First 'rocky' exoplanet...

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And any survivors, their debts I will certainly pay. There's always a way!
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Silly name though - why name it after the telescope and not the star which it orbits?
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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.
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OK, So I guessing each new featured star the Kelper Telescope discovers is called Kepler-nn...

Not very imaginative these scientists!
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Not very imaginative these scientists!
There's only so many variations on 'Planet of the scantily clad killer bikini vampire girls' ... :wink:

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drew wrote:

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

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You know, without the 'vampire' bit, that could almost sound appealing. :D
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I don’t know, I hear those killer bikinis are vicious.
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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.
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Ahruman wrote:
I don’t know, I hear those killer bikinis are vicious.
...only to the wearer's anatomy... :shock:

(based on observation...!) :lol:
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drew wrote:
... scantily clad killer bikini vampire girls ...
Have you been watching [wp]Vampyros_Lesbos[/wp] again?
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