NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours (cnet.com) 69
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google isn't just good for finding cat videos on the internet. The search giant's machine learning technology is also helping search the universe for planets outside our solar system. NASA on Thursday revealed the discovery of blazing-hot exoplanet Kepler-90i thanks to the use of a Google neural network trained to identify planets from the NASA Kepler space telescope's data. It's the eighth planet discovered in the Kepler-90 system, which ties it with our own solar system for the most known planets around a single star. Kepler-90 is a sun-like star located around 2,545 light-years from us.
In Solar System?! Oh no... (Score:5, Insightful)
So, the title makes it sound they found more plants rivaling our planet in our solar system. At least say "NASA, Google Spot Eighth Exoplanet in a Solar System Rivaling Our Own"
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The google images shows them having switch blades.
Re:In Solar System?! Oh no... (Score:5, Insightful)
Had the same confusion.
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Exactly. Thank you.
Our star is Sol. Our star system is the Solar System.
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No, that's the Latin name for the Sun, though we use that word as base for adjectives. It's just the fucking Sun in English.
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This. It's like "luna", anyone who uses it is a pretentious wanker too.
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the point is astronomy in English speaking countries calls that star the Sun. It is not called "Sol".
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You're all mixed up. The name is Sol. It's not "the Sun", nor is it "The Sun". It would be "the sun", or "our sun" or "a sun". The word "sun" is a generic term for a star with planets orbiting it (actually, orbiting the barycenter of the system).
The phrase "the sun" is a planetary-centric expression referring to the star in the planet's system (or one of the multiple in the system). The sun effects various phenomena upon the planet, such as sunrise, sunset, sunshine, etc. When referring to exoplanets
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absolutely false, you are ignorant of astronomy. Educate your ignorant self before spewing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Nope, u dum.
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Does it?
When they came for Pluto, I did not speak out ...
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Yeah, I assumed that was an editor error. Why the animosity?
Re: In Solar System?! Oh no... (Score:2)
Re: In Solar System?! Oh no... (Score:2)
We can get there in 100,000 years if we start building generation ships 1000 years from now. Traveling at 3% of the speed of light is not inconceivable.
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It's "Eighth Planet in (Solar System Rivaling[sic] Ours)", I think. Though I see where you're coming from.
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NBIRU!
Headline fail (Score:2)
Danger! Danger! Slashdot headline failure detected!
Google isn't just good for finding cat videos (Score:1)
SHUT THE FUCK UP
Would someone tell me how this happened? (Score:5, Funny)
We were the fucking vanguard of the galaxy. The Solar System was the place to be. Then some other system comes out with 8 planets. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called Pluto. That was a honey of a planet with a sweet ass name. But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened—the bastards downgraded it to a dwarf planet. Now we're standing around with our cocks in our hands, selling 8 planets and a gimp. Gimp or not, suddenly we're the chumps. Well, fuck it. We're going to 12 planets...and a moisture strip.
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Please tell me you made that up, it's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
I'm especially going to use the "But you know what happened next? Shut up, I'm telling you what happened" in all the stories I tell.
Re:Would someone tell me how this happened? (Score:4, Informative)
that's based on the Onion parady of the multi-blade razor offerings
https://www.theonion.com/fuck-... [theonion.com]
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Our solar system has the best planets, believe me! Those Google planets are all fake planets, fake...planets! They were "discovered" by loser "scientists" who work for CNN. I know more about astronomy than Wheelchair Hawkings, believe me! I put the "me" in "astronome". It's not astronohillary, is it! Noooo. I gave Saturn's rings to Melania as a wedding gift. Loved 'em! Crooked Hillary got Uranus. So sad.
And illegal aliens demoted Pluto trying to rig the electoral college counts. I mean Earth aliens, not go
Why, NASA? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re: Why, NASA? (Score:2)
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A simple press release, without any drama, would have been more than enough. By proceeding the way the are, NASA are stirring up false expectations in the public.
If you don't want the public to be aware that NASA is doing anything at all, sure. It's a bit sad that they have to resort to such a clickbait tactic, but at least by creating a bit of fuss and mystery the press feels compelled to run the main story because of all those who'll click to get the answer. Otherwise it's just another yawner from NASA who only a few space nerds will click on that might not even be worth running. People are already apathetic and indifferent, unless it's alien life or a warp drive
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New frontiers of sensitivity, blaming America first, solving made up problems, without giving any single country any advantage in the process.
There is only one "Solar System" (Score:5, Informative)
There are many "star systems". Our is called the Solar System because our sun's name is Sol.
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There are many "star systems". Our is called the Solar System because our sun's name is Sol.
Actually, sol is just latin for sun. Not sure that counts as a proper name.
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Actually, sol is just latin for sun. Not sure that counts as a proper name.
Not trying to be a jerk with this reply, but your feelings are not facts.
Solar System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
"This article is about the Sun and its planetary system. For other similar systems, see Star system": Star System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
"The Latin name for the Sun, Sol, is not common in general English language use; the adjectival form is the related word solar."
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Did you even read what you wrote?
The Sun Creed (Score:2)
This is my sun. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
meowter space (Score:1)
8 planets full of cat videos, oh my!
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Computational Astronomy (Score:2)
Computational Astronomy, the confluence of past/current astronomical data with machine learning will truly transform what we think of as astronomy. With telescopes like LSST coming online in the next few years things are about to get really interesting.
KNOWN exoplanets (Score:2)
Our own solar system would not look like it to aliens from another star using a Kepler-like detection system. Because the orbits of the planets in our system have different inclinations, even if they could detect one of our planets the chances are small that they could detect another. In fact they would never be able to detect more than 3 of our planets using that method (Mercury+Earth+Mars or Mercury+Venus+Saturn). About 95% of the time when they could see one planet transit they wouldn't be able to see