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Re:The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harva... by sandworm101 on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:34PM (#25960670)
>> It's unlikely many types of exoplanets

Ya, but if people were allowed to look for hot jupiters in the 70s/80s they would have found the first exoplanet far sooner.

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Re:The Uncensored Guide to ‘Oumuamua, Aliens, and That Harva... by giantrobot on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:10PM (#25962587)
Allowed? No one was banned from looking for Hot Jupiters. They weren't an expected phenomenon. The instruments to detect them also didn't/barely exist in the 70s and 80s and they're some of the easiest exoplanets to detect.
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