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April Fools on the Arxiv?
antipode
post Apr 1 2019, 04:30 AM
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Didn't really know where to put this at first, but it really should go here despite the title.

TESS Photometric Mapping of a Terrestrial Planet in the Habitable Zone: Detection of Clouds, Oceans, and Continents
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.12182.pdf

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post Apr 1 2019, 03:34 PM
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Looks like an april fools to me. "Sol D" being earth itself...

But i may have missed the point. ill admit i did not read entire thing.
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post Apr 1 2019, 04:43 PM
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QUOTE (Steve5304 @ Apr 1 2019, 07:34 AM) *
But i may have missed the point. ill admit i did not read entire thing.

I think this is an actual data analysis using stray light from the Earth as seen in the TESS data. More or less pointless, but real.

I'll admit I didn't read the whole thing in detail either. If it's a joke it seems to be very long but not that funny.


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- antipode   April Fools on the Arxiv?   Apr 1 2019, 04:30 AM
- - Explorer1   That's a lot of effort for an April fool's...   Apr 1 2019, 04:37 AM
- - Steve5304   Looks like an april fools to me. "Sol D...   Apr 1 2019, 03:34 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Steve5304 @ Apr 1 2019, 07:34 AM) ...   Apr 1 2019, 04:43 PM
- - JRehling   This reminds me of the (much briefer) joke that Da...   Apr 1 2019, 05:53 PM
- - Xerxes   I thought it was pretty funny, and also a neat sci...   Apr 1 2019, 05:59 PM
- - nprev   Very good! Gonna move this to Chit-Chat, thou...   Apr 2 2019, 04:16 AM
- - nprev   Testing here. A member said that they were unable ...   Apr 4 2019, 11:58 PM
|- - Ron Hobbs   QUOTE (nprev @ Apr 4 2019, 04:58 PM) Test...   Apr 5 2019, 12:24 AM
|- - PaulH51   QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ Apr 5 2019, 08:24 AM) ...   Apr 5 2019, 12:54 AM
- - nprev   Thank you, gentlemen. Think we're okay, then.   Apr 5 2019, 01:35 AM
- - dtolman   Hopefully third time is the charm getting this pos...   Apr 5 2019, 07:51 PM

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