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Posted by earthling at 17:04, 30 Jul 2010

University of Arizona reports Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting a Young Sun-Like Star. In the article, they say that the brown dwarf has not been observed before, because it was much closer to the star than the most recent observations.

Of course this a thinly disguised very large space ship (TDVLSS), in the early phase of takeoff. Well, probably not, but that would be really cool. And very large.

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TDVLSS??
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Posted by red pill junkie on 30 Jul 2010 at about 18:00.

Man, that acronym sucks! :-/

How about Moving Dyson Sphere (MDS)? Shorter and easier to remember for those talking heads at the 6 o'clock news ;)

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Posted by earthling on 30 Jul 2010 at about 18:14.

Hey, you are lucky that the TDVLSS wasn't found by the VLT in Chile, also officially known as The Very Large Telescope. Really. Officially.

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Posted by red pill junkie on 30 Jul 2010 at about 18:19.

Since it's in Chile, shouldn't it be called El Gran Telescopiote? :-P

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Posted by earthling on 30 Jul 2010 at about 18:34.

It's not Chile's telescope, the ESO just rents mountains so they can put their telescopes there. It should be called The Teleskop Très Grand, in the taxpayers' languages.

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Posted by red pill junkie on 30 Jul 2010 at about 19:33.

So, by that logic, and since you happen to be German, how would "thinly disguised very large space ship" (TDVLSS) end up in your native language?

[This is gonna be a good one...]

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Posted by earthling on 30 Jul 2010 at about 20:37.

It's not my ship, so that's not really relevant.

TDVLSS is right, as this is clearly a larger version of the Death Star, and we all know that the Empire speaks English [insert James Earl Jones voice clip here].

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