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Vic 3 years ago

Well played, Luke!!

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Lisa Kaltenegger, an astronomer at Cornell University, enlisted the help of Jackie Faherty, an astrophysicist who works at Hayden Planetarium, and together they took on the task of identifying stars that might host alien worlds where the residents—past, present, or future—would have a chance of detecting Earth as a transiting exoplanet.

In other words, these planets would have just the right vantage point to observe a slight dip in the brightness of our sun as Earth crosses, or transits, in front of it. It's actually the most successful method we use to find planets beyond our solar system as they orbit around their own host stars, creating tiny blips in the light we can see with astronomical instruments.

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Auntriarch 3 years ago

Dad joke 🤣

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Jihan Kim 3 years ago

we are waterproof by the way..

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Out-Of-Context-Humans

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

Poor gotye... ): His songs are classics

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In June, Kaltenegger and Faherty announced their results in Nature with an extensive list of stars that have either had, or will later have, the required orientation to discover our planet. Using a time range from 5,000 years ago (a period when civilizations on Earth first began to sprout) to 5,000 years into the future, the duo identified over 2,000 stars.

Not only does their study provide a resource to exoplanet hunters by highlighting which stars they can pay attention to, but it also reminds about our unique—and a bit unsettling—visibility to the rest of the universe. "I felt spied on a little bit," Faherty told WIRED, remembering the uncanny sensation of being overexposed. "Do I want to be on a planet that can be found?"

Do you? Who knows, maybe Out of Context Human Race aren't the only ones watching us.

Out-Of-Context-Humans

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Couch potato 3 years ago

The irony...

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Out-Of-Context-Humans

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beastmachine. 3 years ago

So is it possible to buy a Dutch pillow and return it saying that it's a French one and asking for the refund amount of French pillow?

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Out-Of-Context-Humans

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Brian Bennett 3 years ago

Looks like it is specifically made for gulls!

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Out-Of-Context-Humans

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Toea Muresan Iulia 3 years ago

mean, but funny

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Ancsuri 3 years ago

And Daniel is waiting in the box...

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Lauren Caswell 3 years ago

Karl Pilkington is a walking out of context human ^-^

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Serial pacifist 3 years ago (edited)

Oh, a black belt in passive-aggressive cynicism. I salute you, sensei.

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J 3 years ago

CAPTCHAs are getting tricky these days.

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Serial pacifist 3 years ago

'll just pick up my pieces and walk out.

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Scagsy 3 years ago

I once told the missus to hurry up and finish watering the garden before it rains. I seem to remember suddenly becoming wet myself.

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IzzieM 3 years ago

I hope the person who did this gets the help he needs...the article was a blast to read, though!

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

Its bigbrain tim-

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Vic 3 years ago

"12 more cans than 3" would be more lucrative, no?

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

How DID they like that?

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Serial pacifist 3 years ago

Yeah, a non-man slew his Nazgul and now he has to take the subway. Tough days for the darkers.

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

Is he now? 😏

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

This is the guy I need. Come to my nearest supermarket now

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

This kid gives zero f***s to gravity

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Brandy Grote 3 years ago

What do you think the CDC does? They also store viruses and diseases to study them.

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Helena Houzarová 3 years ago

You're not supposed to take this kind of work home, though...

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ThePracticalSarcastic 3 years ago

they do...as do hundreds of other locations in the US and around the world.

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Scott Rackley 3 years ago

Guess you're not ready for what Ft Detrick does. At least they have some protocols to avoid accidental release. Haven't had any anthrax or smallpox have you lately?

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Cass Thomas 3 years ago

Almost had a job there...

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Tee Witt 3 years ago

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Scagsy 3 years ago

That number has recently and rather suspiciously dropped to 1499.

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lara 3 years ago

Evidently storage safety doesn't work too well.

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Richard Grady 3 years ago

We have the exact same -80° cooler at my university, and it’s full of marine and freshwater borne viruses lol

5points

Hannah Edwards 3 years ago

Please close that door.

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Rob Woollard 3 years ago

Except covid 19. I think that one escaped

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Gogubaci 3 years ago

this aged well

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Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago

I'm not up for conspiracy theories, but this is too much of a coincidence not to warrant close scrutiny, and apparently the WHO agrees with that assessment. I mean, I can totally see this as being a case of gross incompetence and possibly greed, like a low level employee swiping a couple of bats to sell in the wet market next door for a quick extra yuan and after the outbreak started everyone tried to cover their asses and then the CCP moved in and swept everything under the rug because the CCP is never wrong ever and everything is perfect and our great leader XI is a genius and China is a communist worker's paradise, etc.

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Watching 3 years ago

The moment y'all start using that CCP crap we know you have no credibility whatsoever.

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Uber Mensch 3 years ago

Fort Detrik, Maryland

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Watching 3 years ago

Please continue to report racist comments. We don't want racists on Bored Panda.

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LazyPanda 3 years ago

I love how the poster saved this for last because they knew the mess they were about to create

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no_name 3 years ago

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Brian Bennett 3 years ago

"WHOOPS"!

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Egidijus Linkus 3 years ago

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Anta Babb 3 years ago

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Anta Babb 3 years ago

whoops, someone else said the same thing above already

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Paul Wairegi 3 years ago

And then they (Chinieese) told the american-WHO research team "we don't know s**t about where that virus came from". DRAGONSHITTTTT😅😠😫😠

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Dillon Hughes 3 years ago

well house one less now... haha

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WorldNeedsReboot 3 years ago

when you create a new virus, and release it to the world (with help from other countries), that's an issue

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Loretta 3 years ago

could you like not

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shep ona 3 years ago

China should be on the hook to pay for this mess. Even if it was an accident, it's their fault. And they covered it up for months.

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N S 3 years ago

In which case, the US should pay up for the Spanish flu (20million dead after the US army imported it to Spain).

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

So that's at least 1500 more variants of the Covid virus to be released.

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Mazer 3 years ago

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Al Cook 3 years ago (edited)

Are you kidding??? There's a heap of evidence that they hid the spread of the virus for months (most likely to deliberately spread it around the world) before they notified the WHO.

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T Simmons 3 years ago

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Iron Eddy 3 years ago

How/ Why exactly?

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