Total nose picking pulling out boogers. Calling this science is total fiction. Don’t you love the exact figures they toss around without — 1410° Fahrenheit (770°C) without bothering to mention the extremely sketchy degree of certainty they’d have to have trying to measure an itty-bitty rock only about 10,400 miles in diameter at the end of an arc of observation 40plus light years long (it ain’t even a pixel pimple on that scale!) while it’s rushing around it’s star in just eleven hours? “If it is this, it may be that” and ‘it could be, but might be this”. . . but these nose pickers can say with authority that it may have a surface like that of our moon or Mercury, when WE couldn’t predict the surfaces of any of our local neighbors accurately INCLUDING Mercury or the back side of our own Moon until we actually went and looked! Don’t get me started on what they thought was under the clouds of Venus just a few short decades ago! Not to mention these guys don’t have a firm grasp on what forces have caused the various features we DO see on the variety of surfaces in our local neighborhood (ask them to explain the numerous hexagonal sided craters we see on the moon, Mars, and even on asteroids), yet they think they can make a prediction about the surface of this supposed “rocky” planet some 48 light years away which they can’t even really see? Talk about irrereproduceable claims and pseudo science! This takes the cake.
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun
The last time I looked, ALL stars, except Sol, are light years "beyond the Sun". And, it'd better stay that way. Who wrote this, a 3nd grader? For 2nd graders?
Anyway, you are right - even in our own Solar System, actual findings have been a surprise at almost every turn, with a GREAT deal still unknown or hotly debated...
(ask them to explain the numerous hexagonal sided craters we see on the moon, Mars, and even on asteroids)...
Those are from rifled meteors.
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Thanks SC for the posting. I was coming to similar conclusions but not quite as extreme Swordmaker offers when one considers the astronomic devices, methods and distances used to offer what may be occurring from this objects observation.
I just wish you wouldn't hold back so much. ;^)
Exoplanet scientists were Nobel prize winners this year, I just haven't posted it. It isn't these guys of course.