Teapots said:

I can assure you that Saudi researchers of any field publish and read the same journals and use the same set of tools and conventions as euro and new world scientists where they did there post-docs. Religious beliefs just don't enter into their work as scientists.

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No, I'm not religious, and I'm not a scientist for the same reasons. There is a balance between everything in this world, and too much of one thing upsets it. On one hand, you have your creationists and fundies, on the other hand you've got scientists who have no business in science. That's how bad science like global warming and this non-existing planet fiasco happens. And by the way, it's not one anomaly. Remember when Pluto was a planet?

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hot jupiter said:

Scientists have discovered a planet that shouldn't exist. The finding, they say, could alter our understanding of orbital dynamics, a field considered pretty well settled since the time of astronomer Johannes Kepler 400 years ago.

The planet is known as a "hot Jupiter," a gas giant orbiting the star Wasp-18, located about 330 light years away. The planet, Wasp-18b, is so close to the star that it completes a full orbit (its "year") in less than an Earth day, according to the research, which was published in the journal Nature.

Of the more than 370 exoplanets — planets orbiting stars other than our sun — discovered so far, this is just the second with such a close orbit.

The problem is that a planet that close should be consumed by its parent star in less than 1 million years, say the authors at Keele University in England. The star Wasp-18 is believed to be about a billion years old, and since stars and the planets around them are thought to form at the same time, Wasp-18b should have been reduced to cinders ages ago.

"This planet should spiral inwards on such a short time scale that the likelihood of seeing it is very low," said Coel Hellier, an astrophysicist at Keele University.

"That's a paradox," added Douglas P. Hamilton, an astronomer at the University of Maryland, who wrote a commentary accompanying the report. He said there are a variety of explanations, but none is satisfactory.

Electric_Lights said:

It's a ball of gas. Why should it be considered a planet at all.

I JUST FARTED AND PLANET CAME OUT

Electric_Lights said:

The unusually quick rotation in orbit, which causes the sphere to have shape.

They have huge mass and strong gravity. They're only gaseous in the outer layers, the core is liquid and solid.

Teapots said:

It really is a sepp thing to think that believing in God excludes objectively exploring and understanding the world.

. said:

Explain the crusades then or the scientists who got locked the fuck up for suggesting things like the Earth orbiting the Sun or even the Earth being round.

Electric_Lights said:

It's a ball of gas. Why should it be considered a planet at all.

Indeed, it should be considered a politician.
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Electric_Lights said:

. said:

Are you retarded or something? What do you think keeps all that gas in one spot?

The unusually quick rotation in orbit, which causes the sphere to have shape.

ImperialExecutive said:

I just love how an aberration is somehow being used to deny the validity of millions of other observations about planetary orbits.

We really only have ~10 planets and ~100 major asteroids to study in detail. We might have discovered another ~50 extrasolar planets from many observations. But the rest of the many trillions of planetary bodies in our galaxy are just too fucking far away to see, or to see in any useful detail. So we're bound to find some surprises when we expand our survey ... but it's unlikely that such a survey will require DENYING the validity of orbital dynamics. The aberration will undoubtedly produce a new category of orbital behavior ... that's all.

In other words: Suck the hot turdloaves out of my anus, religitards. Physics still wins, and your demented religious crap still LOSES.

If science cants explain everathang,
it cants explain anythang!
Jebus rule!
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. said:

Science is worthless!

MAAAMAAA! WHAT SCIENCE?
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. said:

One anomaly, and "science is worthless."

I bet you're a fundie. Your head hurts when you have to do any complex thinking. Like learning your DVD player remote.

No, I'm not religious, and I'm not a scientist for the same reasons. There is a balance between everything in this world, and too much of one thing upsets it. On one hand, you have your creationists and fundies, on the other hand you've got scientists who have no business in science. That's how bad science like global warming and this non-existing planet fiasco happens. And by the way, it's not one anomaly. Remember when Pluto was a planet?

OK, so you're not a full-blown fundie, but more like a closet fundie. Or just as stupid as one.

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scientist found a planet circling a distant sun called "WASP18b"
and science is worthless?.

. said:

Of course it's worthless, because while these nerds spend my tax money searching for some stupid ass planet, I'm spending 80 bucks to fill the gas tank. Is finding another planet light years away gonna help with that, fuckface? Thought not.

Thanks. I've long had that argument also. Too many problems on Earth yet we're focused billions of years away on something we'll never get to.
Who fucking cares?