What do you have to do for it now? RICE?
exactly. and it could have 1 to 4 more days to keep swelling. wheee. and my right hand. not good. i can type - but writting is way more difficult
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
beth b - Aug 21, 2006 12:25:17 pm PDT #3790 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Jesse - Aug 21, 2006 12:25:27 pm PDT #3791 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
First they take away the brontosaurus. Now it's Pluto. What next? Are they going to repeal gravity? The scientists must be stopped!
This is totally my deal with this. I believe that The Scientists have their reasons, but all I know is the popular names for things and I LIKE THEM.
I am having crazy deja vu right now, FYI.
sarameg - Aug 21, 2006 12:26:07 pm PDT #3792 of 10001
I didn't mean it as a slam, just a goofy explanation. I honestly can't gauge how much is taught about him outside "discovered Pluto" because my exposure was from a completely different angle. My childhood was pretty much immersed in astronomy.
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2006 12:29:36 pm PDT #3793 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
How does the random definition create a new picture of what we already know?
The Kuiper belt is the new discovery along and some of these are just as big and made of the same stuff (ice) as Pluto. Right now there is no standard definition of Planet, so a definition is being decided so that the new objects can be classified. Unless you decide that planet has no meaning other than 'the 9 objects that we've always called planets', then the picture is going to change no matter what. The discussion is really whether 'planet' is going to mean a few large objects, or dozens or hundreds of small ones.
bon bon - Aug 21, 2006 12:30:06 pm PDT #3794 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I didn't mean it as a slam, just a goofy explanation.
I wasn't offended. But here's the thing-- why would scientists be more interested in a legacy than with progress?
Consuela - Aug 21, 2006 12:30:07 pm PDT #3795 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse - Aug 21, 2006 12:34:15 pm PDT #3796 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooh, those are cute. Did you get a custom suit made? (This is why I want to go to Hong Kong.)
Consuela - Aug 21, 2006 12:36:12 pm PDT #3797 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I did, and so did my sister! Mine is a tropical-weight wool, in a very fine black/blue herringbone print. Skirt, jacket, slacks. Cost about $400 American, and they did it in about 36 hours. I was very impressed.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2006 12:38:54 pm PDT #3798 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ooooh. I am now super-jealous.
sarameg - Aug 21, 2006 12:38:58 pm PDT #3799 of 10001
why would scientists be more interested in a legacy than with progress?
I think this is kinda tied to Pluto as an object of public opinion. I mean, the whole naming of it was part of public discourse (the IAU has since gotten picky and made themselves the final arbiter these days.) I almost feel like they are being nutso over this issue because they don't want to piss off a public sort of raised on this whole public-sentimentally-owned planet. Which is goofy, scientists are so not immune from goofy.