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1 posted on 08/21/2020 11:37:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Aren’t these planets kind of freelancing? Do the Democrats know about this?


2 posted on 08/21/2020 11:39:47 AM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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I suspect many planets began this way and drifted about the universe until they were captured by a stars gravity field.


3 posted on 08/21/2020 11:41:59 AM PDT by granite (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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Meh. We knew this back in the mid-79’s when a nuclear explosion on the far side of the moon sent Luna to other solar systems.


4 posted on 08/21/2020 11:43:16 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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Those rouges! Gotta watch them rouge planets. Sneaking around out there.


8 posted on 08/21/2020 11:44:46 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: Red Badger

Hazards to astrogation.


9 posted on 08/21/2020 11:46:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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"...rogue planets — planets that float in space..."

OTOH, maybe they are planets that have been turned into the ultimate space ships by very advanced civilizations...

10 posted on 08/21/2020 11:47:30 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: Red Badger

they are glossing over a lot

they have so-called well established theories as to how planets form

this most likely upends multiple parts of those theories


11 posted on 08/21/2020 11:47:40 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Science is now just phenomenological without wisdom. So there are roughly spherical lumps of rock out there unteathered by a parent star. I’d be surprised if there weren’t.


15 posted on 08/21/2020 11:54:06 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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This makes me angrier than I’ve ever been.


17 posted on 08/21/2020 12:18:37 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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“The universe could be teeming with rogue planets and we wouldn’t even know it,” said Scott Gaudi...

Which means you don't know. Which means your statement is meaningless. Congrats on your 15 minutes of fame. Now go away...

18 posted on 08/21/2020 12:21:23 PM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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I expected rogue planets outnumber stars by at least 1000 to 1. There’s a lot more small things than big things in nature so space has to be littered with them. Rogue planets may be how we explore the galaxy because a planet has resources, gravity, and Mass to shield us from interstellar radiation.. They are the ultimate generation-ships. We will not be able to steer unless it’s a small planetoid and will pretty much have to go where they go but what a ride it will be.
19 posted on 08/21/2020 12:22:46 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ("Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither.")
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Rogue Planets = Death Stars


21 posted on 08/21/2020 12:24:31 PM PDT by RedMonqey
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I have always wondered about rogue planets being out there...
thanks for this.

I wondered about there being dark gas giants out there with their own solar systems.
Gas giants that just didn’t quite have that oomph to turn into a shining star..


26 posted on 08/21/2020 12:53:20 PM PDT by mowowie
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Maybe this is where all the ‘dark matter’ is hiding.


31 posted on 08/21/2020 1:07:58 PM PDT by Track9 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to ShiÂ’ite since 632 AD)
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How much mass is missing, now?


36 posted on 08/21/2020 2:38:22 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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There was a 1950s novel where a rogue pair of planets enters our solar system, smash Earth, and the survivors have to jump to the new world that happens to have domed cities left over by THAT world’s former survivors.


38 posted on 08/21/2020 3:39:48 PM PDT by tbw2
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We are losing our moon, so stars losing their planets should not be much of a surprize at all.

The universe is incomprehensibly old, to we mere mortals. There are things we can never know, or even dream of.


41 posted on 08/21/2020 4:50:58 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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53 posted on 08/22/2020 1:38:05 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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