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The Protagonist posted:really in the context of say like curiosity spotting an isopod fossil or there being some obviously artificial feature on a distant dwarf planet, what real onus is there to conceal that? someone field this. does anyone seriously think nasa or any other organization, upon finding irrefutable evidence of the greatest scientific discovery ever, would conceal it for any longer than it took them to confirm it to a certainty? you know, rather than scream it from the mountaintops?
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The Protagonist posted:someone field this. does anyone seriously think nasa or any other organization, upon finding irrefutable evidence of the greatest scientific discovery ever, would conceal it for any longer than it took them to confirm it to a certainty? you know, rather than scream it from the mountaintops? even if the organization decided to conceal it, there is no way the individual scientists would.
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Jul 6, 2015 23:29
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thats no moon...... 
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euphronius posted:Crazy that thing only has 8 gigs of memory. Not really. It was built in the early 2000s.
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Jul 6, 2015 23:33
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Xaris posted:thats no moon...... Well I mean they already confirmed it doesn't have any rings so
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Jul 6, 2015 23:35
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sinking belle posted:Well I mean they already confirmed it doesn't have any rings so lol
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Jul 8, 2015 18:16
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So is Pluto a planet again?
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Jul 8, 2015 18:19
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Not really. It was built in the early 2000s. They also need well-known hardware that can be rad-hardened at an acceptable price. That's why the memory is so small and the Mongoose processor runs at 12MHz afaik.
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Fumble posted:So is Pluto a planet again? Kinda deps is a dwarf a person? Askin for a fren
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Jul 8, 2015 18:40
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Fumble posted:So is Pluto a planet again? they had to stop calling it a planet, they started finding all kinds of gravitationally rounded things in our solar system and didn't want school children to have to memorize 30 "planets"
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Jul 8, 2015 18:47
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GETTING SO CLOSE YES YES YES
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Jul 8, 2015 19:08
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What precipitated the whole argument was the discovery of Eris, which is bigger than Pluto.
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Jul 8, 2015 19:26
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wow a contact lense in a mud puddle
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Jul 8, 2015 19:55
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Jul 8, 2015 19:57
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pluto looks a fuckin chump i could beat it up
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Jul 8, 2015 19:59
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lookit those lil dimples
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Jul 8, 2015 21:49
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pluto looks like it will have a similar surface to triton, which would make sense
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Jul 9, 2015 00:23
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Skeleton Ape posted:What precipitated the whole argument was the discovery of Eris, which is bigger than Pluto. Mike Brown, discoverer of Eris, named it Eris because she was the goddess of chaos and discord, and he realized that the discovery was going to cause a bunch of chaos in the astronomy community.
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Jul 9, 2015 01:46
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Listen to Loscil's 'Triton' it's amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SjLqdnv2Zc You're welcome.
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genesplicer posted:Mike Brown, discoverer of Eris, named it Eris because she was the goddess of chaos and discord, and he realized that the discovery was going to cause a bunch of chaos in the astronomy community. I love the name of his book: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming.
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Skeleton Ape posted:What precipitated the whole argument was the discovery of Eris, which is bigger than Pluto. It was thought to be bigger. But after repeated measurements, and New Horizons firming up Pluto's size--which was difficult to pin down because of its atmosphere, Pluto appears to be larger than Eris after all. Eris still has a higher mass though. Crazy to think that if we'd known Eris was smaller, even if only slightly, Pluto may still be considered a planet today.
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It's likely Pluto and Eris are the largest objects in the Kuiper Belt. We haven't found more large objects in that region since 2013. Michael Brown says the show's over. But the Oort Cloud could have many, still. The chances of something larger than Pluto and Eris being out there are pretty high. The chances of something larger than Earth out there are decent. And that would pretty much be the coolest loving thing that's ever happened if we found something like that.
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Jul 9, 2015 18:04
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eris isnt even in the kuiper belt
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Jul 9, 2015 18:59
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Xaris posted:thats no moon...... Lol, he's been waiting to post this since 2006. Edit: you should goatse all the planets and moons. In a few years you'll have a new kuiper belt object to do. EvilGenius fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jul 9, 2015 |
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Jul 9, 2015 21:27
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That Robot posted:They also need well-known hardware that can be rad-hardened at an acceptable price. That's why the memory is so small and the Mongoose processor runs at 12MHz afaik. Can't they just wack a Think Pad on it, like ISS?
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Jul 9, 2015 21:33
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EvilGenius posted:Can't they just wack a Think Pad on it, like ISS? I believe those Thinkpads are hardened somewhat beyond standard consumer laptops. They have to pass radiation testing, off-gas testing, thermal testing, fire and fire suppression. I love my boxy, black space laptop.
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Parallax Scroll posted:eris isnt even in the kuiper belt well, eris is a scattered disk object, though it seems kind of arbitrary where the cutoff is because most sdos overlap with the kbos quote:The MPC also makes a clear distinction between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc; separating those objects in stable orbits (the Kuiper belt) from those in scattered orbits (the scattered disc and the centaurs).[10] However, the difference between the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc is not clearcut, and many astronomers see the scattered disc not as a separate population but as an outward region of the Kuiper belt. Another term used is "scattered Kuiper-belt object" (or SKBO) for bodies of the scattered disc.[23]
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Jul 9, 2015 21:40
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Your mumma's so fat, she wears a kuiper belt.
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Jul 9, 2015 22:57
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spoiler: it's going to be round and borign people itt literally excited about a space orb
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Jul 9, 2015 22:58
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lol if you even look at a planet
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Jul 9, 2015 23:03
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BeanBandit posted:I believe those Thinkpads are hardened somewhat beyond standard consumer laptops. They have to pass radiation testing, off-gas testing, thermal testing, fire and fire suppression. Ramsus posted:spoiler: it's going to be round and borign
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I'd be real excited if it was shooting fireballs or a giant version of your avatar lived in a cave there
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Jul 9, 2015 23:05
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planets or as i call them, space orbs, have nothing to do with me
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NASA's budget could buy every American man, woman and child Five Guys six times a year.
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wow that's thirty guys 
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Germstore posted:NASA's budget could buy every American man, woman and child Five Guys six times a year. americans dont really need more fast food, i think the money was better spent on NASA
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Jul 9, 2015 23:15
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would you believe they put five guys on the moon ~five guys on the moooon~
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Matt Damon is growing potatoes on Mars so he can open a Five Guys.
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