/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15845829
I wonder if earth is an outlier, or if the distribution across the parameters they are looking at is just really wide. Like, if they looked for a 'Venus-type planet', what would their luck be. I almost feel it's a moot point because they have such shitty data on the exoplanets they've found, just extrapolating from periodicity and magnitude of star dimming and comparing to the planets in our solar system. Come to think of it, in an absurd hypothetical where we did not live on a planet and had no nearby planets, I wonder how astronomers would interpret the periodic star dimming, having no prior knowledge of planets. I don't know whether to be impressed or skeptical when they say their gamma ray burst readings match prediction for a poopoopeepee event

>>12499376

Defend this