Newborn Planet Discovered by JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Newborn Planet Discovered

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UPDATED: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 18:38
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025 6:24 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/astronomers-completely-unexpected-planet-dis
covery-140958239.html

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025 6:30 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

I mean... maybe they did...

430 Light Years away means that with current tech there is no way any living human being will ever be able to travel there and verify it first hand. And I could make those photos in Paint.NET or have A.I. generate them for me.

Not that it matters in the slightest whether or not this planet actually exists to anyone but the people getting grants to keep studying space.

Believing that WISPIT 2b is actually real is akin to having blind faith that God exists.

But unlike believing in God and the promise of living eternity in Heaven in the clouds with magic angels and chubby cherubs, I just don't see any upside to believing that this planet is real, simply because its existence is entirely meaningless to over 8 billion people on our planet, with the only people standing to benefit from people believing that it is real being the dozen or so white labcoats in that facility that are getting government funding every year to build telescopes and spend all day and night looking through them.

Somebody should look into whether or not their funding was set to be cut or reduced before they found this planet.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025 6:38 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Somebody should look into whether or not their funding was set to be cut or reduced before they found this planet.

That wasn't hard... Smoking gun found.

According to the article...

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A comprehensive study on the planet, co-led by Leiden University, the University of Galway, and the University of Arizona, has been published in the international journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

University of Arizona, you say?

'Ghost spacecraft': NASA budget cuts threaten UA's OSIRIS & other missions
7 University of Arizona space projects could be curtailed
Posted Jun 23, 2025, 6:07 pm

https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/062325_osiris_apex/ghost-s
pacecraft-nasa-budget-cuts-threaten-uas-osiris-other-missions/

How convenient they find this meaningless planet only 2 months after they were told that they're going to have their budget massively cut.

Womp. Womp.

Investigate those photographs, and bring up criminal fraud charges against anyone involved in fabricating them if they're found not to be real.

Next!

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