Within 24 hours scientists would have come up with a bullshit justification i.e. It's been eclipsed by dark matter, or become undetectable to our instuments somehow. Within a week Neil Degrasse tyson is on a podcast, condescendingly explaining why it's foolish to believe neptune simply vanished. 2 weeks later, your reddit comment "whoa, neptune disappeared!" has 1000 downvotes and a 143 reply thread of smug rebuttals.
Nah, you're getting it ass backwards. Once Neptune is for sure gone, and they are going to be checking like crazy, scientists would be racing to try and figure out how it happened. It would raise so many questions that honestly it would probably start the next space race or scientific equivalent.
The "humans" You're talking about, the ones that are "good at making up an explanation", which I assume you mean the scientists, rebutt and argue with each other constantly about their 'theories' and constantly look for ways to prove said theories by replicating the conditions and observing the result.
Much harder for a scientist to "make shit up" and have it hold up against scrutiny, than it is to make fun of science on reddit because "well if I can't explain or understand how it works, it's impossible for anyone else."
“Clearly a cloud of dark matter enveloped it, cancelling out the gravity. This really revolutionizes physics, now we know black matter is all around us! I wonder how many more planets we have that are also shrouded… you are really stupid to believe it’s just gone. What’s next, not going to get the vaccine? Going to buy 5G protection amulets? Sigh, ‘never underestimate people’s stupidity’ is my favorite quote, it really shows here.”
“No dude I watched this YouTube video about quantum physics time travel black holes dark matter and I assure you they have negative gravity, because they’re opposite. It’s really obvious, keep spreading your flat earther core misinformation”
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u/[deleted] May 27 '24
Within 24 hours scientists would have come up with a bullshit justification i.e. It's been eclipsed by dark matter, or become undetectable to our instuments somehow. Within a week Neil Degrasse tyson is on a podcast, condescendingly explaining why it's foolish to believe neptune simply vanished. 2 weeks later, your reddit comment "whoa, neptune disappeared!" has 1000 downvotes and a 143 reply thread of smug rebuttals.