We are about to invade planet Beta Pictoris b.
It is 60 light years away.
How do I know this you might ask?
Look at the evidence, the just released video of the gas giant orbiting it's sun:
This is the best footage yet of an exoplanet orbiting its star...thanks to the incredible optical engineering that’s gone into the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) instrument on the Gemini South telescope in Chile. GPI’s adaptive optics system sharpens the image of the target star by canceling out distortion caused by Earth’s atmosphere.
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-best-foot...1731789020
Now let's look at the evidence:
#1 The Protesters have repeatedly pointed out that the TMT will have military applications, as it uses "adaptive optics," to improve the images it gathers, a technology first used by the military. It's simple logic, any application invented or first utilized by the military will always lead back to the military. Like the internet you now use, or the Protesters employ in their social media outreach program. We are all pawns in the web. Certainly this new video from Chile must have military applications.
#2 TomK has been noticeably absent this past week. Did it occur to anyone else that the days he was missing coincides with the release of this new video of Beta Pictoris b? He claims to have been "busy" with work, but that's just the half of it. Clearly astronomers are part of the military-industrial-astronomical round table (only shape that fits in an observatory) discussions which concern the imminent space launch and invasion of Beta Pictoris b.
#3 But HOTPE, you say, the exoplanet is 60 light years away. Why would we want to go there? Why indeed. Obviously for fuel. For now scientists claim Beta Pictoris b is a "gas giant." But it's got to be more than your average, regular gas giant or even an ethanol free 89 octane giant. Most likely it's a secret infinite source of energy. An extremely powerful and compact form of fuel that the wily scientists have decided to extract and then transport back to earth in a modified Space X Dragon capsule, hopefully through a wormhole to speed up the travel time. Notice how quiet scientists have been about wormholes lately? Exactly like the frogs and dogs in Puna right before an earthquake. Just wait, you'll see, we're obviously about to receive an earth rattling announcement concerning Wormhole Space Travel. Possibly two announcements within a few weeks of each other, as they always come in pairs. I hope the second disclosure is a wormhole passing lane, because no matter how fast the first wormhole might be, somebody is bound to block the space traffic when they insist on traveling 10% slower than the speed of light. With their blinker accidentally turned on.
"What? I thought they were going to turn off at Alpha Centauri..."
So TomK, what have you to say? Anything you can reveal to a few (discreet) friends on Punaweb? Any chance the adaptive optics on the TMT might discover a Gold Planet? Or a Diamond Planet? Or perhaps the rarest discovery in all the universe, a planet populated by competent, honest county workers willing to relocate in Hawaii?
