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    ...find in another star system of course:

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5819006/

    And here's another article about NASA about to make a BIG announcement about something they've discovered in another star system next Tuesday: (supposedly a new type of planet, any guesses what they found?)

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3217961/
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    Wait... NASA?


    Damn yanks trying to steal everything for themselves. Check the BBC news archives - the 'Super Earth' planet that was discovered was done so in Europe. Not that where it comes from really matters, but I'm damned if people are taking credit where it's not due

    NASA had nothing to do with it

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3599496.stm
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    Originally posted by DaCuBaN@Aug 26 2004, 10:48 PM
    Wait... NASA?


    Damn yanks trying to steal everything for themselves. Check the BBC news archives - the 'Super Earth' planet that was discovered was done so in Europe. Not that where it comes from really matters, but I'm damned if people are taking credit where it's not due

    NASA had nothing to do with it

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3599496.stm
    The MSNBC article gives credit to Europe...
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    I'm hoping this will be a blow to those 'rare earth' fanatics, who seem to think that conditions must be precisely like Earth in order for life to exist, and that only carbon-based organisms are possible, and always forget that our green and pleasant Earth has been in the past both a snowball and a desert rock. (life existed on both occasions) These people usually turn out to be closet Christians.
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