Surprised Scientists Google

Dec 17, 2007 … Scientists were surprised when the Cassini spacecraft discovered plumes of water vapour coming from icy Enceladus in 2005. …

www.newscientist.com/…/dn13092-is-an-ocean-the-source-of-saturn-moons-plumes.html

Oct 31, 2003 … Scientists were surprised when the first big solar flare occurred at about 1100 GMT on Tuesday. Not only had it erupted three years after …
www.newscientist.com/…/dn4333-unique-double-solar-punch-strikes-earth.html

So when NASA’s NEAR space probe landed on the surface of the asteroid Eros in 2001,scientists were surprised to find no sign of a magnetic field. …
www.newscientist.com/article/mg17423421.900-its-a-swipe.html

May 31, 2006 … Scientists were surprised to find that Enceladus’s south pole is 15°C warmer than the rest of the moon’s surface (Image: NASA/JPL/GSFC) …
www.newscientist.com/…/1-did-saturns-volcanic-moon-roll-with-it.html

Jan 20, 2004 … Scientists were surprised and said it suggests the soil is not dust-like, as they had expected, but somehow sticks together. …
www.space.com/missionlaunches/spirit_minerals_040120.html

Jan 8, 2009 … Jets of silicon and iron were spotted in the inner disk, but scientists were surprised to see their broad, disk-like structure, …
www.space.com/…/090108-3d-supernova.html -

Feb 18, 2005 … Still, scientists were surprised that a magnetar so far away could alter the ionosphere. “That it can reach out and tap us on the shoulder …
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/bright_flash_050218.html

Mar 10, 2004 … For example, scientists were surprised by close-up images of comet Wild 2 relayed early January from NASA’s Stardust spacecraft. …
www.space.com/…/technology/neo_defense_040310.html

Unlike old people, who can get a bit shaky on their feet, rapidly rotating stars called pulsars should not wobble as they age. So British scientists were …
www.space.com/scienceastronomy/…/wobbly_pulsar_000802.html

Jan 26, 2009 … Scientists were surprised to pick up any X-ray signals at all since the flare was about 20 times weaker than the lowest limit the C1XS …
www.space.com/…/090126-lunar-xrays-solar-flare.html

and on and on and so forth.

I actually started to build a library of these ridiculous findings, but they happen every day, so it was too much.

Scientists are “surprised” because their theories are wrong.  If their theories were right, there wouldn’t be “surprises.”  Of course, there are only two acceptable theories – General and Special relativity.  Thus, the surprises will continue unabated until the entire universe is described as a massive inter-dimensional hologram.

oh wait, that’s already happened.

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