Anton Petrov on a Rogue Planet

I enjoyed this thread in the comments. 

For more on origins of life see Nick Lane on Cellular Metabolism and the Krebs Cycle and Anton Petrov on Research in Prions and Theories of Abiogenesis. 

The paper it refers to is this one: A free-floating-planet microlensing event caused by a Saturn-mass object by Subo Dong, Zexuan Wu, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Andrzej Udalski, Przemek Mroz, Krzysztof A. Rybicki, Simon T. Hodgkin, Lukasz Wyrzykowski, Laurent Eyer, Thomas Bensby, Ping Chen, Sharon X. Wang, Andrew Gould, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Cheongho Han, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Dong-Jin Kim, Chung-Uk Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Radoslaw Poleski, Jan Skowron, Michal K. Szymanski, Igor Soszynski, Pawel Pietrukowicz, Szymon Kozlowski, Dorota M. Skowron, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Mariusz Gromadzki, Milena Ratajczak, Patryk Iwanek, Marcin Wrona, Mateusz J. Mroz, Guy Rixon, Diana L. Harrison and Elme Breedt and also Jupiter Mass Binary Objects in the Trapezium Cluster by Samuel G Pearson and Mark J McCaughrean. 

Here's one about "Jupiter-mass Binary Objects" from 2024:

See this comment on probability and Formation of Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects through photoerosion of fragmenting cores by Jessica L. Diamond and Richard J. Parker. More links in the video description. 

See The Action Lab - Branched Flow. I'm sure the Astrophysicists claim to take all these things into account, but they would have a heck of a job convincing me of that. The chain of inference is way beyond my own mathematical abilities to even follow, let alone to critique. Now I'm sure some people think I should just take their word for it,... Is that science? See Part II of DemistifySci Podcast talking with Daniel Whiteson and my comment on the sociological component in the evolution of scientific thought. The same economic argument applies to telescopes like JWST, Vera C. Rubin, SKA and GRAVITY+. But nobody wants to fund a decent communications system? Why? 

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