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A Modest Proposal for the Non-Existence of Exoplanets

• T-A 4y ago
  Lest somebody take this seriously, what I really want to know is how, after all the work they put into it, they managed to miss the target release date.
  • astrosi 4y ago
    The closer to midnight on a day you submit a paper to the arxiv the closer to the top of the "new" list you are the next day. I assume they submitted at 23:59 and were aiming for 00:00
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  • 51Cards 4y ago
    Submitted March 29th, so likely a gamble on time it takes to get released.
• danpalmer 4y ago
  > Exoplanets don't exist Ok I'll bite... > a novel type of cuboid star, or squar <skepticism intensifies> > the power of the squellar model What a load of bullshit. This is some good trolling, shame about the date not quite being on point.
  • skykooler 4y ago
    The title itself is a hint - it’s a reference to Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay known as A modest Proposal, written in 1729.
  • zzbzq 4y ago
    One of the pieces of evidence in the paper is a screenshot of Minecraft
• rsrsrs86 4y ago
  This was an April’s fool joke
• atemerev 4y ago
  While this is obviously a joke, light curves interpretation is quite challenging at times, indeed.
• aaron695 4y ago
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• kibwen 4y ago
  > Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures, publication pending litigation. For all intents and purposes this manuscript is dated April 1st, 2023