Comments on: Found: An Exoplanet From Another Galaxy

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:54:12 +0000

“The timescale upon which such stars play a role is larger than the age of the universe,” he said.

Smaller, surely?

By: Albert Bakker

Albert Bakker — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:16:07 +0000

VIP you are probably, hopefully even, one of exceptionally few mortals who would read “age of the universe” especially in context in which it was used as meaning to be anything else than the time passed from the Big Bang event to present day Earth as a frame of reference.

By: VIP

VIP — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:29:35 +0000

Rainer Klement, you are only one of many mortals who do not understand that there is no ‘age of the universe’. Only because you and I are mortal doesn’t give any reason for the universe to be mortal. There is no beginning, there is no end. there is no proof that it can be anything else. That’s why it’s called the universe. You and I know that it is impossible to create space or matter, therefore it is also impossible to destroy space or matter.

By: Albert Bakker

Albert Bakker — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:33:19 +0000

#4 – When directed to a site or even worse a private blog featuring the often so violently raped Schopenhauer quote in big fat print, it is like screaming at me to tune out immediately. But I was able to withstand even the pressure put on me by Faux News and the Daily Fail and try to find a word from the source himself:

http://www.motherboard.tv/2010/1/29/q-a-ragbir-bhathal-australia-s-leading-alien-hunter–2

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:52:21 +0000

Still pretty cool, but Nick said what I was thinking. You can’t judge a story by its headline these days.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:53:39 +0000

Strange Signal Comes From Alien Planet, Scientist Says… Does ET live on Goldilocks planet? How scientists spotted ‘mysterious pulse of light’ from direction of newly-discovered ’2nd Earth’ two years ago:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2010/10/strange-signal-comes-from-alien-planet.html

By: Brian Too

Brian Too — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:18:12 +0000

@1. nick,

+5 your comment.

By: Jockaira

Jockaira — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:06:34 +0000

I should think that if one goes back in time far enough, most stars in a galaxy as large as ours would have become a part of the Milky Way Galaxy as their parent galaxies were captured by gravitational attractions. The word “galaxy” only describes a group of stars, gas, and dust orbiting around a common center of gravity and not part of another galaxy, pretty much the same thing on a grander scale as a “cluster” or a “stream” circulating around its own center of gravity and then orbiting a galactic center, and that galaxy likewise orbiting around another center of gravity of a “local group”of galaxies. HP13044 enjoys no particular distinction except for the fact that it is part of a stream identified as having an extra-galactic origin.

It is even possible for the local group of stars that includes our solar system to have come from somewhere other than the Milky Way Galaxy.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:09:02 +0000

This was way more exciting when I thought the headlines were “in another galaxy.”