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Small Earth-like planet found beyond solar system

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Posted by Spavirt Pheng6042 2005-06-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...the new Planet..."
Perfect example of total decline of the MSM. Back when reporters had to know how to write and not opinionate,the line would have been "the newly discovered planet". After all,I hardly think the planet sprung into existance in the past couple of years. Where was the editor by the way?

Posted by Stephen 2005-06-15 03:46|| 2005-06-15 03:46|| Front Page Top

#2 that they will be able to detect even smaller rocky planets in orbits more hospitable to life

Thank goodness! I'm getting sick of this place.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-15 04:04|| 2005-06-15 04:04|| Front Page Top

#3 The planet is so close to the star's surface that its temperature probably tops 400 to 750 degrees Fahrenheit (200 to 400 degrees Celsius)

And I bet Howard Dean says its all Bush's fault

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-06-15 09:27|| 2005-06-15 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 the 6,732nd most holiest place in Islam

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-15 10:08|| 2005-06-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 The team of excited astronomers announced that the planet is the most Earth-like found so far outside the solar system, although its surface would be far too hot for humans to live on.

Doesn't sound very "Earth-like" to me.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-15 11:14|| 2005-06-15 11:14|| Front Page Top

#6 "Earthlike" in the sense of being a rocky terrestrial-type planet rather than a gas giant like Saturn or Jupiter.

Posted by Jonathan 2005-06-15 11:48|| 2005-06-15 11:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe they should've called it "Venus-like", or something like that. I always figured that Earth-like == habitable.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-15 13:00|| 2005-06-15 13:00|| Front Page Top

#8 Alternate headline:

Small Earth-Like Planet Found Beyond Solar System
Women, minorities hardest hit...

Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-06-15 13:18|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2005-06-15 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 BAR - once we cease all carbon-based fuel expenditures there, it'll get a lot cooler...just ask AlGore

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-06-15 14:04|| 2005-06-15 14:04|| Front Page Top

#10 the 6,732nd most holiest place in Islam

No Frank G it is now...

The 6,731st... Remember the mosque in Amsterdam burnt down...

Posted by BigEd 2005-06-15 14:36|| 2005-06-15 14:36|| Front Page Top

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