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Study Concludes "Planet" Was Just Stellar Spots

Posted by timothy on from the waste-of-missiles dept.

Kligat writes "Back in January, it was reported that the youngest planet ever to be discovered, about ten times the mass of Jupiter, was orbiting the eight- to ten-million-year-old star TW Hydrae. Now a Spanish research team has concluded that TW Hydrae b doesn't exist, and that cold spots on the star's surface actually produced the dip in brightness instead of a transiting planet. Not as cool as if a planet had actually been there, but refutations are science, too, right?"

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  1. Damn! by Chlorus · · Score: 4, Funny

    And I had just bought real estate there too! Think they'll give me my money back if I ask nicely?

    1. Re:Damn! by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had just bought real estate there
       
      You think that sucks; a friend of mine just left on a one way colony transport.

    2. Re:Damn! by needs2bfree · · Score: 2, Funny

      First Pluto, now this!

    3. Re:Damn! by drseuk · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's no planet!

    4. Re:Damn! by laejoh · · Score: 5, Funny

      My friend is a telephone sanitizer as well, care to share the name of the holiday agency?

    5. Re:Damn! by beckerist · · Score: 2, Funny

      I've got a question...why the hell do all clods have to be insensitive?! I've known some clods that have bawled their eyes out over roadkill!

      So regardless of the prior art and ownership of that line being yours, think of the clods, because they can be sensitive too.

  2. The other "bubble". by sethstorm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Talk about a not-so-real estate bubble.

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  3. Re:It's Science! by bishiraver · · Score: 4, Funny

    Science: it works, bitches.

  4. I don't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    but could this mean that OUR planet is just a stellar spot?

    1. Re:I don't RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      But our planet is not disappearing, therefore either our planet is not a stellar spot, or there is no global warming.

  5. WTF? by jav1231 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Frankly, I think the CS'ers (Cold Spotters) are just trying to debunk established scientific facts with fantastic claims that are based in conjecture. All of us Transitional Planetists need to make sure these clowns don't teach this shit in our schools!

    This is where I sit back and watch the establishment piss themselves to mod me down first.

    1. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Welcome to the internet, Grandma. You'll catch on eventually.

  6. Re:Broken Dreams by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    i had that job for awhile, but I was on the night shift.

  7. Transcript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientist 1: "OMG! There's a tear in the cosmic fabric of space-time! It's swallowing galaxies, heading right for us, and we're all going to DIE!"

    Scientist 2: "Would you chill out? It was just a hair on the eyepiece. Look again."

    Scientist 1: "Oh. Right. Well, that's enough science for this morning. I think I'm going to break for lunch, now..."