Science!
The continually increasing number of known exoplanets is yet another nail in the coffin of the Drake Equation. According to everything we knew about planetary formation twenty years ago, much less what we knew a quarter century earlier when the equation was devised, this should not be possible: the Jupiter of Jupiters. Yet there it is, along with its many "hot Jupiter" brethren. And unless and until the COROT satellite and/or the forthcoming Kepler Space Observatory detects a terrestrial exoplanet, sun-diving gas giants are the only known planets outside the Solar System. As a species were are both noble in reason and infinite in faculty, but we must ever be mindful of how precious little we know of the mysteries of the cosmos. We should be not afraid of our ignorance, but use the indignity of it to fuel our quest for knowledge.

In the meantime, holy balls! A revolutionary period of 3.55 days for a planet 70% larger than Jupiter? That shit is bananas!

COROT
Kepler
Darwin

Also, a new slogan for our pleasant blue orb: Earth, the Cadillac of planets!