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Originally Posted by Kwalish Kid
This is the spamming approach to scientific inference, then?
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Well, we prefer to call it brainstorming, but spam is a better decription of that last post
Iapetus is a good example of something turning out to be quite opposite of what was expected, based upon current theory. It will be interesting to see how these new observations are integrated into the big picture.
It is ok to assume the latest constraints upon gravity waves mean we need to look harder, and that dark matter is a reasonable answer to missbehaving gravity, and that the extra bright and unusual supernova we see locally are not well represented in the distant sample. It is also ok to look at all of this not-so subtle evidence and say, perhaps the big picture is stunningly different, what was thought to be black on white is white on black. How did such a terrestrial looking moon end up orbiting Saturn? Is it made out of dirt, or covered with a thin chocolate shell?
See if you can find a good way to connect all of these dots.