astronomers look at nothing all day....

[deejayshakur]

just saw a news report about the [possible 10th] planet and they were interviewing a caltech professor, dr. brown. every other sentence ended with "...we haven't seen it yet, but it makes for very exciting times ahead." so basically, astronomers look at a bunch of nothing all day?? not trying to bash astronomy, but.... somebody defend the field... or keep bashing.

edit: you're right, not a planet yet.

 

[Heisenberg]

You know nothing about astronomy, do you?

 

[FoBoT]

its not a planet

 

[deejayshakur]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
You know nothing about astronomy, do you?

not really. enlighten me.

 

[Bootprint]

Shouldn't that be 'all night'

And yes I know they don't sit and look through the 'scopes anymore.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: deejayshakur

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
You know nothing about astronomy, do you?

not really. enlighten me.

Without going too deep, a big part of astronomy is detecting unseen objects by the gravitational effects they have on surrounding objects.

 

[poopygood]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
its not a planet

It's a man baby!