Discovering comments more educational than discovering planets?

Posted on September 16, 2007 • By Rebecca Markowitz
Category: Science |

On Fark.com, a social networking news site, the comments are usually more informative and interesting than the article itself. Today, the Israeli discovery of the world’s oldest planet prompted an intimate discussion (over 125 comments) that included wishes for a happy new year, a deeper look at Jewish philosophy, and a debate of just how old this new/old planet could be.

Click here for more about the Israeli astrophysicist’s discovery on the oldest known planet outside the solar system. Click here for the Fark thread about the discovery.

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