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tigerfort ([personal profile] tigerfort) wrote2008-11-13 09:30 pm
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Photo: Formalhaut B

Today's real news: an article due to appear in this week's issue of Science will contain the first ever direct images of extra-solar planets.
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[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 08:34 am (UTC)(link)
Is that Spectra as in Captain Scarlet? Or are they still running ZX computers? ;-)
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[identity profile] tigerfort.livejournal.com 2008-11-14 09:05 am (UTC)(link)
Remember that Formalhaut is 25 lightyears away, so we can only see what was there 25 years ago.... If they turn out to have had the ZX spectrum at about the same time we did, I suggest we all go and ask Sir Clive where he really comes from and why he's been producing overheating computers and electric bicycles rather than letting the rest of us use his ftl spaceship.
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