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16 Seconds Of Pluto Hides A Surprise (Video)
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| 8-19-2015
| Astro Bob
Posted on 08/19/2015 11:44:33 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Nice video
To: Citizen Zed
Maybe it doesn’t get replenished and Pluto is a lot younger than institutional science believes it to be.
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:46:35 AM PDT
by
Nep Nep
To: Nep Nep
or maybe deep space has an atmosphere!
okay, never mind...
forget I said that
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:47:36 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Cruz is for real, 100%)
To: Citizen Zed
A lot of reaction mass there for a nuclear-powered rocket to make a return trip.
Of course, it’s density is probably pretty low. But enough to refract the Sun’s rays around the planet.
Oh dear. I called it a “planet.” The language police will be after me now.
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:50:17 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: SunkenCiv
To: Steely Tom
During one of the briefings I heard one of the lead scientists running the mission call it a planet and then say, “You heard me, it’s a planet”. You’re in good company
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:52:59 AM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: Textide
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:55:08 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Steely Tom
"Oh dear. I called it a planet. The language police will be after me now."Dat's racis'
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:55:43 AM PDT
by
jonascord
(It's sarcasm unless otherwise noted... This time, it's not.)
To: Textide
Yeah, You try to keep an orbit the volume of Pluto's cleaned up all neat and tidy...
(The planet is not named Hercules after all)
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:56:04 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: Textide
During one of the briefings I heard one of the lead scientists running the mission call it a planet and then say, You heard me, its a planet. I guess it's not "settled science," then.
I mean, since a scientist said it.
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:56:33 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: jonascord
Yeah, I’m hangin’ my head in shame.
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:57:33 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
08/19/2015 11:59:24 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
08/19/2015 12:17:46 PM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: Citizen Zed
But hold on! If you use the pause button, youll see something amazing... Damn, I was kind of hoping for a "TRUMP 2016" sign lit up in neon lights - just to see the reaction of the libtards and the GOPe. :>)
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posted on
08/19/2015 12:34:49 PM PDT
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Nep Nep
What, Pluto has only gone around the Sun 40 times?
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posted on
08/19/2015 12:47:00 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: Textide
Yea, Show those freaking Sizists a thing or two!
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posted on
08/19/2015 1:19:36 PM PDT
by
Shady
(We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
To: ctdonath2
Maybe. Not like anyone was here to witness it 40 Pluto-years ago.
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posted on
08/19/2015 2:24:27 PM PDT
by
Nep Nep
To: colorado tanker; brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; steelyourfaith; ...
Thanks colorado tanker, extra to APoD.
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posted on
08/19/2015 7:26:58 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
To: Nep Nep
Not hard to figure out what a stable orbiting body was doing 41 revolutions ago, even if you weren’t around.
Otherwise you have to concede that the universe may have come into existence twenty minutes ago - all you have are some vague memories that may have been created then too.
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posted on
08/20/2015 5:10:46 AM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(The world map will be quite different come 20 January 2017.)
To: ctdonath2
The Pluto system is anything but stable. It’s an extremely chaotic system.
Pluto could be a former moon of Neptune... or it could be a Kuiper Belt object perturbed from a more distant orbit... or it could be a captured interstellar object. There are many many possibilities other than “as it is now, so it always was”. Planetary formation theories are extremely raw, wild guesses, and new data constantly forces changes to them rather than confirming existing hypotheses.
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posted on
08/20/2015 5:17:01 AM PDT
by
Nep Nep
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