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Exoplanet Ross 128b an Earthlike World?
06-Feb-18 04:23 pm EST
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erlin has just been discovered! (For those of you who are familiar with the Elite universe….Ross 128 is the system which is host to the Merlin colony, an earth-like world which actually is a moon of the gas giant Aster in the game.) The similarity of Merlin and this discovery might be astonishing! I certainly hope the folks at Frontier are paying attention to this news item.
Artist’s conception of what the exoplanet Ross 128b might look like on the surface. (Source: CNN.com)
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CBC News Alerts
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InfoQ Articles (Software Architecture)
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Exoplanets News
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Elite Dangerous (posts to Twitter.com)
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- Thinks I don't understand -
Why @EliteDangerous doesn't have a name changing service, paid or otherwise.
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- Current mood: #EliteDangerous and @ScandroidMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyZuAsC1kA … 17-Jan-19 10:44 pm ESTCurrent mood: #EliteDangerous and @ScandroidMusic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyZuAsC1kA …(@AltoholicMind)
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- Day 183 - Expedition Aqua
Me alone in the Black
Deeper within the Rubincundus cloud, bizarre clumps of solid metallic spheres are found!
What is their origin? How can such structures form naturally?
#EliteDangerous
@GalPhotoED
#EDPostcards
@MissionFarsightpic.twitter.com/BEvMOlmvlX 17-Jan-19 10:41 pm ESTDay 183 - Expedition Aqua Me alone in the Black Deeper within the Rubincundus cloud, bizarre clumps of solid metallic spheres are found! What is their origin? How can such structures form naturally? #EliteDangerous @GalPhotoED #EDPostcards @MissionFarsightpic.twitter.com/BEvMOlmvlX(@Niibl)
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