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To: RadioAstronomer; Physicist; ThinkPlease; edwin hubble; PatrickHenry
first the extra-solar planet deniers (ESPD) screamed: "there's no evidence!!!", then astronomers found spectroscopic evidence of wobbling in nearby stars consistent with planet-sized masses orbiting them, so the ESPD's then screamed: "Yeah, well nobody has ever seen one....", and now it appears, pending further verification, that astronomers have directly imaged an extra-solar planet.

So what will the ESPD's next line of defense/goalpost moving be? "Well, no one has ever tasted one....."?

17 posted on 05/10/2004 1:59:09 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
They'll say, "Not a planet. This is a brown dwarf star." They'll call Jupiter a dwarf star if they have to, just as surely as the next guy--or quite likely the same guy--will call homo erectus an ape to rescue his worldview.
18 posted on 05/10/2004 2:03:41 PM PDT by Physicist
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