Jesse Owens just won his 4th Gold. This guy is awesome!

[cthulu2016]

Apologies to the people of HD156668b who won't be getting the radio broadcasts for another three years or so.

...US astronomers have detected the second-smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four times heavier than the Earth, adding to a growing number of low-mass planets dubbed "super-earths".

"This is quite a remarkable discovery," said Andrew Howard, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley.

"It shows that we can push down and find smaller and smaller planets," he said in a presentation at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC this week.

The exoplanet, a name given to planets outside our solar system, has been dubbed HD156668b, and is located around 80 light years from Earth in the direction of the Hercules constellation...

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/astronomers-spot-superearth-80-light-years-away-20100109-lzdl.html#ixzz21wdZiEur

[11 Bravo]

1. DAMN IT! People have explicitly requested that there be no Olympic spoilers!

[BOG PERSON]

2. that's sort of bittersweet

maybe there's somebody out there, listening to their radio, experiencing the 20th century, when history bloomed and died w/in a hundred years.

[cthulu2016]

3. Ever read or seen CONTACT?

We get a message from space and when we decode it, it is a video of a Hitler speech. Nothing meant by it -- it happened to be the first high-power TV broadcast so they were returning it to show it was received.

But it freaks people out a little, for obvious reasons.

[BOG PERSON]

4. nope

that sounds like a good story though. i should probably watch the movie.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. for the love of god, don't see the movie

read the book...

sP

[CrispyQ]

5. That was the only decent scene in that crappy movie.

Such a great book, such a crap movie!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

9. indeed... crappy crappy movie of one of my favorite books... n/t

[Motown_Johnny]

17. They wouldn't understand any of it.

It would just be a regularly modulated radio signal to them. Also it would be so weak that the odds are that someone out there 80 light years away wouldn't even detect it.

Don't lose any sleep over it.

[msanthrope]

6. We refused to dip our flag to Hitler, too. Only country to refuse. nt

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. the good news is they won't be getting this either :-) n/t

[cthulu2016]

10. No, I'm pretty sure DU3 is instantaneous.

One of the many fantastic upgrades from DU2.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. my mistake...failed to read that in the upgrade guide...

those poor people (or whatever they are)...

sP

[cthulu2016]

12. The "Somebody is Wrong on the Internet" death-star armada is already on its way

Fortunately, at sub-light speed, however.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

13. thank you for the wonderful belly-laugh

Contact was/is one of my favorite books...I can see it on the bookshelf right now but the only way I can identify it is that the wording has been completely rubbed off the spine from all the holding over the years.

sP

[zbdent]

15. They need Ludicrous Speed ...

[zbdent]

14. damn, you just ruined my TiVo of the 1936 Olympics ...

I was going to watch that in a few minutes ...

[coalition_unwilling]

16. Definite DUZY! You totally rule! - n/t