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WASP-104b is Darker than Charcoal
By analysing the K2 short-cadence data from Campaign 14 we detect phase-curve modulation in the light curve of the hot-Jupiter host star WASP-104. The ellipsoidal modulation is detected with high significance and in agreement with theoretical expectations, while Doppler beaming and reflection modulations are detected tentatively. We show that the visual geometric albedo is lower than 0.03 at 95% confidence, making it one of the least-reflective planets found to date. The light curve also exhibits a rotational modulation, implying a stellar rotational period likely to be near 23 or 46 days. In addition, we refine the system parameters and place tight upper limits for transit timing and duration variations, starspot occultation events, and additional transiting planets.
WASP-104b's albedo was previously thought to be 0.4 (absorbing 60% of incoming light).
Also at ScienceAlert.
Related: NASA Finds a Pitch-Black Hot Jupiter Exoplanet (WASP-12b)
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @07:41PM (5 children)
"4. But since He created Lucifer, isn’t God really responsible for his sin?
Answer: Not at all. God created Lucifer a perfect, sinless angel. Lucifer made a devil of himself. Freedom to choose is a cornerstone principle of God’s government. God knew Lucifer would sin when He created him. If at that point God had refused to create Lucifer, He would have been repudiating one of His own characteristics of love; that is, the freedom to choose."
https://www.amazingfacts.org/media-library/study-guide/e/4979/t/did-god-create-the-devil- [amazingfacts.org]
Which is more or less what I already said. You can rage at the world all you want or me for the "evil God" that I believe and serve. The truth is that Satan has been spinning the "God is evil" lie for a long, long time. There are numerous occasions where God killed or asked His people to kill. The fact is that the wages of sin is death.
"Regarding the command to eradicate entire nations, I believe that God had to because the influence of these nations left unchecked would ultimately lead to the death of many more innocent people. It’s helpful to keep in mind that nations like the Canaanites engaged in human sacrifice, even offering their children to devil gods. (See Deuteronomy 12:31.) Additionally, not only did God use Israel’s might to punish evil nations like these, He used the Babylonian, Assyrian, and Egyptian kings to punish Israel. God will often use human forces to mete out His discipline."
https://www.amazingfacts.org/news-and-features/news/item/id/10883/t/why-did-god-order-genocide [amazingfacts.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:20PM (4 children)
I notice that at no time in that extended exercise in al-dente copypasta-boiling did you ever even attempt to engage with what was actually being said to you. Which, I find, is typical for apologists. You're wasting space and electrons.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @08:36PM (3 children)
Al-dente copy-pasta is good copy-pasta. Both were more or less direct replies to what you were asking about. You don't have to accept the argument I put forth. Do you not believe in Free Will?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:38PM (2 children)
First of all, no, neither of those were even close to direct replies. They were of the following form:
(Freeman) I believe X Y and Z
(Hazuki) Look, X Y and Z don't work because X and Y are mutually contradictory and Z is disproven due to A and B
(Freeman) *states X Y and Z again with some links*
What I believe is irrelevant. You must believe in a very specific, libertarian type of free will for your theology even to have a single toehold (it self-destructs elsewhere, but let's not get into that). That idea is incompatible with not only your theology but, I suspect, with some of the more recent discoveries in QM, which may be one reason so many scientists are compatibilists.
Are you going to actually read what the fuck i said up there, or are you just going to sit here constantly asserting the same things and wondering why I'm not falling on my face in religious awe?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday April 26 2018, @10:14PM (1 child)
How many Angels can dance on the head of a pin? / Prove the existence of Free Will.
What you believe is relevant, if you're actually trying to have a conversation. Otherwise, you're just tossing wood on the fire.
Here's a definition, if you need to know what "Free Will" is referring to. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/free-will [dictionary.com]
Without it, there can be no meaning to your "choices", and you can't be held accountable for your actions. Since, you had no choice. The idea that we don't have Free Will is akin to the practice of indulgences. Except, you don't have to pay someone to feel better.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 27 2018, @03:09AM
Why does talking logic with you feel like trying to explain mountaineering to an oyster? You're so deep in Dunning-Krugerland you can't even see where my objections are coming from or why they're being made.
Go back up to that post where I was asking you why an omniscient etc etc etc God needs a plan, and read those words carefully. The supposed attributes of your God-figure make this plan a transparent sham. Make sure you understand the implications of omniscience (as opposed to just knowing a hell of a lot), omnipotence (as opposed to just being really strong) and especially absolute sovereignty (as opposed to just "being in charge") before you respond again.
Not for nothing is it said that unbelievers take Yahweh much more seriously than his partisans. That is why we tend to be unbelievers in the first place...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...