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Post by Khaine on Mar 7, 2009 14:07:18 GMT -5
In all the hype about Watchmen and Limbaugh's ego I completely forgot about an important space launch. Yesterday evening the Kepler Mission was launched. Sent up to detect earth sized planets, this is one of the first steps in determing if other habital planets might exist in the universe. |
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 7, 2009 17:29:39 GMT -5
Yay for space!
Seriously, though this is great news, even if earth-like planets are too far away to be useful to us right now, it'd really fuck with creation-logic if they did exist.
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Post by MaybeNever on Mar 7, 2009 18:38:38 GMT -5
Yay for space! Seriously, though this is great news, even if earth-like planets are too far away to be useful to us right now, it'd really fuck with creation-logic if they did exist. Yeah, they'd never be able to bullshit their way out of that one. They'll just blame a liberal scientist conspiracy for fabricating the data, trot out a pack of, like, food science PhDs to make statements about how the data is flawed, claim that the planets were put there by Satan to tempt them from the true path, drag a few gays to death, and call it a night. |
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Post by antichrist on Mar 7, 2009 23:41:21 GMT -5
Yay for space! Seriously, though this is great news, even if earth-like planets are too far away to be useful to us right now, it'd really fuck with creation-logic if they did exist. Yeah, they'd never be able to bullshit their way out of that one. They'll just blame a liberal scientist conspiracy for fabricating the data, trot out a pack of, like, food science PhDs to make statements about how the data is flawed, claim that the planets were put there by Satan to tempt them from the true path, drag a few gays to death, and call it a night. Oh come on, they'd just come up with some new bullshit that that's the new earth mentioned in the bible. Remember according to them it was the stupid scientists who were demanding the world was flat, not the church. |
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Post by somnium on Mar 8, 2009 1:32:44 GMT -5
I watched the count down for this on the NASA website it is pretty cool how it is looking for planets by monitoring the light from stars to see if there is a dip which may indicate a planet is moving in front of it - amazing how much information they will be able to obtain. The comment above about finding a habitable planet will mess up the fundies is funny in light of mission name - but Kepler, the man, was highly religious and believed the sun was the father, the stellar sphere (I think this means the planets but correct me if I'm wrong) the son and the space in between the holey spirit he thought the universe was the image of god - so finding such a planet may not have messed up his view? (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler see the section on Mysterium Cosmographicum) ps I am not trying to give them ideas for how to argue the issue should it arise, I just thought it was interesting - Kepler was an interesting scientist. |
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Post by Deimos on Mar 8, 2009 2:44:33 GMT -5
Me and my sis are exited about this.
We are both power-nerds
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Post by MSTKL on Mar 8, 2009 16:06:25 GMT -5
One awesome thing about being immortal would be actually getting to go to one of those planets.
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Post by Sandafluffoid on Mar 8, 2009 16:09:53 GMT -5
One awesome thing about being immortal would be actually getting to go to one of those planets. Book of Mormon All I'm saying. |
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Post by adoylelb90815 on Mar 17, 2009 15:43:31 GMT -5
One awesome thing about being immortal would be actually getting to go to one of those planets. Book of Mormon All I'm saying. You've got that right. Just saying. |
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