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Then I guess the morons with careers in astrophysics are investigating it for no reason then.

Beyond your wildly unfounded and I daresay naive assumption that the objects have had no effect on the solar system, perhaps they need to hear YOUR postulations.

If only they were reading all of your grayed out comments, I see your dismissive and arrogant condescending remarks are leading to such fruitful insights and conversations. /s

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New things are interesting, and astrophysicists like investigating interesting things. If these brown dwarfs posed the slightest threat to us they'd be even more interesting than they already are.

Sure, I guess it's just irksome to assume that they aren't dangerous PRIOR to investigation. I mean, you wouldn't assume a random plant in the jungle is safe to eat, right?

There's a lot of safe objects in space. There's a lot of safe plants in the jungle. Still, truth must be uncovered day by day.

That's all I was meaning to convey.

This somehow brings up the fact that we say "innocent until proven guilty" but we don't really treat people like that, see: arraignment amounts/remand, police interrogation, the fact that you both have to know your rights and have the money to at least get decent representation for most things.

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