Re: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-18 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Rick sez: > I can't wait until the detection threshold comes down - like to the level of > moons around these big planets. Bet that's where the action is as long as > the system is in the liquid water zone. I agree with this hypothesis. I've always felt that a lot of the real action could very we

RE: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-17 Thread Rick Monteverde
I can't wait until the detection threshold comes down - like to the level of moons around these big planets. Bet that's where the action is as long as the system is in the liquid water zone. R.

RE: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-17 Thread Jones Beene
An astral projectionist writes, "I have been there twice. The beaches are wonderful this time of the year ... but the ebb tide goes out at Mach 2." Anyway, because it is relatively close, can be seen by amateurs, and has gotten lots of publicity, it will not be long before more detail comes out,

Re: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-17 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:43:57 -0800: Hi, [snip] >http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/16/2152989.aspx I think they're stretching it a bit to call this a water world. You can get the same mass and size figures from a rocky world with a thick atmosphere.

RE: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-16 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Terry Blanton How could something 40 l.y. away be relative? ... I hear lingering lyrics from an old song - "compared to what?" Les is Moore?

RE: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-16 Thread Jones Beene
-Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence A *prophecy* in Gen 3:15 ?? > That verse is in the *middle* of the curse God laid on the snake for having talked Eve into eating the apple, and on Eve for eating it, and on Adam for going along with the whole deal (that's 3:14 - 3:19). If y

Re: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-16 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
On 12/16/2009 05:43 PM, Jones Beene wrote: Forget snake-oil in Dublin, there is a major, major “reality” science news story brewing, with implications of biblical proportions … (catch-22: truth is stranger than fiction). Here is the story of the discovery of a large water planet, in Ophiuchus.

Re: [Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-16 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Jones Beene wrote: > Forget snake-oil in Dublin, there is a major, major “reality” science news > story brewing, with implications of biblical proportions … (catch-22: truth > is stranger than fiction). How could something 40 l.y. away be relative? Terry

[Vo]:The discovery of Hydra-Jinn

2009-12-16 Thread Jones Beene
Forget snake-oil in Dublin, there is a major, major “reality” science news story brewing, with implications of biblical proportions … (catch-22: truth is stranger than fiction). Here is the story of the discovery of a large water planet, in Ophiuchus. It is the closest planet discovered to what we