Most popular insult on Kepler-22b: "What, were you born on Earth?"
ShepherdsDog
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:22 am
It was only 600 light years away. What many of you don't realize is that we also know it as Krypton
raydan
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:24 am
What most people from Kepler-22b will ask you when they find out you're from Earth...
"Do you know Eureka?"
2Cdo
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:27 am
raydan raydan:
What most people from Kepler-22b will ask you when they find out you're from Earth...
"Do you know Eureka?"
You need to get over here and help wipe the coffee off my monitor!
SprCForr
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:36 am
Poor Kepler-22b, their ice caps melted and drowned their polar bears.
DrCaleb
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:38 pm
It's not so astonishing that Kepler is finding all these thousands of planets around other stars - it's that it is only looking at such a small portion of the sky in our own galaxy.
raydan
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:50 pm
2Cdo 2Cdo:
raydan raydan:
What most people from Kepler-22b will ask you when they find out you're from Earth...
"Do you know Eureka?"
You need to get over here and help wipe the coffee off my monitor!