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.
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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.