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Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth
National Geographic ^ | 7/1/2020 | Nadia Drake

Posted on 10/31/2020 12:01:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker

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Several months old. Never posted. Planets this heavy are always gas giants. Not this one. It's rocky with little to no atmosphere. Bizarre for sure.
1 posted on 10/31/2020 12:01:44 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Sounds like a useless rock.


2 posted on 10/31/2020 12:56:55 AM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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I’m sure it’s already been featured in an episode of Star Trek, Twilight Zone, or Lost In Space. What’s the big deal?


3 posted on 10/31/2020 12:58:09 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
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With inhabitants that speak English :)


4 posted on 10/31/2020 1:12:51 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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The thing that bothers me about all the effort going into finding exoplanets is that we could guess they were there but we can’t go there or send probes, so why not wait until we have warp drive and can make use of the info?


5 posted on 10/31/2020 1:14:01 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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And hot chicks!


6 posted on 10/31/2020 1:40:24 AM PDT by angmo (#joeknew)
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LOL

I don’t care if they’re green either.

This is the age of diversity!!


7 posted on 10/31/2020 1:42:55 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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Exactly. We can go to the stars, or we can stay here and fight inequality.


8 posted on 10/31/2020 1:50:25 AM PDT by Right Republican (Right Republican)
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9 posted on 10/31/2020 1:55:28 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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That was Batgirl. Nuff said.


10 posted on 10/31/2020 2:03:38 AM PDT by angmo (#joeknew)
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I didn’t know that!

She was the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta!!

I’ve always wanted a green skinned Orion slave girl named Marta!


11 posted on 10/31/2020 2:06:08 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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You always have to look at the mother. My Orion slave girl’s mother was 4,200 lbs. With ankles the size of redwoods.


12 posted on 10/31/2020 2:33:09 AM PDT by angmo (#joeknew)
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“Planets this heavy are always gas giants.”
So is my brother-in-law.


13 posted on 10/31/2020 2:49:38 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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rofl


14 posted on 10/31/2020 2:52:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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Do you ever sleep? Ha!


15 posted on 10/31/2020 3:53:58 AM PDT by angmo (#joeknew)
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God continues to mock science. Good for Him.

Other than that, it is always fantastic reading about discoveries that shouldn’t exist. It stands science on its head and challenges conventional wisdom.

I like how the scientists are so convinced that massive planets can only be gas giants, that this new rocky planet “must” be the remnant of a gas giant. NO IT DOESN’T. We don’t know. We likelly will never know. Who knows how good their theories of planet formation are? The odds are, they are completely wrong. I am not knocking the scientists, just noting how little we truly know about the universe, even though we know more than any people ever have.

God must have had a great time creating all this.


16 posted on 10/31/2020 4:21:27 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Love your enemies. Turn the other cheek.)
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17 posted on 10/31/2020 4:42:09 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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A mixture of metals, silicates, water, and possibly a (very) small atmosphere and sweltering 2800°F. How can it have water if it’s 2800°F? Maybe water vapor.


18 posted on 10/31/2020 5:30:33 AM PDT by jonsie
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Something in that standard process went wrong.


See, we’ve been finding planets for over a decade and have already deduced the “standard process”, aren’t we just the little geniuses!


19 posted on 10/31/2020 5:44:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Sounds like a useless rock.

Dyson Sphere


20 posted on 10/31/2020 5:45:40 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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