Some of the stuff being announced about space seems to me like scientists restating stuff we should've known 50 years ago. Like, our star has more than 2 planets around it. If that's the case with lots of stars, then it's obvious there would be of a higher number of planets going "rogue".
Well, science doesn't really operate by assuming what the truth is. If it did it wouldn't be science.
And if it's so obvious that we should've known this 50 years ago, you could've gone down in history as the scientist who discovered this truth. But instead you're complaining on the internet about other people trying to prove it.
Actually, informed guesses make a lot of sense when we have limited data. Science doesn't operate by assuming that we know nothing outside of what we have evidence for. That wouldn't be logical at all. That being said, it is of course interesting and valuable to confirm our hypotheses.
We first detected exoplanets in 1992 (that was for a planet orbitig a neutron star, for one orbiting a "vanilla" star it was 1995). So until 25-30 years ago, we had NO data on the frequency of exoplanets. Exoplanet hunting really only hit its stride in the 2010s.
Things have become a lot clearer in the last couple of decades. I guess it's easy to take our current knowledge for granted.
> An upcoming NASA mission could find that there are more rogue planets — planets that float in space without orbiting a sun — than there are stars in the Milky Way, a new study theorizes.
I don't think we've detected a single rogue planet, so this theory would seem novel to me.
Same here. I recently had an interview where I was 100% qualified for the Job, it went swimmingly good most of the interview, but I realized afterward there was a discrepancy in terminology that made me look like I didn't have experience in what they were asking for.
The problem was that, with my experience and resume listing those things clearly, and the company in site need to fill this position, why didn't the interviewer ask a single question, even challenging my resume based on my answers.
I get it could've been a thousand other things, but this single exchange really stood out to me as something I would've delved deeper into in the interviews I've conducted.
In my opinion, as douchy as it sounds, the company lost out on not hiring me. They still have the posting up 3 weeks later, and wanted to spin someone up in 30 days because of a 4 month work backlog. Had the person asked maybe test more questions, they would've had someone in that spot.
I just picked up their new Ryzen 5 4500U laptop and slapped Mint on it with the latest rc for kernel 5.8. its one of the best laptops i've had, esp running linux.
Fuck this. I don't like Tik too and WeChat, I don't think people should use them, and I don't trust China, but we don't need the government telling us what software we can use. This is not good.
