@SeraphX2: Yeah, that puzzled me a bit too.

@draper3000: I don't get it.

@venc: Probably an artist's depiction. When planets like that are detected there is only a regularly-timed dimming of the parent star as the planet transits across it. Telescope resolution isn't quite powerful enough to make out the planet itself.

@wætherman: I would hate to see the aliens from that planet.

@Graham Cracker Morris: Planets don't "burn out" as far as i know. I sure am glad that Earth didn't "burn out" in 470 years.

@draper3000: we'll be waiting a loooooong time on that little experiment...

@dswatson83: I doubt a planet as big as eight Jupiters will evaporate in a mere five centuries.

@SuperGerbil: That's the star's name... We've found quite a few of those.

@philibuster: at that point it would seem more practical to just put the motor in the rear wheel's hub

@BoscoH: Aw but I just like putting "The Government" in quotes. It makes it sound so silly and abstract.

@Nitemancometh: ...Oh! Crap, I apologize. Didn't really want that uranium anyway.

@BoscoH: Oh kayyy... What do you call one member of the Iranian "The Government" on the moon?

@BoscoH: What do you call one Iranian on the moon?...

@McGreed: It would be so much cooler if we just launched it into a stable orbit around earth until it formed a big plastic ring.

@Nitemancometh: ...The main difference here being that there's no one living on the moon.

@Pessimippopotamus: This just in: the Japanese have discovered that the moon has a Lance of Longinus content of 0.0001%.

@nutbastard: Amen. It's not like we have tricorders yet.

@Sir (Starman), Leader of the Pineapple Platoon (and I don't even like pineapples): Hah! Obama funding a mars mission. I'll bet you ten bucks on the outcome of that.

@Dr. What?: ...At a few parts per billion. Unfortunately it's doubtful that this would even break even with the energy requirements of harvesting even if sustainable fusion was perfected. Several square miles would have to be excavated nine feet deep to provide a couple molecules' worth.

@hahn: yeah, that's about the point i was trying to make. our really powerful lasers do get hotter than the sun, but gravity is practically free energy in the sun's setting. that's the tough part to replicate.