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May 29, 2024 7:33 PM

Vulcan loses planet status
posted by sardonyx (27 comments total)

Are they sure it wasn't Romulans?
posted by Zalzidrax at 7:49 PM on May 29 [11 favorites]

messy stellar jitters masquerading as a planet.

imagine party crashing a pulsar.
posted by clavdivs at 7:55 PM on May 29 [2 favorites]

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The Force will be with them, always.
posted by PlusDistance at 7:57 PM on May 29 [6 favorites]

Dammit, we're in the Kelvin timeline!
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 8:16 PM on May 29 [16 favorites]

Meanwhile, Pluto does a Nelson laugh.
posted by biogeo at 8:20 PM on May 29 [7 favorites]

Gentlemen, start growing your goatees.
posted by fairmettle at 8:21 PM on May 29 [9 favorites]

the planet appeared to be on shaky ground
smh
posted by HearHere at 8:27 PM on May 29 [5 favorites]

Fascinating.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:52 PM on May 29 [10 favorites]

Excelsior!
posted by Wallace Shawn at 8:57 PM on May 29 [2 favorites]

Stupid J.J. Abrams.
posted by JHarris at 9:19 PM on May 29 [5 favorites]

Fake news
posted by potrzebie at 10:28 PM on May 29

NASA should check their instruments for any signs of a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
posted by Hogshead at 2:57 AM on May 30 [3 favorites]

Dammit, we're in the Kelvin timeline!

*Fires up Sabotage, now considered to be classical music.*

Also, the only song to survive the Eugenics Wars.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 4:32 AM on May 30 [7 favorites]

i'm going to choose to blame rick berman for this
posted by Aya Hirano on the Astral Plane at 4:38 AM on May 30 [5 favorites]

#1. Someone check in with Eric Bana, make sure he isn't missing.
#2. It is imperative we get to Delta Vega as quickly as possible. This is Elon's one chance for redemption.
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:19 AM on May 30

🎵 That's highly illogical. 🎵
posted by jabah at 5:37 AM on May 30

Isn’t it called Ni’Var now?
posted by dr_dank at 5:53 AM on May 30 [1 favorite]

Damn. What happens now when I go into pon farr?
posted by srboisvert at 5:54 AM on May 30 [2 favorites]

Damn. What happens now when I go into pon farr?

There's always pon farr night at the Vulcan nightclub.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:33 AM on May 30 [1 favorite]

The bad news for "Star Trek" fans comes from an instrument known as NEID, a recent addition to the complex of telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory. NEID, like other radial velocity instruments, relies on the Doppler effect: shifts in the light spectrum of a star that reveal its wobbling motions.

So what you're saying is the needs of the many were outweighed by the NEID of the one?
posted by The Bellman at 6:39 AM on May 30 [19 favorites]

Mmm I see the planetary cloaking device is working. Gotta keep humans in their zoo!
posted by Wretch729 at 6:43 AM on May 30

Breaking astronomy news of ... 1919?

I had no idea they had resurrected the Vulcan hypothesis for an entirely different solar system. Are we really that short on names?
posted by Not A Thing at 6:44 AM on May 30 [2 favorites]

(This does resolve something that had always confused me about Star Trek -- I'd always thought there was a bit of unnecessary suspension of disbelief in setting the stories in a world where Le Verrier's hypothesis was true. But Spock was always from the other Vulcan at 40 Eridani A, I guess?)
posted by Not A Thing at 6:53 AM on May 30

It’s a faaaaaaake!
posted by omegajuice at 7:43 AM on May 30 [4 favorites]

well, there was that pesky planetary nebula business in its past that made it kind of shady from the git-go...
posted by graywyvern at 8:04 AM on May 30

[IT IS INTENDED TO BE AN NBC TELEVISION SHOW FOR CHILDREN.]
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:44 AM on May 30 [1 favorite]

[IT IS INTENDED TO BE AN NBC TELEVISION SHOW FOR CHILDREN.]
posted by Smart Dalek

Almost eponysterical!
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 2:11 PM on May 30 [2 favorites]