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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Once global warming is finished, you just wait.

Canada's going to be laughing at the rest of the world in their tropical paradise. All those beaches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Did Google, didn't understand.

It's cool my friend, I didn't mean to bother you. You go out and have a good time from here on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't that nearly true of the Earth and the Moon as well?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm not! I was really wondering like the physics of how an object is able to clear objects of similar size from its orbit.

I could understand objects of smaller size, but I just don't get how it does objects of the same size or similar size.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I'm willing to continue.

When were these tests instituted? Was it the IAU?

Is the last test referencing a specific size?

Does Pluto have anything else in it's orbit? The other objects of similar size... What would cause a "planet" to clear it vs. a non-planet?

For example, suddenly there is another Saturn-sized object in Saturn's orbit. What guarantee is there that Saturn would clear it? Might it not clear Saturn??? After all, it's of similar size. Does this mean Saturn is not a planet?

Real questions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

What's the difference? Enlighten me!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

He was also key to demoting Pluto from It's status as a planet, even though Pluto was

  • predicted and then searched for
  • found orbiting where they expected it
  • and then found to have a moon
  • and then found to have an atmosphere

What the Lowell Observatory says...

But hey, NdGT didn't like it. So we all changed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

He's overly interested in kissing himself in a mirror. Nuff said.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nah, it's Firefox now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (40 children)

Tell Michael Moore to join Neil deGrasse Tyson in the "We don't want to hear from you anymore" line.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I use Mega. It's the cloud service that minds it's own business.

 

Tell me why I'm wrong, and if not, repudiate this maudlin, caricatured, two-dimensional, simplistic, cliched, sappy, melodramatic, piece of cinematic legend.

 

Only useful against technology really, and that seems so unrealistic. That's where it lost me, the convenience of a creature that can EM machines. So unbelievable.

Plus Kick-Ass saving the world.

 

I understand that our local galaxy group is considered "gravitationally bound" and therefore exempt from the expansion from each other ((, but we don't seem to have other galaxies collected into their own "local groups" of gravitationally bound clusters, so are we saying we're somehow unique? Is there a trick of perception taking place?)) <---edit:this is wrong

I found this quote in the Wikipedia article on the Expansion of the universe.

While objects cannot move faster than light, this limitation applies only with respect to local reference frames and does not limit the recession rates of cosmologically distant objects.

It seems to me that if we can perceive at cosmological distance something that cannot exist, perhaps we are falsely observing an expanding universe. Maybe everything IS gravitationally bound and we're just seeing expansion because... Relativity?

 

When I found out she used to teach English at Gainesville high School, I asked her if she had ever taught a student named Tom Petty.

"Oh I remember Tommy Petty," she said. "He would never write a paper, but he would write songs. I would let him play one in front of the class instead of writing a paper. He would play the most awful music."

PS. I loved Tom Petty. He seemed to have a career that satisfied his every wish. He played with all his heroes, was actual friends with icons, and was a true treasure.

 

His pants fit like a glove!

 

As of today many and perhaps even most of those products are still not on the shelves. It's unusual to see this kind of delay, and I wonder if anyone knows...

Have there been any leaks or investigative reporting on the source of the salmonella intrusion, and why it is proving so difficult for Quaker oats to get a handle on?

 
 

Yeah, that's unnecessary. Let's start doing humans without that.

 

Literally a shitty million dollar idea.

Edit: Cue the bidet users storm.

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