February 23, 2017 07:34 PM (gIRsn)

274 Oh, read that NASA is talking about reclassifying Pluto as a planet, since it has distinct polar regions and moons.

Neil Tyson hardest hit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2017 07:07 PM

Not hardly. A new round of journal articles and talk show articles for the boys! I always said they'd change it back when the issue stopped getting them attention.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (wB8Tg)

275 272 "2010" wasn't a bad movie. In my opinion, it suffered by comparison with "2001," but on its own I thought it was fine.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2017 07:34 PM (MZcWR)

Helen in her prime, though not nude. Two years later, "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover."

WOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (mbhDw)

276 Really? About f***ing time. Trouble is they're still
gonna have to deal with the assholes in the IAU. Mind you it would be
outstanding if NASA does this and just says "f*** you" to the IAU

I have to say, I find it difficult to work up this much rage towards the IAU. Now the IUPAC people, hoo boy, they can EABOD.

Posted by: pep at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (LAe3v)

277 Watched "Arrival" yesterday. I thought at worst, it didn't suck and at best it was pretty interesting.

A good summation. Did you like that .. er .. thing that they did? Not quite Shamalamadingdong but close.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (LTHVh)

278
See, this is the stuff I hate about AoSHQ.

That was a silly, infantile, faintly retarded joke, and I laughed like a drunken hyena.

Fvck you.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2017 07:29 PM

--------------------

Well, you are named after a cartoon character's sex toy, so...

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (kTF2Z)

279 Are any of these planets Uranus-like?

Posted by: Weasel
............

you wish

Posted by: Milo Y at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (UpGcq)

280
Mirren.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (mbhDw)

281 "2010" wasn't a bad movie. In my opinion, it suffered by comparison with "2001," but on its own I thought it was fine.

Anything with John Lithgow is 20% worse than it could have been.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (qUNWi)

282 WOW.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (mbhDw)

Oh yes.

The movie was meh, but Helen was magnificent.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (rF0hx)

283 It brings tears to my eyes when Klingon refugee children and movie directors just looking for a better life are denied asylum due to the racism of Trump.

And kill all the children downloading my movies without paying me first

Posted by: Meryll Streep at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (Ya7zs)

284 "By the way, I think scientists have hopes that all of the planets are possibly habitable."

1 Discover planets

2 ?

3 Inhabit!

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (iWW0H)

285 Read "At Home in the Universe" by Stuart Kaufman.

He explains how the laws of Nature and physics and chemistry lead inexorably to the creation of DNA.

Thanks Bandersnatch. I'll look for it.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (qUNWi)

286 Anything with John Lithgow is 20% worse than it could have been.
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (qUNWi)

Buckaroo Banzai?

Otherwise I agree.

Posted by: Keith at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (USf3s)

287 The reason that we've never heard from intelligent life is that spacefaring races haven't advanced far enough to develop radio yet. Only a few have advanced to discover gunpowder.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (Tnhbr)

I read a book once where the author was talking about planetary civilizations. They were numbered 0-5, with us still as 0, and any at 4-5 were basically omnipotent. The author made a point of saying one of the dangers of a type 0 civilization was the discovery of the periodic table of elements, and with that the discovery of nuclear weapons/power. He suggested that its possible that many type 0 civilizations may not have passed that point without wiping themselves out, and the galaxy could be littered with dead type 0 civilizations, and it could be one of the reasons among others why we haven't "heard" from any other life yet. Was a pretty interesting read actually.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (aMlLZ)

288 Anything with John Lithgow is 20% worse than it could have been.

Shut your whore mouth.

Posted by: Roberta Muldoon at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (LTHVh)

289 277 Watched "Arrival" yesterday. I thought at worst, it didn't suck and at best it was pretty interesting.

A good summation. Did you like that .. er .. thing that they did? Not quite Shamalamadingdong but close.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:35 PM (LTHVh)

Were the aliens us from the future?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (EnKk6)

290 'He explains how the laws of Nature and physics and chemistry lead inexorably to the creation of DNA. '

That God dude is a pretty smart guy.

Posted by: Ashhole hat vendor at February 23, 2017 07:38 PM (BO/km)

291 Humans have a hard time accepting that we may be the only intelligent life there is in the galaxy, maybe even in the universe. That it even happened here on Earth was more or less a miracle.

The Big Guy who put it all together without even breaking a sweat might disagree with you.

Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 23, 2017 07:38 PM (5hokv)

292 266 90 percent of the interplanetary wars are caused by differences of opinion
Posted by: Neil deGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:33 PM (Ya7zs)

That, and they took his lunch money too. No wonder the guy is such a puke. He didn't do any pushups until he was in his late 20's.

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:38 PM (EaQ6/)

293 12 Aren't their orbits between 1.5 days and 20 days? Wouldn't this cause a huge problem?

Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot

Jeesus think of all the birthday presents!!!

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at February 23, 2017 07:38 PM (iWW0H)

294 If I saw a UFO I wouldn't tell anyone. What's the point?

They won't believe me. I'd just lose credibility.
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:26 PM (qUNWi)

I got a cable TV series out of it

Posted by: Giorgio Tsoukalos at February 23, 2017 07:39 PM (Ya7zs)

295 Were the aliens us from the future?

I'm trying to avoid spoilers because it was an entertaining non-offensive film for the whole family.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:39 PM (LTHVh)

296 We have a Professor of Planetary Science in our church (spoilers: he says 90% of the scientists he knows believe in God)

Anyway, he was giving a talk about exo-planets. Bottom line up front: there are, scientifically speaking, shitloads of them. Our capacity to detect them is actually pretty small. And if you look at how many we have found with our primitive (though getting better) skills in just the little itty bitty teeny weeny part of the sky we have looked at, then you realize that they are everywhere. Ubiquitous, he says.

And water is not so rare, either. Seems to be a lot of places. There is a lot on the Moon of all places.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2017 07:39 PM (HV1LS)

297 Also, NASA needs to work on their planet naming skills...

b, c, d, e, f, & g ???

How weak is that?

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2017 07:39 PM (Sfs6o)

298 "When I was a kid, we had NINE planets" - somebody

Posted by: OCBill at February 23, 2017 07:39 PM (df+Zi)

299 Keep your hands off their unobtanium, you damn dirty apes!

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:40 PM (vRcUp)

300 @288 - he did not detract from The Accountant.

Not sure what that says, though.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2017 07:40 PM (HV1LS)

301 286 Anything with John Lithgow is 20% worse than it could have been.
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:36 PM (qUNWi)

Buckaroo Banzai?

Otherwise I agree.
Posted by: Keith at February 23, 2017 07:37 PM (USf3s)

He played the grandpa in Interstellar. And he died. Good part.

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:40 PM (EaQ6/)

302 Around the time of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, my boss and I ware talking about how when we were in grade school, we memorized the names of all the planets and their number of moons. He went to school in the 50s, and I did in the 60s.

The way I remember it:
Mercury: 0 moons
Venus: 0 moons
Earth: 1 moon
Mars: 2 moons
Jupiter: 12 moons
Saturn: 9 moons
Uranus: 5 moons
Neptune: 2 moons
Pluto: 0 moons

I remember when Saturn's 10th moon was discovered in 1967. Today there are at least 60 known moons around Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus.

Now memorize this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Solar_System_objects_by_size

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:41 PM (sdi6R)

303 293
12 Aren't their orbits between 1.5 days and 20 days? Wouldn't this cause a huge problem?

Posted by: Chris Cum-o-Lot

Jeesus think of all the birthday presents!!!

Posted by: Dirks Strewn

That, and you'd have to spend all your time hanging onto something to avoid being flung off into space. Well, unless you're Michael Moore.

Posted by: pep at February 23, 2017 07:41 PM (LAe3v)

304
@209 How come ET's always land in some remote place somewhere and never in Times Square or downtown Tokyo?

Because parking is a bitch

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 23, 2017 07:41 PM (lKyWE)

305 trying to look up stuff about those jewish community center and cemetary vandalisms. i bet its all false flag lefty crap

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 23, 2017 07:42 PM (U0lQa)

306 'Well, unless you're Michael Moore'

That's no planet!

Posted by: Ashhole hat vendor at February 23, 2017 07:42 PM (BO/km)

307 When I was a kid, we had NINE planets" - somebody
Posted by: OCBill at February

we have nine planets now.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:42 PM (cPsPa)

308 The reason that we've never heard from intelligent life is that spacefaring races haven't advanced far enough to develop radio yet. Only a few have advanced to discover gunpowder.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:27 PM (Tnhbr)

There's a cute little short story (there's no chance I'll remember the name), where every other intelligent species in the galaxy has discovered the extremely simple secret to FTL travel and then completely stagnated, while humans never did and so continued to developed other technologies. The most powerful civilization has FTL but is otherwise basically using Renaissance-era technology. They come to Earth to conquer like they did to everyone else and hilarity ensues when they get demolished and then realize that they've given us the means to go out and conquer everyone else.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:43 PM (8nWyX)

309 Unless Pluto is a binary planet, in which case we have 10.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:43 PM (EnKk6)

310 Watched "Arrival" yesterday. I thought at worst, it didn't suck and at best it was pretty interesting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 23, 2017 07:31 PM (mbhDw)

I wanted to like it more than I did.

In the end, I didn't feel like they wanted me to. It struck me as a lamer "Slaughterhouse 5" without the laughs. (less interesting Tralfamadorian-manques as well)

ie. knowing the path you will walk and walking it anyway cuz that's the path you will walk

Also, since seeing it, I realize it's kind of fallen further in my estimation whenever someone brings it up.

Great set-up and effects though. And Amy wazzername was good.

The downside: the usual chicken/egg time travel problems magicked away

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2017 07:43 PM (vZ9Fw)

311 Humans have a hard time accepting that we may be the only intelligent life there is in the galaxy, maybe even in the universe.

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either proposition is incredible

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 23, 2017 07:44 PM (U0lQa)

312 All those planets are named after dead white guys. Or made-up white guy gods. Not one unpronounceable name among them all! Racists!

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:44 PM (EaQ6/)

313 Hmmm ... just saw this Chris Cuomo bullshit.

Although I "can" intelligently debate about such topics ... people like him are why I no longer wish to.

People like him piss people like me off. Bigly.

Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2017 07:44 PM (fiGNd)

314 either proposition is incredible

We trying to play the odds when the odds are unknowable. Planets that we know have intelligent life: 1.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:45 PM (LTHVh)

315 @287 I read a book once where the author was talking about planetary civilizations. They were numbered 0-5, with us still as 0, and any at 4-5 were basically omnipotent. The author made a point of saying one of the dangers of a type 0 civilization was the discovery of the periodic table of elements, and with that the discovery of nuclear weapons/power. He suggested that its possible that many type 0 civilizations may not have passed that point without wiping themselves out, and the galaxy could be littered with dead type 0 civilizations, and it could be one of the reasons among others why we haven't "heard" from any other life yet. Was a pretty interesting read actually.
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Yeah, I've seen that theory floated on occasion. Given how easily a full-blown nuclear exchange could wipe out all life on the planet, it's not hard to understand. And there's concern about what other apocalyptic scenarios people might be able to make in the near future depending on how easy it gets to create your own genetic virus.

John Ringo's zombie series - Black Tide Rising - is essentially the result of some unknown individual who manufactured a two stage infectious agent.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:46 PM (nsZ+m)

316 Actually, planets that we know have even single cell life: 1.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 07:46 PM (LTHVh)

317 There's a cute little short story (there's no chance I'll remember the name), where every other intelligent species in the galaxy has discovered the extremely simple secret to FTL travel and then completely stagnated, while humans never did and so continued to developed other technologies. The most powerful civilization has FTL but is otherwise basically using Renaissance-era technology. They come to Earth to conquer like they did to everyone else and hilarity ensues when they get demolished and then realize that they've given us the means to go out and conquer everyone else.

The Road Not Taken, by Harry Turtledove. My comment was a reference to it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:47 PM (Tnhbr)

318 Which one is Miranda?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at February 23, 2017 07:47 PM (IcT7t)

319 The Shadow?
Posted by: alexthechick - ho ho ho now I've got a Ravag

rimshot

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:47 PM (cPsPa)

320 309 Unless Pluto is a binary planet, in which case we have 10.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:43 PM (EnKk6)

When I was a kid, I learned that Earth's moon was the largest in relation to its parent planet in the solar system, and was thus close to being a binary planet.

Charon hadn't even been discovered yet, and it wasn't known that Pluto is smaller than our moon.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:47 PM (sdi6R)

321 This seems appropriate to the discussion in this thread:

Civ VI opening cinematic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KdE0p2joJw

I confess, I got just a tiny tear in my eye the first time I saw it.

Posted by: Weirddave at February 23, 2017 07:48 PM (QGamW)

322 Given that the current generation tasked with absorbing the collective understanding of mankind so that they may advance that understanding and pass it on to their progeny is focused like a laser on how everything is a feminist issue and identifying new microagressions and gender constructs....I'd say FTL travel will have to wait awhile.

We thought nuclear weapons would end society. Funny, huh?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:48 PM (Y0sQt)

323 @316 - planetary science professor in my above comment believes strongly that there is enough evidence to say there is life on Mars. And that he is nowhere near alone in that belief.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2017 07:49 PM (HV1LS)

324 The Road Not Taken, by Harry Turtledove. My comment was a reference to it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 23, 2017 07:47 PM (Tnhbr)

Ah, thanks. I didn't catch that it was an explicit reference and not a coincidental musing.

Posted by: hogmartin at February 23, 2017 07:49 PM (8nWyX)

325 I liked Arrival much more than the newest Jack Reacher. What a waste of Amazon credits! I think I still have 24 hours on that one though, so I may as well watch them stumble through it again. The first one was a treat, but imho, this one sucks. I rationalize these movie rentals based upon the price of a single drink at my local watering hole. I do that rationalizing after I've been to the local watering hole, of course.

Posted by: goon at February 23, 2017 07:50 PM (EaQ6/)

326 Given that the current generation tasked with absorbing the collective understanding of mankind so that they may advance that understanding and pass it on to their progeny is focused like a laser on how everything is a feminist issue and identifying new microagressions and gender constructs....I'd say FTL travel will have to wait awhile.

We thought nuclear weapons would end society. Funny, huh?
Posted by: TexasDan at February

so wait one damn minute here. you are saying the barrel is not the HQ's equivalent of the Skunkworks? motherfucker.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:50 PM (cPsPa)

327 while we are on the subject, the drake equation is garbage.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:51 PM (cPsPa)

328 @308
There's a cute little short story (there's no chance I'll remember the name), where every other intelligent species in the galaxy has discovered the extremely simple secret to FTL travel and then completely stagnated, while humans never did and so continued to developed other technologies. The most powerful civilization has FTL but is otherwise basically using Renaissance-era technology. They come to Earth to conquer like they did to everyone else and hilarity ensues when they get demolished and then realize that they've given us the means to go out and conquer everyone else.
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Brandon Sanderson has a short story sort of along these lines. It's never stated exactly how far behind the alien tech is, but it's made clear that humanity would overrun the other sentient races pretty quickly. The only thing holding humans back is the Telephone Company (one of the Baby Bells, which accidentally discovered the aliens, and telepathy) which acts as the go betweens for humanity and the aliens.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:51 PM (nsZ+m)

329 The Jewish cemetery was hit, saw photos of tombstones knocked over. No doubt it was from Leftists in my mind.

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2017 07:52 PM (HDU3V)

330 Humans have a hard time accepting that we may be the only intelligent life there is in the galaxy, maybe even in the universe.

I believe there was a Pogo cartoon where one of the characters said, "Either we is alone in the universe or we ain't. Either way, it's mighty soberin'."

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:52 PM (sdi6R)

331 Uranus: 5 moons

Are those actual moons, or just klingons?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:52 PM (WFe5M)

332 I like one of Turtledove's series in which the aliens sent a probe a thousand years ago and found us at Medieval level technology at best and stone age at worst. Their own civilizations developed extremely slowly, not in bursts as ours do, so they were expecting humans to be at the same basic technological level when they arrived.

Well guess what, they arrived in the middle of World War II and there are nuclear weapons being developed. The aliens take over, as they are wont to do, but it is a harder row to how tan they anticipated.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 07:53 PM (EnKk6)

333 so there is a rumor that the iodine someone sprayed over europe was from the russians testing a new nuclear aircraft engine.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:53 PM (cPsPa)

334 All those planets are named after dead white guys. Or made-up white guy gods.

We can name one Ubuntu. I think that's a god.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:53 PM (vRcUp)

335 The Jewish cemetery was hit, saw photos of tombstones knocked over. No doubt it was from Leftists in my mind.

The one where the muzzies filmed themselves doing it?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:53 PM (WFe5M)

336 @325 have not yet seen Arrival but have seen Jack Reacher.

Wow, what a mess that one was. Nowhere near the first one in coherence.

Pissed my wife off with the grrl power stuff.

But, did one thing fairly well. Cobie Smulders, when she fights a guy, can hold her own if she has a stick, but barehanded she gets her ass handed to her.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2017 07:54 PM (HV1LS)

337 like one of Turtledove's series in which the aliens sent a probe a thousand years ago and found us at Medieval level technology at best and stone age at worst. Their own civilizations developed extremely slowly, not in bursts as ours do, so they were expecting humans to be at the same basic technological level when they arrived.

Well guess what, they arrived in the middle of World War II and there are nuclear weapons being developed. The aliens take over, as they are wont to do, but it is a harder row to how tan they anticipated.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes

yes they are wont aren't they.

Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:54 PM (cPsPa)

338 Arrival was a good premise but BORRRRINNNNGGGGG.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:55 PM (dKiJG)

339 Psst: The rest of the corgis have moved on, and left us nerds here.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 07:55 PM (sdi6R)

340 Someday scientist will produce a simulation showing that after a few billion years, the probability of life evolving approaches one. We don't need to resort to broze aged superstitions.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 07:55 PM (vRcUp)

341 Given that the current generation tasked with absorbing the collective understanding of mankind so that they may advance that understanding and pass it on to their progeny is focused like a laser on how everything is a feminist issue and identifying new microagressions and gender constructs....I'd say FTL travel will have to wait awhile.

We thought nuclear weapons would end society. Funny, huh?

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:48 PM (Y0sQt)

Yeah, my new theory for lack of interplanetary buddies, is that^^^

What you said.

Voluntary self-retardation simply becuz society has grown so benevolent and life so easy that we destroy ourselves and our civilization thinking these lame-ass antireality a-holes can't do any harm until it's too late.

Dark ages here we come. The voluntary spread of the two ideologies that destroy everything they touch- socialism and islam- along with all the other nonsense on the left- is galactic level stupid.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2017 07:56 PM (vZ9Fw)

342 @330 I believe there was a Pogo cartoon where one of the characters said, "Either we is alone in the universe or we ain't. Either way, it's mighty soberin'."
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Arthur C. Clarke had a similar quote - "Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

It was used as the opening quote for the XCom remake.

Posted by: junior at February 23, 2017 07:56 PM (nsZ+m)

343 Arrival was a good premise but BORRRRINNNNGGGGG.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:55 PM (dKiJG)

yeah that's what I keep hearing.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at February 23, 2017 07:56 PM (aMlLZ)

344
so wait one damn minute here. you are saying the barrel is not the HQ's equivalent of the Skunkworks? motherfucker.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:50 PM (cPsPa

It's Sheol.

Not sure where Yoko threads fit in the AOSHQ theosophy.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2017 07:56 PM (Y0sQt)

345 while we are on the subject, the drake equation is garbage.

Always thought the same. Meaningless.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2017 07:57 PM (qUNWi)

346 331 Uranus: 5 moons

Are those actual moons, or just klingons?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2017 07:52 PM (WFe5M)
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**golf clap**

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2017 07:58 PM (Sfs6o)

347 https://tinyurl.com/qgf899j

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Dead Terorist goes BOOOOM

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 23, 2017 07:58 PM (y3aQB)

348 "so there is a rumor that the iodine someone sprayed over europe was from the russians testing a new nuclear aircraft engine"

By report, lots more isotopes detected besides just radioiodine. Catastrophic engineering casualty during flight test?

The old time NERVA test team here in the States were often pretty nerva-ous about their safety margins and the various unknown unknowns in the design.

Posted by: torquewrench at February 23, 2017 08:00 PM (noWW6)

349 https://tinyurl.com/j8z6nev

________________________

EXCLUSIVE: Illegal fundraiser for the Clintons made secret tape because he feared being ASSASSINATED over what he knew - and used it to

Posted by: EVLINC! at February 23, 2017 08:00 PM (y3aQB)

350 341
Dark ages here we come. The voluntary spread of the two ideologies that destroy everything they touch- socialism and islam- along with all the other nonsense on the left- is galactic level stupid.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2017 07:56 PM (vZ9Fw)

Sometimes I wonder if the reason why we haven't found intelligent spacefaring aliens is because their society gets conquered by Islam-like barbarians, who bring technological progress to a screeching halt.

Other times I theorize that once a civilization develops sexbots, all other innovation immediately ceases.

Posted by: rickl at February 23, 2017 08:00 PM (sdi6R)

351 You know what movie is surprisingly good?

"The Great Wall"

Totally mis-promoted though.

It is a kid's movie. It's exactly the type of kid's movie I would've loved when I was a young boy (5-12).

Scary monsters, crazy fighting, pretty girl, reluctant hero who's heroic in the end.

Great stuff for kids, esp. boys. Lots of action. No sex.

Take them to see it on a big loud 3D screen for maximum fun.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2017 08:01 PM (vZ9Fw)

352 The alien races may have one gender, or maybe five. It will just go to show you that gender is an arbitrary societal constraint.

Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 23, 2017 08:01 PM (vRcUp)

353 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6ySfETYoWo

Hopefully this works...catchy tune, and sorta on topic.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 23, 2017 08:02 PM (6kbgu)

354 The 5th Wave starts out good then the main actress only has only one emotion permanent pout face.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 08:03 PM (dKiJG)

355 Arrival was a good premise but BORRRRINNNNGGGGG.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 07:55 PM (dKiJG)

yeah that's what I keep hearing.

I didn't think it was boring, though it was slow paced.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2017 08:03 PM (LTHVh)

356 Hacksaw Ridge, NOW that's a good movie, what that man did is incredible. I really need to read up on his story.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 23, 2017 08:11 PM (dKiJG)

357 Hacksaw Ridge was great, and I even thought Andrew Garfield, of whom I m not a fan, did a terrific job.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 23, 2017 08:12 PM (EnKk6)

358 They're estimating the age of the star as around 500 million years old. That might be just old enough for extremely primitive single-celled life to have formed. Maybe.

Posted by: J. Wilde at February 23, 2017 08:25 PM (5l//T)

359 so there is a rumor that the iodine someone sprayed over europe was from the russians testing a new nuclear aircraft engine.
Posted by: yankeefifth at February 23, 2017 07:53 PM (cPsPa)

That would be oddly specific radioactive fallout.

This happened in 2011, that time it was a bad filter at a pharma factory. Same isotope IIRC. It's used in cancer treatments.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 23, 2017 08:34 PM (wB8Tg)

360 Jack Chalker's "The Four Lords of the Diamond".
Never trust multiple habitable planets in one system.

Posted by: Sam at February 23, 2017 09:16 PM (FAHea)

361 Only be concerned if they name one of the planets LV-426

Posted by: Jim at February 23, 2017 10:07 PM (hHnMD)

362 The pictures NASA creates of these planets are a hoot. They don't actually know anything about them except their distance from the star and therefore heat exposure, maybe rough size and maybe density. Nothing about chemical composition and atmosphere except what theory says is likely or possible.

So pretty much no information on what they actually look like. If one of them was covered with molten lava and had a refreshing cyanide atmosphere, we wouldn't know it. So then how do we know where to send a B Ark loaded with SJW tranny muslim dwarfs? This is why we need to keep on sciencing like crazy like NDGT says. And he can be in charge of in-flight entertainment.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 23, 2017 10:55 PM (LeUrG)

363 358 "They're estimating the age of the star as around 500 million years old. That might be just old enough for extremely primitive single-celled life to have formed. Maybe."

So we might well encounter life forms similar to Paul Krugman or Charles Blow?! Best bring nukes.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 23, 2017 11:05 PM (LeUrG)

364 I can't get excited when at the speed of light it would take 40 years. So if we invented light-speed travel tomorrow I wouldn't see it in my lifetime. The means to travel these distances may never be traveled in human existence no less in any kind of timeline like 100 years.

Posted by: Conan at February 24, 2017 12:35 PM (f8f+t)

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