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tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 7:49:31 am PDT #4038 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Yay! We have a new planet! In our solar system!

Maybe....

[link]

"The Minor Planet mailing list is buzzing with the discovery by an amateur astronomer of a 17th magnitude object 51 astronomical units from the Sun, tentatively designated 2003 EL61. For those not versed in astronomical lingo, this is an object several times brighter than Pluto even though it is 25% farther out from the Sun (the orbit vizualised by JPL). This means that barring a strangely reflective surface, this object is larger than Pluto, possibly Mars-sized! The debate whether Pluto is a planet is likely to get rekindled by this discovery."

I think they should name it... Bob.

eta: BBC article: [link]

Volans - Jul 29, 2005 7:52:51 am PDT #4039 of 10002
move out and draw fire

for assault, not for grand theft semi

Assault by grand theft shit-semi sounds like a good plan.

Katie M - Jul 29, 2005 7:53:59 am PDT #4040 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Look, I already had to give up the brontosaurus. I'm not giving up Pluto, and that's final.

Kathy A - Jul 29, 2005 7:55:53 am PDT #4041 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

We can't give up Pluto, not with its moon with the ultra-cool name Charon!

Gudanov - Jul 29, 2005 7:56:40 am PDT #4042 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

Pluto's only a planet because it was found too soon. Today it would probably be classified as a Kupier Belt object.

DXMachina - Jul 29, 2005 7:58:00 am PDT #4043 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Timing is everything if you want to hit it big.

tommyrot - Jul 29, 2005 8:02:42 am PDT #4044 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What happened to the brontosaurus?

Gudanov - Jul 29, 2005 8:06:51 am PDT #4045 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping

I think the fossils that were classified as Brontosaurus were actually from more than one type of dinosaur, mostly from an Apatosaurus.

DXMachina - Jul 29, 2005 8:09:09 am PDT #4046 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

What happened to the brontosaurus?

Fox decided they wanted to go with dancing dinosaurs.

Ginger - Jul 29, 2005 8:11:57 am PDT #4047 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Bones that they named Apatosaurus were found earlier than bones they named Brotosaurus, and they later figured out it was the same animal. They also figured out they had attached the wrong skull. So what we used to call Brotosaurus is now called Apatosaurus, plus it no longer has the tiny head made famous by animated dinosaurs.

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