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21 Jan 2008, 5:29 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080121/ ... birthagain


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21 Jan 2008, 5:44 pm

Thank God for that. I thought for a moment Rod Stewart was going to have another kid.


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21 Jan 2008, 6:06 pm

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Thank God for that. I thought for a moment Rod Stewart was going to have another kid.


:lol: Yeah, I kept the original title, because it was humorously misleading. But I find the stars in the sky way more fascinating than people stars.


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21 Jan 2008, 6:17 pm

Oh, agreed. And this is just fascinating, although the story was kind of sparse. Am I reading it right that they're guessing that the stars have had some sort of gaseous outflow and that's what's going to form these new planets? Or am I inferring too much? Normally my go-to place for this stuff is Space.com, but I didn't see the story there.


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21 Jan 2008, 8:00 pm

It's because they were irresponsible and didn't use starcondoms. Now they're going to have new planets and the next thing you know, the whole neighborhood goes to hell....


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21 Jan 2008, 9:31 pm

reminds me of a meeting I was in recently. The manager wanted to have a new set of rewards called the 'Nova' awards (for new). I almost lost it; a Nova is a star that explodes in a blaze of glory, then burns out...like employees, y'know?...;)



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21 Jan 2008, 9:39 pm

mmaestro wrote:
Oh, agreed. And this is just fascinating, although the story was kind of sparse. Am I reading it right that they're guessing that the stars have had some sort of gaseous outflow and that's what's going to form these new planets? Or am I inferring too much? Normally my go-to place for this stuff is Space.com, but I didn't see the story there.


That was the impression I got, as well. And you're right, the story did seem sort of sparse.


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21 Jan 2008, 11:10 pm

Here's where I saw it originally

MSNBC

well I've never gotten a link to post right here, we'll see if that worked. If not, here's the url to copy and paste:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22768418/

heh... worked both ways it appears... now if I could only get that antimatter to remain stable at room temperature....


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22 Jan 2008, 3:30 pm

Thanks for posting that link!


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22 Jan 2008, 9:29 pm

:lol: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology are three of my "special friends". :D


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23 Jan 2008, 5:07 pm

Your sig is funny! :)


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