[cripplecreek]

One of those situations where the variables are too numerous to allow an accurate theory.

It was easy when we knew of only one solar system and even our formation is only theory.

[BenLurkin]

"I tried to tell them....."

[RightGeek]

I thought the science was settled!

[BitWielder1]

Shows the folly of extrapolating from a single example.
It's always fun to speculate but you don't KNOW until you have more real examples.

[VanDeKoik]

You mean the “consensus” was wrong?!

[hosepipe]

there was a theory so beautiful that astronomers thought it simply had to be true

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Science-masterbation

[colorado tanker]

Unsettled science ping.

[Resolute Conservative]

God is smarter than all of us.

[1raider1]

Following the launch of NASA’s planet-finding Kepler satellite in 2009, the number of possible exoplanets... The operative word here being possible. No planet outside our solar system has ever been seen. The Kepler and others have only detected disturbances in other stars that could be caused by something orbiting them.

[Amendment10]

While scientific theories are falling apart “scientists” still expect everybody to believe in evolution, global warming and that homosexuality is genetic.

[plain talk]

This stuff IS rocket science and is hard. I don’t criticize scientists for not having all the answers. I criticize scientists for their arrogance in acting like they have all the answers. A small dose of humility in the face of God’s incredible creation goes a long ways

[plain talk]

This stuff IS rocket science and is hard. I don’t criticize scientists for not having all the answers. I criticize scientists for their arrogance in acting like they have all the answers. A small dose of humility in the face of God’s incredible creation goes a long way

[Talisker]

Well maybe they should challenge their presumptions right down to the bottom.

Starting with maybe your basic theory is still okay, because how do you know these newly detected planets are, in fact, planets?

Scale?

Compare a firecracker with a nuclear warhead. All you're really looking at is the development of a single basic concept. Why should the starship Enterprise be the standard conceptual size or shape of a "reasonable" imaginary spacecraft?

Iapetus comes to mind...