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This is a link post First photo of exoplanet confirmed


Space scientists confirm the bright point in the upper left is the first photo of a planet outside our own solar system. Full story is here. For me the fact they can photograph it is genuinely unbelievable and my mind is currently reeling.

Edited to make it clear what I am staggered by.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:31, Reply)
This is a normal post it's brilliant they've got a photo
but puzzled by the unbelievable comment. Wouldn't it be more vastly more unbelievable that our solar system was the only one with planets?
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:45, Reply)
This is a normal post This^
There are plenty of exo planets already known about (446 according to the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia)

It is cool they've got a photo of one though.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:52, Reply)
This is a normal post The older I get
the more and more absurd I find people who find the idea of extra-terrestrial life absurd.

I mean this motherfucker:

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exists. Completely by chance. On the same planet. As you. Won't it be more miraculous if somehow, in the whole of the rest of the immensity of the universe, nothing else is alive? And if there is something else, thinking about it objectively, how is it going to be any weirder than some of the things (like 'im ^) we have here?

*edit* On a related subject, i should say. Otherwise it just sounds like I'm ranting in your face.

Also, good linkage. Woo.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Unbelievable in that I can't believe they'd ever get a photo
Completely convinced that other solar systems/planets exist, even life.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:12, Reply)
This is a normal post Unbelievable.
If you know that there's taling a picture of a jupiter-sized planet at 500 light-years. When They were only guessing their presence a few years ago while observing the artefacts in the star movement.
I'm really impressed they shot a photo, When I met the man who discovered the first exoplanet in the french "Haute Provence" Observatory, they explained they needed 1 year and a half to compile the data and prove the presence of the planet. It was only a decade ago.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Thank you
You have perfectly expressed the source of by unbelievingness.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Pfffft. Not as impressive as Endor.


And I bet it doesn't have Ewoks.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:48, Reply)
This is a normal post They should be looking for Death Stars under construction.
Forewarned is forearmed.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:09, Reply)
This is a normal post am I being dumb?
I thought it was assumed and evident that every star is a sun, and every sun has planets (and other stuff) orbiting around them. I thought we already knew this.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Correct
but it's very cool to have a photo of it, and not an artist's impression. See Wespel's nice reply above
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I don't think we should assume that every star is a sun
Every sun is a star, sure, but not reasonable to assume all of these have their own planetary systems.

In fact, the Drake equation, used a figure of 0.5 for the proportion of stars that have planets, but I can only think is is far too high.

I think far older stars are likely to have planets, less so new newer ones being churned out of star nurseries.

Who knows though!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:57, Reply)
This is a normal post Wouldn't older stars have formed in regions with fewer heavier elements?
And as such have less raw material for planet building?

(Edit - by heavier, I mean larger than lithium)
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Good point
My reasoning was that there was more available raw matter to be collected into the stars accretion discs with the birth of older stars. With newer stars being born, any excess matter would be likely poached by other nearby embryonic stars.

I didn't even consider the distribution of the elements needed for planet formation though; maybe the age of the star gives an approximation towards the type of planet it may have; older stars having gas giants? I don't know; interesting though

An interesting
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Only a sub set of stars have the right conditions to have exoplanets...
It depends on the conditions under which they formed.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)
This is a normal post If I can hijack this with blatant self promotion...
I present/produce an astronomy podcast - if you like space science then please give it a listen and let me know what you think!

The Naked Astronomy Podcast
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 13:42, Reply)
This is a normal post I feel a bit stupid
I thought that planets elsewhere was already a sure thing, I wouldn't have imagined otherwise for a second.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 19:16, Reply)
This is a link post Nimoy+Sunset+Pie
kept me busy for 10 minutes.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh you can probably...
... ask St Peter for that back at a later date.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:10, Reply)
This is a normal post I dunno
I don't really feel like I need a refund.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:18, Reply)
This is a normal post That is .... amazing

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Ha!
They made me chuckle!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:28, Reply)
This is a normal post That is wondefully bizarro
I'm liking the knock knock jokes :D

edit: There's some nice PS work there too
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I like that
This is my favourite - nimoysunsetpie.tumblr.com/post/711320426/straight-outta-vulcan
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:12, Reply)
This is a link post 22 frames that always work...
Interesting look at comic book panel/film frame techniques

Includes the classics: "Reflection", "Depth" and who can forget "One Big Object (Hand, gun, lamp, phone)"
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:39, Reply)
This is a link post First belly laugh of the day :D
a daft joke that made me chuckle a bit too loudly
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:18, Reply)
This is a normal post an oldie but a goldie...
...by the way, my new 'modern life is crap and everyones an idiot' thing what gets on my nerves is why people never remember and tell jokes any more, they go "oh, here's a good one" and then take out their phone and read it out in a really stilted way.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:18, Reply)
This is a normal post mate in the pub the other day
"Did I send you that joke?"
"which one?"
"That one about so and so and the thing"
"I don't think so"
"Yeah, that one... so... (proceeds to tell me half the joke, badly)... tell you what I'll send it now."

*five minutes prannying around*

"You got it yet?"
"yes"
"s'good that one"
"yes"

*sigh*
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:23, Reply)
This is a normal post I remember that joke when I was in school
Which was a few years ago now! :)
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:27, Reply)
This is a normal post
Yes, we always have the last bit going something like:
Teacher: And what's your name little girl?
Little girl: Breeze Block *said like a mongy*

Even made my Mum laugh once and she doesn't put up with much of that.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Ours was...
..."Wardrobe"
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Fridge for me!

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:40, Reply)
This is a normal post red indians and they named the kid after the first thing they saw and the kid was called
2 dogs fucking
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:56, Reply)
This is a link post look what i saw on the way to work
i saw this for real i was there looking at the soap dodgers, didn't film it, but someone else has...was fekkin loud!

EDIT: link is to mark webber doing a pitstop on parliament square (not flying into the barriers upside down at 200)
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:54, Reply)
This is a normal post They arrrested Halimton in Australia for less that that
I say arrest him now and send him to Australia!

um...
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:14, Reply)
This is a normal post i think they had told the rozzers...
they where there watching it too!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:50, Reply)
This is a normal post I suppose they need all the practice they can get ;)

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)
This is a link post Children’s Drawings Come to Life
Kids drawings. . .. re-imagined....


(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Lovely things
... but gc I'm afraid.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:46, Reply)
This is a normal post bah
.. Didnt show as GC for me, probably just shown on the site I was looking at from another "sauce"
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Some of these are proper disturbing.

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Why do kids put their age on their drawings?
Is it meant to be some sort of excuse? As far am I'm concerned a crap picture is a crap picture. No excuses!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:09, Reply)
This is a link post What Does an Exalted Cyclops Do?
He reports to the Dragon and coordinates the Centaurs!

See at school we used to talk like this and called Geeks. . . damn racists have all the fun!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:06, Reply)
This is a normal post Proof! D&D players are racist!
Not really but parts of this article read like D&D "What are the job responsibilities of an Exalted Cyclops?

He presides over the Council of the Centaurs and writes quarterly reports to the Grand Giant."


Nice find. I hope that next meeting they have, someone spikes the punch with acid and they suddenly all see the hate they carry in them and learn to defeat it.

(Used to hate idiots like this, now I just feel pity for them and hope they open their eyes)
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Exactly
At school me and my other two mates who "went into dungeons" got mocked for such things.... mind you this was back in 1983... and also. . . they were probably right..
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:40, Reply)
This is a link post Couple Has a Zombie Wedding [Pics]
Okay, is this stupid or awesome? Who would actually do anything like this?

I mean think of 25 years from now, zombies/vampires have seen their time and your kids are asking for pictures of your wedding.

What do you do then?

I'd never do this, but it's always crazy to see what some people do to their lives.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 5:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Awesome. Defiately.
And it's not like a couple of weird wedding pictures are going to utterly wreck your life and your relationship with your kids :P
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 6:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Still being all loved up from my recent nuptuals
I say, if that's what they want to do then good luck to em.

Not a fan of 'novelty' weddings myself, but then we we didn't a lot of the 'traditional' shit either.

B asically, as long as you do the legal stuff, just enjoy your day the way you want to.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Well it's different!
Each to their own an all that..
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:30, Reply)
This is a link post The 20 Sexiest GQ Covers of All Time
GQ and Complex easily and consistently have the hottest covers out of any US magazine still going strong.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 5:13, Reply)
This is a link post Batteries not included
Absolutely best video of bodily expression I have ever seen.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 3:37, Reply)
This is a normal post sitting here all fat and hungover at 6am watching this
makes me angry.

Its a struggle to just get up and walk to the fridge at the moment.

Smug, athletic bastard.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 6:20, Reply)
This is a normal post I really want to find a place local to me to learn how to do this stuff.
But all I ever seem to find is forums of people that can hardly do a cartwheel.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 6:27, Reply)
This is a normal post i would've thought googling your area and gymnastics would do it

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:44, Reply)
This is a normal post it's incredible
what you can do today with CGI!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:24, Reply)
This is a normal post it just looks like they keep falling over
and having trouble standing up again
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 10:49, Reply)
This is a link post Lady GaGa Live
lol?
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 3:03, Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha
she must of been drinking alot of whiskey cos her voice is pretty gruff now
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 8:33, Reply)
This is a link post Greatest trick shot ever
Just a little test video i made for an upcoming film, sorry about bad quality, hoping i will get a better camera soon. Feedback is apreccaited

JQ
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 1:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Weeeeargvivoooppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Feedback. lols

/coat
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Good
but its no dennis pennis vs ken toucan
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:19, Reply)
This is a normal post good effort
a tripod will help loads (imho)
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:27, Reply)
This is a normal post the points for that shot?
Its over 9000!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:51, Reply)
This is a normal post i hate you

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 3:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Are you still here????
Most people have the decency to get involved and comment on other peoples links instead of just posting nothing but their own stuff.

You'd probably get better responses if you responded to others as well.

Until then, can't you piss off???????
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 4:23, Reply)
This is a normal post What like you don't?

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:28, Reply)
This is a normal post "...has posted 17 comments on /links, including 17 links."
Either interact or fuck off, you malformed, privileged, hog-nosed bag of rancid cunts.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:55, Reply)
This is a link post Drive by abuser, yeah?
Watching a fackin video on youtube are ya? Fackin looks like it an' all.

Went to the Modern toss museum of urban shit-naks tonight in Shoreditch, London. Reminded me of the aceness of Alan and drive by abuser
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 0:36, Reply)
This is a normal post I can't decide between the Football one (#15) and the Tree (#16),


yeah?
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:00, Reply)
This is a normal post I like the traffic light one.

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 6:24, Reply)
This is a normal post I'd never heard of this before, but I'm going to watch them all now, looks great.
see ya.

edit: #13. Village Flowerbed is it? Fack off.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:37, Reply)
This is a link post Kids vs Ice Cream
Defend your icecreeam truck from waves of kids with your (ice) cream gun.

Mor fun than a pedo in a clown suit.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:53, Reply)
This is a normal post addictive, spent an hour playing.

(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 1:18, Reply)
This is a link post Cpedia, Wikipedia rewritten by schizophrenic robots
The idea is that it automatically builds a page by compiling excerpts from relevant articles.
The reality is somewhat different.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:51, Reply)
This is a normal post It's like the Will It Blend guy
shoved the entire internet in, and lo and behold, it blended.

Not very well mind.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:54, Reply)
This is a link post Team Meeting NSFW
A friend of mine just posted this on his Facebook page (he's the one on the right). Should I be worried or aroused?
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:24, Reply)
This is a normal post erm
now i see why you tagged it as nsfw, you should really warn people that its two men rubbing their crotches with soap in their underpants.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:40, Reply)
This is a normal post you just spoiled the surprise

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:50, Reply)
This is a normal post He spoiled the surprise.
I have NO idea what's going on but I LOLed.

Countdown to the endearingly prudish mods taking it down...

*edit* the Youtube chaps I mean, not ours, ours will not care.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:33, Reply)
This is a normal post why not both?
waroused

EDIT: MY EYEEEEES! MY BEAUTIFUL EYEEEES!!!!!!!! *Wilhelm scream*

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha...
Mutual facebook friend... I was just about to post this!
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:52, Reply)
This is a normal post Ugh.
He should clean his tongue more often.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 0:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Tim and Eric
On meth.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 0:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Excellent!
And I can guarantee that will in *no* way come back to haunt them in their future lives.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
This is a normal post Graham Coxon and Alex James:
The early years.
(, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
This is a normal post as this is not a *ahem* members work
god that was dire.
(, Sun 4 Jul 2010, 18:11, Reply)
This is a link post Martin Keown
I was just searching for premiership players old and new to see what their wives looked like. Even the really good looking players like Martin.

This was the first pic that came up in google.

It gave me a bit of a guffaw.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Uncanny

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:09, Reply)
This is a normal post ehehe
this photo of Ray Parlour always makes me chuckle
i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/13/article-0-0068268300000258-989_224x423.jpg
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:09, Reply)
This is a normal post would

(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:49, Reply)
This is a normal post you utter bastard
i almost woke the house!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 2:30, Reply)
This is a normal post poor Keown
Surely he doesn't deserve this ridicule.

It should instead be directed at Carlos Tevez

www.sport24.com/var/plain_site/storage/images/media/images/football/diaporamas/carlos-tevez/526359-1-fre-FR/carlos-tevez_diaporama.jpg
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 20:15, Reply)
This is a link post Happy Canada Day
eh :)
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 22:56, Reply)
This is a normal post wooo!
much better than july 4th!
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 0:04, Reply)
This is a link post Cardboard Warfare NSFW
Those boxes in Sainsburys will never look the same.
NSFW due to cardboard bloodbath.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 22:42, Reply)
This is a normal post That is fantastic
Gotta get me a cardboard gun.................despite the fire risk
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 22:57, Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha
that was really well done, little touches like the tank turret wobbling when the grenade went off etc. And whats with the beautiful katamari doodle at the end xD *click*
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 23:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Splendido!
A veritable cardboard cliché fest.

***cleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek***
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 7:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Fucking hell that's good!
FXhome perchance ?
Clicky
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:02, Reply)
This is a normal post There are a lot of these style about at the mo, is there some sort of standard home use FX package about now?
Very entertaining and a LOT of effort gone into that, the tank especially!

*edit* FXhome you say? ^^
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 9:09, Reply)
This is a normal post http://fxhome.com/
Aye, tis what i played with a while back:

(All short 30 seconds clips or so)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip0tnBZ27hI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgAFSW-Ikrc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7fJWZkoUxs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cccPJUqnOoM
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
This is a normal post
top notch. nice use of quad flute.
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 11:41, Reply)
This is a normal post That was great
But where is the paper aeroplane airstrike?
(, Fri 2 Jul 2010, 22:57, Reply)

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