News "Alien world ‘home to Star Trek’s Spock’ is ‘space illusion’ as scientists warn we’re being tricked"
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If there was ever a premise for a CAPRICORN TWO film, this is it.
Well, had its existence been confirmed, and that it was an incredibly green, lush world, brimming with life, Star Trek fans probably still would have been disappointed because Vulcan is supposed to be mostly a desert world.
I guess the next thing they'll say is that Qo'noS and Cardassia Prime don't exist either...
More observations might find a planet in that system.
People gonna be so mad we're in that timeline
People gonna be so mad we're in that timeline
Yeah, but just think of all the lens flare!
At least Beastie Boys still exist, vs. the constant barrage of classical music in the 24th centuryPeople gonna be so mad we're in that timeline
WWWhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
But that is classical music!At least Beastie Boys still exist, vs. the constant barrage of classical music in the 24th century
Here’s your replacement:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_12
A hot world with somewhat greater gravity—and is only 40 ly out
Other candidates
https://www.universetoday.com/16728...nd-orbiting-a-jupiter-sized-star/#more-167283
https://www.earth.com/news/weird-exoplanet-has-puffy-atmosphere-despite-intense-radiation/
Some rogue planets found
https://www.universetoday.com/167326/euclid-is-finding-free-floating-planets-in-orion-too/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_12
A hot world with somewhat greater gravity—and is only 40 ly out
Other candidates
https://www.universetoday.com/16728...nd-orbiting-a-jupiter-sized-star/#more-167283
https://www.earth.com/news/weird-exoplanet-has-puffy-atmosphere-despite-intense-radiation/
Some rogue planets found
https://www.universetoday.com/167326/euclid-is-finding-free-floating-planets-in-orion-too/
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40 Eri A is canon by virtue of it being ~ 16 ly away. That was mentioned in ENT S4.
I have long suspected that all distances/systems/planets are farther out than canon says they are.
I found this shocking information on the Popular Science website:
We can officially say goodbye to the real-life version of the fictional Vulcan home world.
Astronomers have found that signals interpreted as signs of a world orbiting a star called 40 Eridani A, or HD 26965 – the star around which the planet Vulcan orbits in the sci-fi franchise Star Trek – were false positives, not generated by an orbiting exoplanet after all.
A closer analysis has revealed that the signals likely originate from the star itself.
It's the fourth paper delving into the possible existence of a real-life Vulcan, and the third to find no exoplanet (one of the studies was inconclusive). We can probably safely put the nail in that particular coffin and move on.
So what does this statement on a Gray Universe website mean?
Have we been fooled?
Or is those scientists lying?
Or have we got the wrong information about Vulcan and the truth is that it orbits another sun than 40 Eridani A,
And in that case, where is Vulcan?
Will previous facts about Vulcan be declared as "non-canon" and the location of Vulcan will be altered in future books or series?
We can officially say goodbye to the real-life version of the fictional Vulcan home world.
Astronomers have found that signals interpreted as signs of a world orbiting a star called 40 Eridani A, or HD 26965 – the star around which the planet Vulcan orbits in the sci-fi franchise Star Trek – were false positives, not generated by an orbiting exoplanet after all.
A closer analysis has revealed that the signals likely originate from the star itself.
It's the fourth paper delving into the possible existence of a real-life Vulcan, and the third to find no exoplanet (one of the studies was inconclusive). We can probably safely put the nail in that particular coffin and move on.
So what does this statement on a Gray Universe website mean?
Have we been fooled?
Or is those scientists lying?
Or have we got the wrong information about Vulcan and the truth is that it orbits another sun than 40 Eridani A,
And in that case, where is Vulcan?
Will previous facts about Vulcan be declared as "non-canon" and the location of Vulcan will be altered in future books or series?
Star Trek's Vulcan isn't real. Sure it was fun that science seemed to indicate that a planet similar to the fictional Vulcan existed, But science has no obligation to full fill our fantasy.
Was there ever any doubt?
Merging this with the pre-existing thread.
40Eri is too far away for us to really know much about any planets it might have anyway.
And more to the point, at least as of the last time I checked, ST is a work of fiction. The Great Bird of the Galaxy and his successors are writers. They're not gods over anything other than the fictional milieux they create.
And more to the point, at least as of the last time I checked, ST is a work of fiction. The Great Bird of the Galaxy and his successors are writers. They're not gods over anything other than the fictional milieux they create.
