Thread: Interesting extrasolar planet discoveries
View Single Post
  #312 (permalink)  
Old 25-October-2008, 05:32 AM
Drunk Vegan's Avatar
Drunk Vegan Drunk Vegan is offline
Established Member
  
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: If it's a software mod there shouldn't be any risk of fire.
Posts: 938
Default
How fortunate we are, that we can be disappointed by a possible non-exponential growth in the number of planets discovered beyond our solar system.

Whereas just a dozen-odd years ago we'd have to be disappointed by the continued lack of discovered planets outside our solar system...
__________________
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
- Douglas Adams in his speech The Four Ages of Sand
[Help End Homelessness With Coffee (Facebook)][Coffee Shop Shelters (Myspace)]
Reply With Quote