July 30, 2005

• Even if it were 100 percent reflective, it would be larger than Pluto. It can't be more than 100 percent reflective. OR CAN IT? Anyway, I like how they nicknamed it Xena. Was that show really that popular five year ago? I thought it was longer ago than that.
• Oh please please please name it Eris. It's a perfect name. 44 degrees off the eliptic. Orbit so elliptical that it varies between 3 and 9 billion miles. This planet is embodies Discord, and should be named after Her.
• They should never have named Pluto a planet.
• If it was 23° off the ecliptic and shaped like an apple, then Eris would be an even better choice of name.
• Isn't this planet ten part two or three I forget how many big rocks they've found in the last couple of years
• Your totally right Chy. And you know how to make a tiny circle.
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• They should never have named Pluto a planet Oh, you moon-men and your endless prejudice against the planets! Every time you comment, it's all "the moon this, the moon that, blah blah blah". Well if the moon is so fucking great, why don't you go back there - eh? I'll tell you why: the cheese is better here. Suck it up, lunar loser!
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• The Moon rulz #1
• "That blows my mind," said Harold Levison of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the discovery. "Getting something up that high is very hard." Heh.
• Don't they do this like every five years? what happens to all the other planet X's they discover? Are they in storage somewhere?
• There's supposed to be an almighty kaboom!
• Here ya go, Wolof. Earth-Shattering Kaboom I remember seeing a link to a live webcam at an observatory. Somebody hung a volleyball within camera range with a big 'X' marked on it with electrical tape: voila, Planet X. There was a similar one involving Dino and a webcam at a live volcano. Can anybody hook me up with that link? I *love* those sort of pranks.
• Dino at White Island, NZ (The webcam shows nighttime at the moment, though.)
• YAY!! I was beginning to think I'd imagined it!
• Thank you, SK! small minds, etc.
• Wait . . is this all in Space Kitty's imagination too? Man this is getting to be work! *dances, sings*
• What will the astrologer charlatans have to say now? *Exhibits typical Scorpio cynicism*
• Guess it's time to start feeding some ideas to SK so she can being imagining better reality scenarios... how about world peace, end of hunger, the entire republican party turning into cans of spam and other funny/useful things?
• Could I use my spam filter on them then?
• I'm working on it. Believe me, I'm working on it. *imagines world peace* NOT WHIRLED PEAS, WISE GUY.
• Planet X Rocks!
• Hey Sludger -- Holdsworth is on the next Planet X, due second quarter 2006.
• Pluto's status as planet is on the chopping block
• Should we start taking bets? I'm voting for a more-inclusive definition of a planet to include

  1) anything that isn't undergoing nuclear fusion 2) anything with a gravitational pull that is stonger than its material integrity (is spherical) 3) anything orbiting a star (or other body undergoing nuclear fusion) regardless of orbit

  Pluto will likely get planet status, else there will be some sub-category for minor planets (which would probably include Mercury).
• oooo, a freaky science chick! Show your stats! Show your stats! Show your stats!
• Now come on Pete. Let's not move so fast. Sure, when Pluto first showed up he was rather abrupt, to say the least. And I know he offended a lot of the other planets, especially the planets that had been identified many years before his arrival. But, we must try and be accomodating and polite to new planets, and welcome them aboard. I mean, yeah, I know, Pluto comments started appearing in all kinds of older planet threads, often for no reason. And several of Pluto's first planet posts made me cringe. But, hey, he'd just beed discovered, and it takes time to find one's rhythm within the solar system. I say we all just take a deep breath and give Pluto one more chance.
• 159/3.85/50m IQ/GPA/score on Plegmund's gender-brain test
• bow chicka bow!
• The Onion Asks: Pluto Not A Planet? Scientists from around the world are convening this week to decide whether or not Pluto fits the definition of a planet. What do you think?

  Dale Kenner,
  Telephone-System Installer
  "On the bright side, that's five fewer minutes I have to spend helping my son on his solar-system mobile."
  
  Brenda Dobbs,
  Unemployed
  "I just hope I'm not around when the news finally hits Pluto in 4,000 light years."
   
  Dan Praeger,
  Shampooer
  "That's cool. I hear Seyfert II has an opening."
  

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