NASA has found 7 earth sized planets around a single star outside our solar system!

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HoloDust said:

bonzobanana said:

Perhaps the future will be like 'Dark Star' where we go around blowing up planets with intelligent life that might compete with us to colonise our galaxy.

One of my all time favourites...it's been a while since I've watched it, but wasn't Dark Star's mission to destroy planets that are calculated to drop out of orbit (or something like that) and make a mess in its host system?

No...pretty sure they were destroying planets that might have "intelligent life" on them...so they didn't try to destroy our planet.  Great movie...precursor to Alien, which was written by Dan O'Bannon who plays Sgt. Pinback...who is the namesake of one of the best bands ever, Pinback.