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Linksies!

Planets:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/117984/20110302/kepler-finds-strange-worlds-fastest-planet.htm

Imagine a year being only 10 days!

I'd be sooo old! Roughly one thousand years old. Maybe I would qualify as a jedi?

LHC:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110228/full/471013a.html

Nice comment about the above article on /. : "Didn't we have the same "what use is this" question after that math story the other day? It's like a oblique troll that something is Useless Until Proven Useful. General Theory of Truth: If something is true, something cool can be done with it. No exceptions. Politics don't count. I agree *you* don't need this, but someone out there has to know this stuff."

and

"Once you find the Higgs there's a cut scene where God kicks in the door at Stephen Hawking's house, pistol-whips a nurse, and wheels Hawking away with a gun to his head. It fades to black and you see: "ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: BOSON-NOVA!" The Level Up screen opens, you get to distribute skill points and pick a Level II perk, and then you move on to the next quest."

and

yes I'm too lazy to write something myself about the LHC ;)