Dean's World: Planetary Formation Surprises

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May 29, 2004

Planetary Formation Surprises

Astronomers are being forced to reconsider theories of how planets development thanks to the discovery of what looks like an impossibly young planet circling CoKu Tau 4, 420 light years from Earth.

I think we need a manned mission. Who's with me?

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Yeah! What the hell. It's not like I'm doing anything _else_ with the rest of my life...

Posted by Andrew Cory on May 29, 2004 at 8:25 PM

Me!

Posted by Kathy K on May 29, 2004 at 8:30 PM

Hauld yer horses keptin but uir warp drife coils still huvnae come frae amazon yit!!

Posted by toddk on May 29, 2004 at 10:52 PM

Hey, if we get that Warp Drive up and running again...

Posted by dowingba on May 29, 2004 at 11:03 PM

Crap, toddk beat me to it. Hmm...

Hey, I think they're selling cheap HyperDrives on Coruscant this time of year...

Posted by dowingba on May 29, 2004 at 11:04 PM

Nobody needs to go. The answer is 42.

Posted by Samuel Tai on May 30, 2004 at 1:45 AM

We could always travel on the Starship Esmay...

Posted by Dean Esmay on May 30, 2004 at 2:13 AM

What if we go all the way there and it's just a tacky tourist trap?

Posted by McGehee on May 30, 2004 at 8:35 AM

I'm all packed! C'mon Amazon!
*standing in driveway bouncing from foot to foot*

Posted by Claire on May 30, 2004 at 11:20 AM

Starship Esmay! Up, up, and away! HAIL TO THE KING AND TO THE QUEEN!!!!

Posted by Steven Malcolm Anderson the Lesbian-worshipping gun-loving selfish aesthete on May 30, 2004 at 1:14 PM

I'd love to go.

Seriously, major changes in our understanding of cosmology are occuring frequently. The thing that puzzlles me is that anyone thinks they understand anything in astronomy at all.

Posted by Ken Hahn on May 31, 2004 at 7:13 AM

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