this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2023
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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

NASA will land a probe on the surface on planet 9 only to find that the entire thing is made of unsold carts of the Atari 2600 E.T. game.

[–] DoctorWhookah@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is under appreciated, You will never get the credit that you deserve. lol!

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

As is your username…

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Beat me to it

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Big_Boss_77@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It's light... not a chicken tender.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Well I mean at this point it's a meme, and will continue to be so until somebody actually finds the damn thing.

[–] xkforce@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nope. MOND is not the answer. It is never going to be the answer. There are too many things that MOND cannot explain. One of the reasons why planet 9 was hypothesized to exist is because the orbits of objects far from the sun are out of plane in weird highly elliptical orbits not explainable through modification of gravity's effects at small force scales. Dark matter is another phenomenon MOND was meant to explain away but cant. i.e the bullet cluster is an object with less than 1% of its mass accountable by visible matter. MOND cannot make up the difference. Structures like this are only explainable if dark matter actually exists. The best MOND can hope for is to account for some but not all, of the discrepancy.

[–] alansuspect@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

You said MOND so many times then I just have to go and read the article!