New Exoplanet that has "Suineg is a Moron" written on it by aliens who browse FoH

[Araxen]

We've only scratched the tip of the Iceberg of what's out there in the Universe. Heck, we find new shit that shouldn't exist on Earth alot.

[cosmic_cs]

Hay gais, ther's lik sum weird gravety in the uniworld. I tink God did it!

[Alamando]

Fucking giant space bricks.

[Hachima]

Did you read the article? If scientists admitting they don't understand how things work makes them wrong...it can't look well for many religions that admit the same thing about not knowing all the mysteries of god etc.

[Malakriss]

Obviously the limits and lack of human understanding proves the existence of a divine being that we could not possibly understand.

Makes perfect sense.

[Eomer]

Originally Posted by Picasso

WASP-18B is where god goes to tan

So awesome.

[Araxen]

Originally Posted by Hachima

Did you read the article? If scientists admitting they don't understand how things work makes them wrong...it can't look well for many religions that admit the same thing about not knowing all the mysteries of god etc.

Well of course religions will lay claim to the unexplainable as proof of god. History is full of examples of this and that's their whole con job, but eventually science finds out the truth.

[Tea on tuesday]

Originally Posted by Eomer

But yeah, at this point we really have no idea how solar systems change over time. Are they relatively stable? Or are they constantly changing? Or do they maybe remain stable for long periods, with punctuated periods of rapid reorganization due to passing stars, blackholes etc?

Science Friday Archives: Colliding Planets (Don't Panic)

[chaos]

God dammit, Suineg. God dammit, dude.

[Castigator]

Looks a lot like a sword in a field

[TheCutlery]

Man, lotta dumb here.

There was an article awhile back about scientists finding a supernova, which was pretty cool, except for the fact that the star should have been way too young to go supernova.

The logical conclusion from that article? Maybe we don't fucking know what we think we know.

The illogical conclusion from that article, and this one? HOLY SHIT SUPER BEINGS DID IT.

[Azrayne]

Step 1: Find something that our current understanding of science doesn't explain

Step 2: Assume a magical wizard in the sky did it

Yup, no flaws in that thought process at all.

[Simas]

Guys I just heard a weird noise in my attic! I dont know what it is so it must be God hanging out up there. Clearly.

[Surlok TP]

Originally Posted by Tea on tuesday

Science Friday Archives: Colliding Planets (Don't Panic)

I liked the second article's linked description better than the term "collision" .

The Jupiter twin may have "interacted" with another planet. Next time I see a car crash I am going to tell the cops I witnessed an interaction between two vehicles. It's so much more vague and interesting.

[Horse]

Originally Posted by Phelps McManus

I think this is where you got confused. There are two different issues:

1) There is a 1:1000 chance (rare) of catching a billion-year-old planet 1 million years before it going to be destroyed.

Where do you get this math from, your bowl of Cap'n Crunch? Looks like the soggies got to your numbers first!

2) It is behaving in odd ways that suggest maybe it is not 1 million years from being destroyed, therefore increasing the chance (not-so-rare) that we would see it.

The second issue being the more important one since it means our current models of how planets and stars interact might be wrong. That is the thing about science: we admit it can be wrong and replace invalidated theories with better ones when new data presents itself.

We don't suddenly jump to the conclusion that the universe is somehow younger than we thought. We have other, more common, observations that support our current model of the age of the universe. This hot jupiter observation does not disprove it.

The age of the universe? What is the age of "everything?" My hunch, and I'm really going out on a limb here, is that everything must have always been there. There can be no origin event.