xkcd #3278: Vera Rubin Observatory
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'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3278/
12 Comments
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 28d
Space (free)
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 28d
To me Pluto will always be the 9th planet no matter what some fancy pants says it not being able to clean up its orbit. My home is also a little messy that doesn't mean it's not home.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 28d
Whatever you say, Jerry
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
As long as you also accept Ceres, Eris and The Moon as planets, I see no contradiction. I would argue that we should still change the numbering to reflect it, though, since the moon would be the fourth planet, and Ceres the 6th, making Pluto the 11th planet.
The only reason the moon isn't a planet is because the IAU says it isn't in the definition of "planet". MinutePhysics makes a particularly excellent case for that fact, if you're interested.
The Earth/Moon system is a planetary binary. Fight me, IAU sycophants.
mossy_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 28d
I feel like an observatory that detects space is malfunctioning. they're supposed to look past that stuff yeah?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 27d
Staring into space is how we discovered the Hubble Deep Field.
Ooops@feddit.org · 1 pts · 28d
That's actually dark matter they fail to see...
mossy_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
not so much "fail to see space" as "space is an obstacle between earth and the things we want to see", similar to earth's atmosphere getting in the way
Ooops@feddit.org · 2 pts · 28d
No, I meant discovering that see-through area (space) by failing to find the (dark) matter expected there.
mossy_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
I seee... figuratively speaking
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 28d
Signal from the kitchen seems more likely than a Earth sized TNO
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 28d
I'm going for the long odds on Vera's spaceship. Just deciding on column/row (I don't know how to play bingo)