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truedelphi

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Tue Feb 11, 2014, 06:21 PM Feb 2014

So off on a distant planet -

http://www.theonion.com/articles/distant-planet-terrified-it-might-be-able-to-somed,35179/

So off on a distant planet, "WR 67c, a terrestrial planet from the distant Gamma Velorum star system, has expressed its profound terror Wednesday at the possibility of one day gaining the capacity to sustain human life.

"The 5.2-billion-year-old celestial body, which is located roughly 1,100 light years from Earth, said that for both its own sake and that of its entire solar system, it can only hope to never possess the necessary planetary characteristics and chemical elements needed to support either a deep-space human outpost or, more gravely, an entire human colony."

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Now some of you science folks might say a planet can't express feelings, but this report is right there on an internet website!

(Besides, Tuesdays can be as amazingly dreary as Hump Days, and I thought a lil cheer up might be nice.)
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So off on a distant planet - (Original Post) truedelphi Feb 2014 OP
And who can blame it? Smart move, WR 67c n/t Little_Wing Feb 2014 #1
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