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Silver Falcon posted:Our moon is the fifth biggest moon in the solar system! Behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io. All of which, except for Titan, belong to Jupiter (Titan is a moon of Saturn). We're the only terrestrial planet in our solar system to have a moon as big as ours. Interestingly enough, one of Pluto's moons (Charon) is so big relative to it, that it is considered by many to be a binary system.
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DavidAlltheTime posted:The moon has a molten core. Holy poo poo. Shouldn't it have a magnetosphere as well?
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 18:28 |
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Looks like one, but crustal in nature. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field_of_the_Moon Also, crustal is my new favourite word.
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 18:44 |
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DavidAlltheTime posted:Looks like one, but crustal in nature. Cool...
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 22:30 |
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KillHour posted:All of which, except for Titan, belong to Jupiter (Titan is a moon of Saturn). We're the only terrestrial planet in our solar system to have a moon as big as ours. Interestingly enough, one of Pluto's moons (Charon) is so big relative to it, that it is considered by many to be a binary system. All two-body systems are binary
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# ? Sep 12, 2015 22:43 |
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DavidAlltheTime posted:The moon has a molten core. Molten outer core, certainly, but the actual core of the Moon is at too high pressure to be liquid.
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# ? Sep 13, 2015 08:17 |
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NASA says: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlbS-A01VDY
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Snapchat A Titty posted:All two-body systems are binary The usage being, in this case, that instead of Charon being Pluto's moon, they would both be considered dwarf planets circling each other. Neither is a moon of the other; they're equals. Also by several metrics, technically the Earth and Moon should be a binary system as well!
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Silver Falcon posted:The usage being, in this case, that instead of Charon being Pluto's moon, they would both be considered dwarf planets circling each other. Neither is a moon of the other; they're equals. Astronomy geek here, but the first is basically true, because the center point of mass for Pluto/Charon is between the two of them, the exact point is above each of their respective surfaces. The mass center of the Earth/Moon system is beneath the Earth's surface though. Pretty sure that's the biggest thing preventing the Earth and Moon from being classified as a binary system.
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Rorac posted:Astronomy geek here, but the first is basically true, because the center point of mass for Pluto/Charon is between the two of them, the exact point is above each of their respective surfaces. The mass center of the Earth/Moon system is beneath the Earth's surface though. Pretty sure that's the biggest thing preventing the Earth and Moon from being classified as a binary system. Yeah, this is what I was getting at. Pluto and Charon both orbit an empty point in space between them. The Moon orbits the Earth.
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# ? Sep 13, 2015 22:22 |
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FELD1 posted:I just learned last week that Patrick Swayze has been dead for like 6 years. It's okay most people missed that happening. It got overshadowed by Kanye interrupting TSwift at the MTV music awards.
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# ? Sep 13, 2015 22:52 |
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Ann B. Davis died in June last year. I met her in the San Antonio residence where she lived with a Bishop and his wife while traveling with my church's youth group. She was nice.
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KillHour posted:Yeah, this is what I was getting at. Pluto and Charon both orbit an empty point in space between them. The Moon orbits the Earth. The same is true of the Sun and Jupiter - they both orbit (with respect to each other) a point above the surface of the sun. Things I just realized. Thomas Sangster, who plays Jojen Reed on Game of Thrones, also played the drummer kid in Love Actually. He looks exactly the same, so it shouldn't have been surprising, but I think I just didn't realize he was old enough to have played both roles. On the same note, Pharrell Williams is 42. I always thought he was closer to 30 (and closer to 20 when he collaborated on Drop it Like It's Hot). Dude just doesn't age.
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My wife just found out that the song "I Can't Feel My Face" is not, as I jokingly told her, about a guy with a crappy dentist he keeps going to because she's cute. Apparently she told her coworkers that's what it was about, they believed her and told their friends and got to the point of getting into heated arguments defending my interpretation. This has been going on for over a month without my knowledge.
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Not My Leg posted:The same is true of the Sun and Jupiter - they both orbit (with respect to each other) a point above the surface of the sun. My personal favourite for this is Steve Buscemi in Surf Ninjas. He was 32.
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# ? Sep 15, 2015 20:10 |
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I had an impressive moment where I only got the joke I had made a few months after when someone explained it to me. I named a character Shay DeGray and it took someone else pointing it out for me to notice this is a pun.
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spectralent posted:I had an impressive moment where I only got the joke I had made a few months after when someone explained it to me. I named a character Shay DeGray and it took someone else pointing it out for me to notice this is a pun. I don't get it.
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Dr_Amazing posted:I don't get it. what if there were 50 Shay DeGrays
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Mister Macys posted:My personal favourite for this is Steve Buscemi in Surf Ninjas. Do you mean Rob Schneider?
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# ? Sep 16, 2015 19:37 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szcboZhB6Yc
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# ? Sep 16, 2015 19:44 |
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Rolo posted:Do you mean Rob Schneider? No, you're thinking of Bill Murray.
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Dr_Amazing posted:I don't get it. Shay DeGray = Shade of Grey.
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# ? Sep 16, 2015 23:24 |
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Speaking of actors in movies, the dude who plays Nux in the new Mad Max movie, Nicholas Hoult? He was the main kid in About A Boy. That certainly puts a new spin on that movie.
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Rolo posted:Do you mean Rob Schneider? How did I gently caress that up!?!?
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# ? Sep 17, 2015 02:27 |
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Assorted colors. Assorted chocolates. Assorted lengths of wire. A-Sorted. Not-Sorted. It was always just a distinct word in my head until yesterday when this sprung unbidden to my mind. My first thought was Holy poo poo. My second thought was, whelp I'm gonna have to post in that thread.
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# ? Sep 19, 2015 14:25 |
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I've long known what the expression "hindsight is 20/20" means, but I recently finally connected it to the actual Visual Acuity values 20/20 as used in optics and poo poo. I have awful eyes and know some stuff about glasses because I've worn them since I was seven and was at least aware that 20/20 is considered good eyesight in one of the VA systems, but I somehow hadn't connected these two things. In my defence, English isn't my first language and we use a different system here in Finland (LogMAR) a cyborg mug has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Trent posted:Assorted colors. Looks like the thread title is paying off! The a in assorted comes from the latin prefix "ad" which indicates direction or addition to something rather than the greek prefix "an" which means not. The "sort" part comes from the noun version of the word where it means type or kind. So historically, the word assorted was used to describe the opposite of what you wrote - a collection of things sorted into types. If you Google <word> etymology, you'll find a lot more detail. Word origins that you figure out on your own are almost 100% of the time completely wrong.
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# ? Sep 19, 2015 15:00 |
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Maybe if you're retarded.
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# ? Sep 19, 2015 21:38 |
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I wasn't watching what thread the video came from and expected John Cena E: the Arthur theme song is written and performed by Bob Marley's kids Sponge Baathist has a new favorite as of 23:33 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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The WWE wrestler Yokozuna is Samoan. I always thought he was Hawaiian-Japanese. Thanks Bombcast.
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# ? Sep 23, 2015 21:13 |
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Frostwerks posted:Maybe if you're retarded. So goon word origins are almost 100% wrong then.
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pussy riot police posted:So goon word origins are almost 100% wrong then. Read the previous threads. It's adorable.
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 00:03 |
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I have.
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 00:55 |
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The word "Etymology" comes from the latin word for "poo poo I just made up 30 seconds ago."
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 01:41 |
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KillHour posted:The word "Etymology" comes from the latin word for "poo poo I just made up 30 seconds ago." Gullible isn't in the dictionary. Really.
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 02:10 |
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I just realized I was pronouncing it "Entymology" the whole time. And I've been following this thread for a looong while.
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 03:47 |
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Shifty Nipples posted:Gullible isn't in the dictionary. Really. Neither is sarcasm.
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 03:48 |
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For the record there are at least seven or eight different etymological origins behind a- prefixes in English, so if your remarkable breakthrough is related to that prefix you've got an even better-than-usual chance of being wrong as gently caress Also entomology is a completely different word that already means something else
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# ? Sep 24, 2015 16:01 |
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I just figured out that entomology is not the study of ants, but of insects in general. Then I figured out that myrmecology is the study of ants, not fungus. Because it's mycology which is the study of fungus, not the study of looking at small things, which is microscopy.
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KillHour posted:Neither is sarcasm. I'm gonna need sources on that as I don't think I believe you.
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