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(Discover) Cool The green, green sunset of an alien world   (blogs.discovermagazine.com) divider line 13
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cmunic8r99 [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 01:27:39 PM
It's a streetlight!
 
Lt. Cheese Weasel
2012-01-09 03:01:33 PM
'We're going there to eliminate,right Burke? Not gather specimens....'
 
LDM90
2012-01-09 03:16:31 PM
Tomorrow: And there are 3 moons!
Next day: And a ring system!
Day after: Astronomer names planet after his wife.
Day after that: Wait, forget all that. Uh, well, we're pretty sure there's a planet there...
 
SnakeLee [TotalFark]
2012-01-09 03:39:50 PM
blogs.discovermagazine.com

Star HD209458? More like Star Jones. Why does it have a fat ass like that?
 
blahpers
2012-01-09 04:34:50 PM
LDM90: Tomorrow: And there are 3 moons!
Next day: And a ring system!
Day after: Astronomer names planet after his wife.
Day after that: Wait, forget all that. Uh, well, we're pretty sure there's a planet there...

i580.photobucket.com
 
apeiron242
2012-01-09 04:59:21 PM
How can you be "on" a gas giant? i think you'd be "in" it, either floating in a balloon or falling to your death.
 
tinyarena
2012-01-09 05:16:41 PM
apeiron242: How can you be "on" a gas giant? i think you'd be "in" it, either floating in a balloon or falling to your death.

Came to say this. You'd have to snap the picture really quickly.
 
ChrisDe
2012-01-09 05:32:02 PM
Just an illusion,
would it were true.
 
LDM90
2012-01-09 05:49:08 PM
blahpers: LDM90: Tomorrow: And there are 3 moons!
Next day: And a ring system!
Day after: Astronomer names planet after his wife.
Day after that: Wait, forget all that. Uh, well, we're pretty sure there's a planet there...

Check out planet Zarmina. Discovered to be tidally locked, then habitable, then named after an Astronomer's wife, now considered to be unlikely to exist.

I'm just saying sometimes science gets a little breathless about these "discoveries", especially astronomy it seems. If they want to say there's a certain chemical in the atmosphere, fine. But don't tell me what the sunset looks like from 150 LY away.
 
Whiskey Priest
2012-01-09 09:04:37 PM
An actual photo of a sunset on Mars
i955.photobucket.com
 
Hassan Ben Sobr
2012-01-09 10:24:25 PM
www.icstars.com

Just go to the tropics on Earth-
 
Abner Doon
2012-01-10 12:50:59 AM
tinyarena: apeiron242: How can you be "on" a gas giant? i think you'd be "in" it, either floating in a balloon or falling to your death.

Came to say this. You'd have to snap the picture really quickly.

Actually, you'd probably be falling for a very very long time, so assuming you had an air supply and some sort of protection from the elements, I'm sure you'd have time for many pictures.
 
Tobin_Lam
2012-01-10 07:45:17 AM
apeiron242: How can you be "on" a gas giant? i think you'd be "in" it, either floating in a balloon or falling to your death.

Maybe you should rtfa.
 
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