First 'rocky' exoplanet...

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:47 am

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:55 am

Silly name though - why name it after the telescope and not the star which it orbits?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:04 pm

DaddyHoggy wrote:
Silly name though - why name it after the telescope and not the star which it orbits?

It is. The star is called Kepler-10.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:49 pm

OK, So I guessing each new featured star the Kelper Telescope discovers is called Kepler-nn...

Not very imaginative these scientists!

drew · Post by **drew** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 4:56 pm

Not very imaginative these scientists!

There's only so many variations on 'Planet of the scantily clad killer bikini vampire girls' ...

Cheers,

Drew.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:28 pm

drew wrote:

There's only so many variations on 'Planet of the scantily clad killer bikini vampire girls' ...

Cheers,

Drew.

You know, without the 'vampire' bit, that could almost sound appealing.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:05 pm

I don’t know, I hear those killer bikinis are vicious.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:05 pm

Smivs wrote:
You know, without the 'vampire' bit, that could almost sound appealing.

Don’t worry about the ‘vampire’ bit… it’ll be ‘love at first bite’, like Ahruman's vampire computer.

Star Gazer · Post by **Star Gazer** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:42 pm

Ahruman wrote:
I don’t know, I hear those killer bikinis are vicious.

...only to the wearer's anatomy...

(based on observation...!)

CheeseRedux · Post by **CheeseRedux** » Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:00 am

drew wrote:
... scantily clad killer bikini vampire girls ...

Have you been watching [wp]Vampyros_Lesbos[/wp] again?

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