Iphone security is already a joke. There's no anti-virus, firewall, or malware protection of any sort. Get a keylogger on one and any competent hack could bankrupt by buying up Itunes, the first time the owner buys anything on the app stores or itunes. That doesn't even count what could happen if someone were to actually make a purchase at an actual website with the thing. Apple is more worried about protecting the phone from people who want to put their own applications and themes on it, than they are with making it secure. Go figure.
I checked space.com's article on the find, and its totally different stating "If the planet is, in fact, spiraling in toward its star, the demise might not occur for thousands or millions of years, but there should be noticeable changes in its orbital period in about a decade. Astronomers just have to keep their eye on the system."
Can we get an actual scientist to talk about this instead of the freaking LA Times, and Yahoo news? What does space.com say about this thing? There are possibilities that the article doesn't mention. It could have been an interstellar body that wandered by and got pulled in recently.
Or on a more radical shift of thought, it could be non-human intelligences, causing this phenomenon for whatever reasons. Whether you believe aliens visit Earth, or not, anything could exist at that range. There's the possibility that the body is composed of an element we've never seen before with properties we don't know about. All sorts of things could be going on here. Its stupid, and illogical to get people riled up saying stuff like 'We fudged up Orbital Dynamics! Adjust your worldview of the universe at large!'
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Iphone security is already a joke. There's no anti-virus, firewall, or malware protection of any sort. Get a keylogger on one and any competent hack could bankrupt by buying up Itunes, the first time the owner buys anything on the app stores or itunes. That doesn't even count what could happen if someone were to actually make a purchase at an actual website with the thing. Apple is more worried about protecting the phone from people who want to put their own applications and themes on it, than they are with making it secure. Go figure.
I checked space.com's article on the find, and its totally different stating "If the planet is, in fact, spiraling in toward its star, the demise might not occur for thousands or millions of years, but there should be noticeable changes in its orbital period in about a decade. Astronomers just have to keep their eye on the system."
Can we get an actual scientist to talk about this instead of the freaking LA Times, and Yahoo news? What does space.com say about this thing? There are possibilities that the article doesn't mention. It could have been an interstellar body that wandered by and got pulled in recently. Or on a more radical shift of thought, it could be non-human intelligences, causing this phenomenon for whatever reasons. Whether you believe aliens visit Earth, or not, anything could exist at that range. There's the possibility that the body is composed of an element we've never seen before with properties we don't know about. All sorts of things could be going on here. Its stupid, and illogical to get people riled up saying stuff like 'We fudged up Orbital Dynamics! Adjust your worldview of the universe at large!'