ahh yes...

I love you guys

"What the **** is the Blade supposed to be? When are we going out with 500 bucks each, slam a bottle of scotch at the scumbag, shithole bar and then come back to a hotel room with some trailer trash skanks and we turn them out!"

BWAHAHAHAHAHA

http://i.imgur.com/LgY3L.png

BTW, it was never about the rep. Skip is a dick bag.

See, that's how it used to be when you whined about rep. Now we give out pity rep and hugs and ****ing kisses.

GOD DAMMIT BUG. IT WASN'T ABOUT THE ****ING REP!!!! :cuss::cuss::cuss:

/check your rep

Exactly, you whined about rep and you were so far deep in red before you knew what hit you

Eh, make that 59 neg reps now. LMAO

I was about to neg you bug, but I'm fresh out.

I've given 10 negs and received 11. I'm surprised I actually gave out that many negs.

I'm more of a negger than I would have thought. I've given out 77 red boxes.

Over the past year, I have given out roughly 350 reps. 67 of them were negative, well over half of those directed at Wickedson. LMAO Bump came in second with around 10, other than that a few shots at Pootie, Vanilla Thunder, HMc, TheGuardian, Zackipoo, Tom Cash, Hog Farmer, the odious Moobs, Barry Smilez, a Colts troll and some idiot named Lemon Pie who I can't remember but apparently don't care much for.

I've given out 22 neg reps and have received 44. I've received 482 pos reps and given out 342.

That's balanced enough for me.

I hit Lemon Pie relentlessly for a while

18 negs over a 4 days span.

I have received 5,186 positive reps and 1,065 negative reps.

And yet.... LMAO

Weird doesn't work for me. Goes to http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/repextras.php?do=repin and comes up blank.

This is my favorite thing. Thanks, DaFace.

haha

cool reading back through some old reps

thanks

It's not how often you use it, it's how big it is when you need it.

First Rep I ever received (negative btw)
Chiefs or Broncos? 11-22-2006 05:53 PM Calcountry That's low class

11 of my first 17 received reps were negative.

jesus christ I was an idiot 7 years ago. (at least more of an idiot)

also wtf, I registered here 7 freaking years ago!?

I really don't hand out much neg rep. But GoQueer and Reaper have been the most frequent targets.

A fun read!

Wow - you are an awful person.

2 pages of neg rep given, almost entirely to trolls. Except that Zaiko bastard. He got a bunch.

This thing is awesome.

that's what my therapist says........

I just realized I've only gotten one neg this year, for the following post:

:shrug: Thanks?

who the hell was dottefan? i don't remember him, but it looks we weren't exactly the best of friends.
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yeah, I shot Dottefan a few too......LMAO

That's where it's supposed to go, but it seems to work fine for me. I did read in the forum where I found it that some people had that problem, but I'm not sure why. What browser are you using?

As did i. He was a raiders troll if i recall correctly.

The only repping that ever took place between me and googlegoogle was a neutral rep from him to me.

"Dude your dumb dick. Go kill yourself. pillowbitergot. Communist !"


SHOCKING there wasn't more after the whole Sofa the mod scandal. LMAO

Umm, he is back under a different name. There have been a few people that have figured out who he is.

It's Kurt Cobain isn't it.

i knew it.

Good Lord, no! LMAO

That Guy

Did I win a goldfish?

Chrome. It literally just comes up totally blank. But its no biggie. Was just curious.

Funny one on Dottefan.
He was trolling up the board, calling everyone racist and fat old white men, claiming to be a student at some school and wanting to meet CP members face to face, I assume so he could intimidate them with his blackness or something. :shrug: Anyway he finally dropped an address, Hog Farmer sent a couple of his buddies to go check it out, described the place they found and that’s the last we heard from Dottefan.
Until recently when he’s returned as Thatguy doing pretty much the same thing.
My guess is he’s some 14 year old posting from his parents place and was stupid enough to give the address on the internet. That’s why he quit posting for several months after Hog Farmer described his parents place to him. Just a guess though.

I have chrome and it's working fine.

Pretty much how I felt. My early posts just make me go :facepalm:.

I can't believe I wasn't negged into oblivion. I think people were much more patient with noob idiots back in 2004.

:D

Well done, but a goldfish? I figured you would want a rainbow trout!

Well damn, I'm going to have to lay off the miss piggy, lonely saturday nights and semen jokes on hogfarmer.

Didn't want to associate the two.

:drool:

Yea, I don't think it is a browser issue.

In most of the negative reps I've given, I sound like Red Foreman.

Dumbass!
Posted via Mobile Device

Obviously '04 sucked for the CP!LMAO

Wow, I've only handed out 4 neg reps... I'm far too nice.


Log out, clear your cache, reboot 3 times, log in, clear your cache, reinstall your browser, clear your cache, log in again...

I think it's because you have your rep disabled. At least, that's a hunch. I bet it's got some weird permission check in there that isn't working properly.

Yea that is it.

So I don't give out a ton of red but I think the distribution is weird.

2004 - 4
2005 - 28
2006 - 5
2007 - 7
2008 - 4
2009 - 1
2010 - 2
2011 - 1

So since the start of rep I have given out 52 negatives but only 8 since 2007.

I've given out 166 neg reps.

I didn't give out my first neg rep until I had been here for almost a year.

my first 4 negs in the first couple weeks on'

<TABLE class=tborder border=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center><TBODY id=collapseobj_reparchive><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895683815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:37 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">this rep is actually more valuable</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36889258310 class=alt1Active width="50%">Iggles vs. Saints - A... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-09-2007 08:59 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>KurtCobain </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p365585042 class=alt1Active width="50%">What is a Chief Fan's #... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>12-30-2006 07:44 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Logical </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36525172383 class=alt1Active width="50%">Tamba Hali </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>12-28-2006 10:18 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Iowanian </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">Gaudy sigs are for needle dicks.</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

and he wonders why I think he's an immature punk, in my first two-three months on the planet;

<TABLE class=tborder border=0 cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=6 width="100%" align=center><TBODY id=collapseobj_reparchive><TR><TD class=alt2></TD><TD id=p37525453815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 10pm thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-02-2007 11:05 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2></TD><TD id=p37533303815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 10pm thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-02-2007 11:05 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2></TD><TD id=p37525373815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 10pm thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-02-2007 11:04 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2></TD><TD id=p37525353815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 10pm thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-02-</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap></TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37533393815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 10pm thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-02-2007 11:04 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37495883815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:04 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37496533815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:04 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37497303815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:03 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37497393815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:03 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37498433815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:02 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37498893815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Who Is The Most... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>02-01-2007 09:02 PM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37424733815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 12:30 Am thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-31-2007 12:36 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37424683815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 12:30 Am thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-31-2007 12:35 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37425393815 class=alt1Active width="50%">The 12:30 Am thread </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-31-2007 12:35 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37451823815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Phil, when are you... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-31-2007 12:34 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37452323815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Phil, when are you... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-31-2007 12:34 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37357783815 class=alt1Active width="50%">A Drunk Sat Morning... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-27-2007 03:08 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p37359933815 class=alt1Active width="50%">A Drunk Sat Morning... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-27-2007 03:08 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">you're a worthless tard</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895553815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:40 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">crazyRICH</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895423815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:39 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">seriously....you are one of the richest people i know</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895163815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:38 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36894513815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:38 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">RICH!!! RICH BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS!</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895033815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:37 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">see? now you are rich</TD></TR><TR><TD class=alt2>http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/image...tation_neg.gif</TD><TD id=p36895683815 class=alt1Active width="50%">Trip Report and Pics... </TD><TD class=alt2 noWrap>01-10-2007 12:37 AM</TD><TD class=alt1 noWrap>Gif Horse </TD><TD class=alt2 width="50%">this rep is actually more valuable</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

131 for me. Took me a month to start.

One of my first ones was negging alnorth, who is pretty much one of the best posters on the board. Just going back and looking at my dumbassery makes me cringe so much. LMAO

EDIT: Make that 132.

ahaaa, I see what you did there....:cuss:

how the heck did miss the dottefan/Hog Farmer thread....

It’s buried inside a topic. I looked it up a couple of days ago because I remembered how it went down and was going to see if Thatguy had a response to it so it is still out there if one were energetic enough to go look it up.

What's the link to that thread? I'm pretty sure I missed it.

Heh. Anybody lame/stupid enough to get punked by Hog Farmer should be gassed as a public service.

I'll dig it up later, gotta run for now.
If you want though just search Dottefan and look for his last post.

Between Tom Cash in various incarnations, Shitsprayer and BEP I have a whole page of neg reps :) makes me feel proud.

And about another 20 or so random ones.

I've given out 937 positive reps, 1001 negative reps, and 3 balanced reps.

31 neg reps received since 2003. Only thrice have I received more than 1 for the same post (2 on each of the afore mentioned negs). Thank you *uckEyedPea (I love vendettas).

Neg repped the most by, you guessed it, *uckEyedPea, KCChiefsfan88, CupidStunt aka lj4mvp, and, of course, Clayton (one day, he'll grow up).

I've given out 42 neg reps.

1,237 positive reps received.

986 positive reps given.

All in all, not bad for 8 years.

You deserve a positive rep for all the cool space pictures you have posted, via your telescopes.

Have one on me. :)

753 received positive reps, 57 negative, 853 positive given and 133 neg reps to others

Plus one more + rep given :)

Dave, speaking of Rep . . . ok, lousy segue but I didn't want to start a whole new thread . . . did you see the discovery of the Saturn-sized planet that's orbiting twin suns? I caught the blub in the WSJ, haven't been to the NASA site yet to check it out.

Looks like a paired orange - red combo. Planet is supposed to have a 227-day orbit.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Damn, some of you guys are some hateful bastards.
I’ve received 13 negs out of 857 total and given 36 negs out of 919 total.

I just checked the totals - I've given 1,399 postive reps and 294 negative reps.

We are?
Who's a hateful bastard now, Mr. almost 3:1 ratio? :D

Astronomers looked in the right place at the right time and saw something that had only been seen in science fiction: a planet orbiting the two suns of its alien solar system. Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope spotted the Saturn-size world in a star system they call Kepler-16, and today they reveal their discovery in the journal Science. It’s the first exoplanet ever spotted orbiting both stars in a binary star system, evoking images of Star Wars’ Luke Skywalker gazing into the twin sunset on Tatooine.

The Kepler-16 suns are both smaller than ours: One, orange in color, is 69 percent as massive as our sun, and the other, which appears red, is 20 percent as massive. The two stars orbit each other every 41 days. Life on a two-sun planet is difficult to imagine, says Nader Haghighipour, an astronomer at the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Sometimes, both stars would have set, and there would be total darkness on the planet. Other times, one sun would be up, and then the other would rise, turning things extremely bright. "The concept of day and night, dark and light, would have totally different meanings," Haghighipour, who was not involved in the study, says.

Our own single-star system is actually an oddball; most solar systems have two or more stars. But until now, astronomers have had to exclude this enormous group of star systems from the search for Earth-like planets. That’s because one of the primary ways astronomers search for exoplanets is through the "wobble" method—faraway planets are so hard to see, scientists instead look to stars for a telltale wobble that could be evidence of a planet’s gravitational pull. When there are two stars, the two enormous masses pull on each other and mask the signatures of planets. In this case, though, astronomers got lucky: They caught sight of the Kepler-16 planet as it passed directly between the telescope and its two suns. It’s the first direct evidence of a planet orbiting two stars, according to study lead author Laurance Doyle. "It’s a whole new kind of planetary system," he says.

The discovery happened only because the planet and both its suns were lined up on a plane with Earth, so that the scientists were at the right angle to see the planet as it crossed its suns. Of the 150,000 stars the Kepler spacecraft is watching, scientists chose a few thousand potential two-star systems to keep an eye on. It just so happened that the planet and the two stars lined up with the telescope’s line of sight. "The team had to be smart to choose their initial targets properly, then keep their fingers crossed," Haghighipour says.

In the past two years, Haghighipour says, there have been a couple of other announcements of planets orbiting two stars, but they turned out to be false claims. "This one is for real," he says. "It’s a very important and profound discovery."

Even if we could travel the 200 light-years to Kepler-16b, it would be no vacation destination. The planet's temperature falls between about minus 70 to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. At its warmest, Doyle says, the planet is comparable to "a nippy winter in Antarctica." Plus, the newly discovered planet is about the size of Saturn (95 times more massive than Earth), and like our solar system’s sixth planet, it would have a thick, gaseous atmosphere.

As a result, the Kepler-16 planet probably isn’t a good place to look for life. But there is one hope for life-hunters, Doyle says: "If it has a moon, it has a shot." Planets of Kepler-16’s size can accommodate moons as big as Earth. If the moon were large enough to hold an atmosphere, Haghighipour says, that could allow the greenhouse effect to take hold and even out the temperatures across the moon. (Saturn’s moon Titan, for example, has a thick atmosphere—though it’s made of compounds like methane and ethane that aren’t terribly hospitable to life as we know it.) If the hypothetical moon were too big, however, it would attract a lot of gas and become too hot; plus, it would exert too much pressure on its core for it to have continental plates, which help to cycle carbon dioxide on Earth and make life possible. The right moon for life would be no smaller than half the size of Earth and no bigger than about three Earths, says Haghighipour. Doyle and his team are searching for this moon, but so far have been unsuccessful.

Whether or not a moon is found, the discovery of this planet means that scientists can now begin to search for other planets orbiting two stars by using the same methods. Doyle is confident that there are many similar planets out there. "These are rare in the galaxy, but it’s a big galaxy," he says. "Back of the envelope, I’d say there are two million more."

Edit: Here's the link to the article an NASA's site as well. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ke...epler-16b.html

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...18#post6631418

Hog Farmer in post #96.

After Hog Farmer’s post Dottefan made one more post on different topic then disappeared.

I've given out 96 positive reps and 6 negative reps (4 of them to spammers)

<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904491704576572752151160560.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories">Double-Sun Planet Discovered, à la 'Star Wars' .</a>

By ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Astronomers announced Thursday the discovery of a rare planet that orbits two stars, like Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films, adding to a growing inventory of alien worlds in the curiosity shop of the cosmos.

Detected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's $600 million Kepler space telescope, it is the first confirmed solar system of its kind, turning a Hollywood fantasy into an astronomical fact. Called Kepler-16b, the Saturn-size planet circles its twin stars in the constellation Cygnus about every 229 days, the researchers reported in Science.

"The reality goes beyond the imagination of the most creative theorist in astronomy or science fiction writer," said astrophysicist Fred Rasio at Northwestern University, who wasn't involved in the work. "Just about anything you could think of as a planetary system is actually out there."

The discovery capped a week of new findings about worlds beyond our own solar system. All told, four research teams in Europe and the U.S. reported finding 74 previously unknown exoplanets, as worlds orbiting other stars are called, including 16 that appear to be only slightly larger than Earth and with gravity favorable to life as we know it.

One of them, with about 3.5 times Earth's mass, may be orbiting near its parent star's so-called habitable zone, in which water may be liquid and conditions possibly ripe for life, said astronomers at the European Southern Observatory, who announced the find earlier this week.

It was among a trove of 50 exoplanets they detected around nearby stars using a spectrograph called the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), based at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

So far, for reasons ranging from toxicity to temperature extremes, none of the 683 confirmed exoplanets seem capable of harboring life. No one can say with certainty whether any habitable planets exist outside our solar system.

Even so, the cascade of finds offers growing evidence that alien worlds may outnumber the stars themselves.

The Saturn-size planet circles its twin stars in the constellation Cygnus about every 229 days. (Artist's rendering.)
.The HARPS team, led by Michel Mayor from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, estimated that about 40% of all stars like the Sun have at least one planet of Saturn's size or smaller. So far, the Kepler mission scientists have found more than 170 star systems in which two, three, four, five or even six planets all orbit one star.

"The universe is teeming with planetary systems of multiple planets, many of which are nearly the size of Earth," said plant-hunting pioneer Geoffrey Marcy at the University of California in Berkeley.

Among the other unearthly wonders discovered in recent months are an exoplanet blacker than coal and a world stripped to a diamond-like core. A third newly found exoplanet is blasted by its parent star with X-ray bursts so fierce that the radiation is eroding the planet's surface at a rate of five million tons a second.

Stranger still, a star survey of the Milky Way by astronomers in Japan and New Zealand earlier this year discovered a new class of Jupiter-size planets that float free of any star at all, swimming about on their own in the dark. They estimated that there may be twice as many of these orphan planets as stars.

Earlier this week, British astronomers in the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) project announced they had found 23 giant, hot exoplanets, each about the size of Jupiter and, no doubt, with crushing gravity. These exotic worlds circle their stars so closely that they complete an entire obit about every five to eight days, the researchers said.

The WASP group monitors 10 million stars for signs of exoplanets by taking images of the night sky every 10 minutes with an array of cameras in South Africa and in the Canary islands. Their research, which hasn't yet been published, was discussed at the Extreme Solar Systems conference this week in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

"We are finding planetary systems which are very different from our own," said astrophysicist Coel Heiler at the U.K.'s Keele University, whose group runs the WASP search in the Southern Hemisphere.

Write to Robert Lee Hotz at sciencejournal@wsj.com

:LOL: Get off my lawn!

LMAO

Doesn't count. You didn't wave your (walker, cane, shotgun) at him. :skip:

Improper use of cliche. 10 yard penalty from the spot of the foul.

Awesome hadn't seen it yet. Thanks for the info and oh by the way Rep :thumb: