More new planets in from ESO

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A European group has found many more new planets outside our solar system, including some that are only a little bigger than Earth. There's a really cool, low-bandwidth video here: http://www.eso.org/gallery/v/Videos/VNRs/vid-39c-09_FLASH.flv.html

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[+2] - djjd62 - 10/19/2009i make a pretty mean apple crumble
[+2] - roger - 10/19/2009That happens to my pies, too. Sometimes I just call it cobbler. Not that I've tried this in the past few decades.
[+1] - djjd62 - 10/19/2009we should bake a coffee cake, and take it around, welcome them to the neibourhood
[+1] - littlek - 10/19/2009Ha! That sounds rather Douglas Adamsish.
[+1] - tsarstepan - 10/19/2009That's thoughtful. Do you know how to bake? ;)
[+1] - tsarstepan - 10/20/2009BTW: Fascinating video. Thanks for linking. :D
[+1] - Setanta - 10/20/2009[quote="roger"]Not that I've tried this in the past few decades.[/quote] Tried what? Baking coffee cakes or visiting near-by planets?

we should bake a coffee cake, and take it around, welcome them to the neibourhood

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Ha! That sounds rather Douglas Adamsish.

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That's thoughtful. Do you know how to bake? Wink

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i make a pretty mean apple crumble

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That happens to my pies, too. Sometimes I just call it cobbler.

Not that I've tried this in the past few decades.

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BTW: Fascinating video. Thanks for linking. Very Happy