I don't understand why there's so many starving astronomy PhD's and yet HN prefers to read astronomy blogposts written by amateurs asking ChatGPT5 what the astronomers think. Can't HN just link to competent peoples' writing instead?
Because the astronomy PhDs would know these transients on sky surveys are entirely normal, and how we spot asteroids etc. And that our solar system has trillions of little chunks of water floating around it. "This is normal" makes for boring reading.
Yes. It much more reponsibly admits the existence of plausible alternative explanations than the blog post does, and its page notes that it may not have been peer reviewed yet.
It also says In this paper, we present the first optical searches for artificial
objects with high specular reflections near the Earth. and was published only a few weeks ago.
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Followed immediately by a picture of water and an icy tree, lol. "Correcting", indeed. "Correcting for expenses, I'm very wealthy!"
Ah.
I don't understand why there's so many starving astronomy PhD's and yet HN prefers to read astronomy blogposts written by amateurs asking ChatGPT5 what the astronomers think. Can't HN just link to competent peoples' writing instead?
Because the astronomy PhDs would know these transients on sky surveys are entirely normal, and how we spot asteroids etc. And that our solar system has trillions of little chunks of water floating around it. "This is normal" makes for boring reading.
At first I was interested, then I read their other blog posts...
Does it matter when they link to their source, right at the top, which points to
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_m... ?
Anyone can upload papers to ResearchGate.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283268416_Condition...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331977356_The_elect...
Yes, yes. But have read the linked one?
Yes. It much more reponsibly admits the existence of plausible alternative explanations than the blog post does, and its page notes that it may not have been peer reviewed yet.
It also says In this paper, we present the first optical searches for artificial objects with high specular reflections near the Earth. and was published only a few weeks ago.
Give it time?