Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots 132
Kligat writes "Back in January, it was reported that the youngest planet ever to be discovered, about ten times the mass of Jupiter, was orbiting the eight- to ten-million-year-old star TW Hydrae. Now a Spanish research team has concluded that TW Hydrae b doesn't exist, and that cold spots on the star's surface actually produced the dip in brightness instead of a transiting planet. Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"
Damn! (Score:4, Funny)
The other "bubble". (Score:5, Funny)
Talk about a not-so-real estate bubble.
Re:It's Science! (Score:5, Funny)
Science: it works, bitches.
I don't RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
I had just bought real estate there
You think that sucks; a friend of mine just left on a one way colony transport.
WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
This is where I sit back and watch the establishment piss themselves to mod me down first.
Re:Damn! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Broken Dreams (Score:2, Funny)
i had that job for awhile, but I was on the night shift.
Re:Damn! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I don't RTFA (Score:2, Funny)
But our planet is not disappearing, therefore either our planet is not a stellar spot, or there is no global warming.
Re:WTF? (Score:1, Funny)
Welcome to the internet, Grandma. You'll catch on eventually.
Transcript (Score:4, Funny)
Scientist 1: "OMG! There's a tear in the cosmic fabric of space-time! It's swallowing galaxies, heading right for us, and we're all going to DIE!"
Scientist 2: "Would you chill out? It was just a hair on the eyepiece. Look again."
Scientist 1: "Oh. Right. Well, that's enough science for this morning. I think I'm going to break for lunch, now..."
Re:Damn! (Score:5, Funny)
My friend is a telephone sanitizer as well, care to share the name of the holiday agency?
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