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- space@lemmy.world
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- space@lemmy.world
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What if NASA just makes this stuff up to get more funding? .
NASA scientist: See that dot?
US Government: Where? There?
NASA scientist: No. The other one.
US Government: That?
NASA scientist: Yuuuup. Totally a Super-Earth.
US Government: Really?
NASA scientist: Dude. Trust me, bro.
US Government: (sighs) Make a color computer render to show the press by Thursday.
. pops champagne cork
EDIT: WOW… people seriously need the /s for this? Damn. This was complete sarcasm.
Independent astronomers and agencies and other countries verify this stuff, so it’d be a complicated conspiracy.
This rocky planet is in another solar system 137 light-years away
From millions of light-years away, we can only see this distant world as a dark dot
🤔
Haha probably meant to write “miles” the second time
Which is funny because that would have been even more inaccurate. “Millions of light years” is off by a factor of 15,000 or more. “Millions of miles” is off by a factor of 400,000,000 or more (2 million miles is 0.00000034 light years).
Reading your comment is the most I have ever felt the “wow, space is incomprehensibly large” feeling.
