Konacki has developed a method to extract the planet wobbles from this messy, combined spectrum.

We have come much further in technology than I had realized! Someone should tell Whitney, so they can use this on heranus.

That would be so beautiful, don't you think?

Reminds me of this from my childhood:

"Un jour, j'ai vu le soleil se coucher quarrante-trois fois!"

/obscure?

Vin Disel-arity ensues?

RIDDICK!

Now I've got the theme song in my head.

Aw, darkrose beat me to the reference.

/ hope there is never an eclipse there, kids

StrikitRich: Now I've got the theme song in my head.

Yeah, me too. Doodoodoo-dooooo

mckenna.christina: Not obscure at all.

Vous pouvez m'appeler 'le petit prince'.

/kisses bakarocket

StrikitRich: Now I've got the theme song in my head.

Ditto. Damn clarinet.....

This was on Futurama years ago. Fry is the ruler there, feh!

woo!
A thread where I can use my slightly-more-than-meaningless tidbit.
The Uncle in that show was my great uncle.

/Do I make a sex video now or something?

they found Tatooine?

Thank you so much submitter. Now I have the theme to "My Three Sons" stuck in my head. Bastage.

Extrasolar planet with three suns discovered

Tattooine surrenders?

I think I'm too young to get the reference in the headline.

Help from you old folk, please?

(I say old folk lovingly...I can't wait to be in my forties...but I have at least 20 years to go.)

mckenna.christina

There was a T.V. show called "My Three Sons." It stared lamewad actor Fred MacMurry. The Submitter is playing off the title of that show.

"It is the first extrasolar planet found in a system with three stars. How a planet was born amidst these competing gravitational forces will be a challenge for planet formation theories."


FOOLS! everybody knows god does what he wants, when he wants...through sheer will

It from the tv show "My Three Sons" (suns)

The Suns name should be "Mike" "Robbie" and "Chip"

/good try at the headline, but missed.

SaintAwesome:

There was a T.V. show called "My Three Sons." It stared lamewad actor Fred MacMurry. The Submitter is playing off the title of that show.

oohhhh, now i get it, it's still not funny, but i get it

Oh, thanks Saint Awesome.

You've really lived up to your username today. =)

Cherring71: /Do I make a sex video now or something?

Two.

continued...

The show was a 60's sit-com. One of the main characters was the boy's crochety old uncle, Uncle Charlie.

Interesting note. Fred MacMurray was seldom on set for the filming of the show because he was an a55hole and working doing shiaty Disney movies. The other cast members would shoot their parts like a normal show. Fred would come in and shoot all his scenes at a later time. You will often see him by himself in many many many shots.

Thanks mckenna

if it's 149 light years away, does that mean we're seeing what was there 149 years ago, or 149,000? not sure what the right conversion is

I'd be more impressed if we knew what it looked like right now, in the present. Not several hundred or thousands of years from now, just to see now.

SSPinkerton

oohhhh, now i get it, it's still not funny, but i get it

I couldn't agree more...but it seems to make some folks happy.

(I've said folks twice in one day and I've rarely used that word in my life. I think our President is rubbing off on me...pray for me, please.)

Ha, I'm laughing at what I just said so hard...and I wonder if anyone else will.

"lamewad actor Fred MacMurry"
Except that he was uttery brilliant in the CAINE MUTINY.

Very spineless character though.



btw--one time my wife and her peers at work were having major problems with this overbearing and oddly eccentric manager.I made her watch the CAINE MUTINY and it completely changed her attitude.

ltdanman44: FOOLS! everybody knows god does what he wants, when he wants...through sheer will

so does master shake!
"I'll do what I want, when I want, and how I want!, And no mummy... You hear me, Band-Aid?, No mummy's gonna tell me what to do!"

n/m

1887 -- got it

SSPinkerton

I'm now singing the theme song to ATHF in my head and dancing in my office chair.

If I weren't married, I'd propose to you. You've said, count em, two things so far that made me smile out loud. (In a manner of speaking.)

mckenna.christina: I think our President is rubbing off on me...pray for me, please.

yeah i know what you mean, i find myself laughing at people who try to ask me valid questions, asking asinine rhetorical questions in a condescending tone, and falling off of wheeled vehicles a lot lately

mckenna.christina - nice French reference. Is that what they're teaching you NoVA kids these days?


just a little ribbing from an RVA kid

CURSE!!!! CURSE! *points at SSPinkerton*

Tongue

if it's 149 light years away, does that mean we're seeing what was there 149 years ago

Years. Not millenia.

/ too terse?

likelyculprit

I'm not a real NoVA kid. I just moved here for the sex.

But I appreciate the rubbing anyhow.

i drank the emperor!

149 years ago, Tongue

I find all this tremendously exciting. We're finding planets farking everywhere. Only gas giants at the moment but soon (5-10 years maybe) we'll be seeing Earth-sized planets and watching their ice-caps and (hopefully) vegetation changing with the seasons and analysing the atmosphere. It's quite likely that within the next decade we will know that Earth is not the only planet with life. Isn't that exciting? Then we might all pull together and stop being such monumental arseholes to each other and to the environment.

You ever see a trinary star system....on WEED?

TONGUE

we are seeing what was in existence 147 years ago. A light year is a measure of distance not time. 1 light year equals the amount of distance covered by light that travels for 365 days. So this place they are talking about is 9,500,000,000,000 times 147 kilometers away. Pretty farking far if you ask me and I don't see why this news is at all farkworthy. We are never gonna get to this place. Anyway hope that helped.

mckenna.christina - En fait, je ne suis plus de RVA - maintenant j'habite a Greensboro. Pas pour le sexe, je te jure...

ScummyTheGymbag

/Yes, too terse.
//But I giggled, as I always do at others' misfortunes.

Ok, quick! Trivia time!!!

Q: In My 3 Sons, towards the end of the series, what was the little sister's character's name?
What was her real name?
And what heart throb of the 70s is she related to?

Airius: CURSE!!!! CURSE! *points at SSPinkerton*

You done? We all done now?, Are you done?, Cause I'm done listening to ya. I got a curse for you. It's called "Tomorrow morning your ass is outta here".

"Now imagine two suns... the earth is lifeless..."

Does anyone else remember that ad for Time-Life books?

Man, I can't imagine what kind of UV rating the sunblock would need on that planet. Probably just scientific notation on the label...

Nice headline, submitter.
Well done.

/Fred MacMurray fan...

ScummyTheGymbag: / too terse?

we'll call it concise