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The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > Here's how it works:
> >
> > Lets say
> > you got a job
> > as a scientist
> > because your father
> > is a scientist, but you came
> > out being stupid like your mother instead..
> >
> > and you want to discover a new planet...
> >
> > You just pick something
> > 500 light years away...
> > get a science fiction book
> > about a planet 500 light years away
> > and give your new planet the same properties
> > contained in the science fiction book,
> > and submit it to all the science journals.
> >
> > You will become an overnight sensational Star!
> >
> > The Starmaker
> 
> keep in mind that it is very important to
> find a planet in a science fiction book that
> 'matches' your newly discovered planet you
> just made up. So that it rings true in
> those stupid science journals editor's heads.
> 
> Maybe use the same name of the planet you find in the science fiction
> book..
> 
> same...proximity.
> 
> (no pun intended)



oops, someone beat me to it...
http://www.space.com/18348-neil-tyson-superman-krypton-planet.html


i don't read science fiction books, i was thinking comic books is my forte...