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Could there be another planet behind the sun?
Phys.Org ^ | 02-24-2015 | by Fraser Cain, Universe Today

Posted on 02/24/2015 11:08:07 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Bryanw92
We’re in the dark ages now!

Probably because we discovered 'dark matter'.

41 posted on 02/24/2015 11:54:41 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2
#DARKLIVES MATTER
42 posted on 02/24/2015 11:57:50 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Gamecock
No Bizarro World?

I often think that we're living there.

43 posted on 02/24/2015 11:58:46 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
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To: discostu

>>Neither is opinion. You stated as fact that Gor is vilified and 50 Shades is mainstream. Neither is true, the fact is both are considered crap and neither is mainstream.

50 Shades is in movie theatres right now. It occupies an end cap at Target. Your opinion that it is not “mainstream” is wrong. You don’t like 50 Shades and neither do I. That’s why I said that we are in the dark ages now. But pretending that it doesn’t exist as a real part of our sick culture is like refusing to call terrorists Muslims.

And yes, Gor has always been crap. But, it was entertaining crap when I was young and it is vilified today (Google it).


44 posted on 02/24/2015 11:58:49 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: SolidRedState

Nope. See post 35 for the diagram. The article gets it right. The point directly opposite the earth would be the L3 Langrange point. That point is unstable in the direction tangetial to the orbit. That means that a planet at that point would stay put if the earth, the sun and that planet were the only bodies in the solar system. They are not. Peturbations from other bodies would lead to the planet moving just a bit ahead of the L3 point or just a bit behind. Once that occurs, the earth’s and sun’s gravity would tend to exacerbate the shift away from L3. That’s what it means when we say a Langrange point is unstable. For the stable ones, such as L4 or L5, peterbations tend to be counteracted by the earth’s and sun’s gravity, so the object stays put. Of course there cannot be planets at those points; we would have observed them by now.


45 posted on 02/24/2015 11:59:26 AM PST by stremba
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“Doppleganger’.


46 posted on 02/24/2015 12:00:59 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: semaj

Astronomers noted a gaseous discharge from the core.


47 posted on 02/24/2015 12:01:35 PM PST by steve8714 (Traditional Catholics want Latin Mass. Traditional Muslims want your head.)
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To: Bryanw92

And is protested by both the BDSM community and Christian right. Lots of stuff hits the movie theaters without being mainstream. Even a movie that grosses $129 million is actually only watched by a very small number of people (easy math is divide by 10, $129 million means about 13 million people, or about 4% of the population, hardly mainstream).

Gor should be vilified. It started as crap and turned into violent pornographic crap. Really all the same criticisms lodged against it are lodged against 50 Shades also. Both are criticized for presenting abusive behavior as good. The only real difference between them is point of view, one is from the rapist guy, the other is from the willing to be raped girl. And the complaints reflect that, google them both. They are both equally vilified.


48 posted on 02/24/2015 12:07:17 PM PST by discostu (The albatross begins with its vengeance A terrible curse a thirst has begun)
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To: stremba

Kill joy!

:)


49 posted on 02/24/2015 12:11:30 PM PST by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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To: Red Badger
There can't be another planet on the other side of the sun, or the Muslim astronomers of the Middle Ages would have discovered it.

Actually, if a planet was there, I think its presence would have been deduced from its gravitational pull on Venus and Mars.

50 posted on 02/24/2015 12:12:19 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: stremba
Correct me if I'm wrong, but even if Earth & its "twin" were the only planets in the System, their orbits would have to be ABSOLUTE mirrors of each other —not the same path— for them to always be in Opposition (and mutually invisible)… And the more elliptical the orbit(s), the greater the angular separation from the Sun would be at any one epoch. 
51 posted on 02/24/2015 12:23:32 PM PST by mikrofon (APOD Bump)
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To: Red Badger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera_vs._Guiron";

Gamera visits a planet on the opposite side of the Sun.

Watch the MST3K version...it’s more coherent.


52 posted on 02/24/2015 12:27:29 PM PST by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: Red Badger

No No No!!! If there was another planet that would me that there would be two Obamas and two such egos would surely cause the solar system to collapse in on itself and create a black hole. OOOPS! Th think I just made a racist comment!


53 posted on 02/24/2015 12:42:02 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Everything is opposite! The Obama on the ‘Other’ Earth would be a Raging Right Winger!...............


54 posted on 02/24/2015 12:52:43 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Verginius Rufus

Paul McCartney and Wings would still be cool.............

55 posted on 02/24/2015 12:54:24 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
"Everything is opposite! The Obama on the ‘Other’ Earth would be a Raging Right Winger!..............."

And I guess the other Ted Cruz would be wanting him locked up as a terrorist!
56 posted on 02/24/2015 12:54:42 PM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

He would be escorting illegals across the Rio Grande.................


57 posted on 02/24/2015 12:56:04 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: MrB

Everyone has seen Uranus, dude....


58 posted on 02/24/2015 1:17:30 PM PST by Nabber
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To: Red Badger
the forces of gravity conspire to make this hidden planet idea completely impossible.

That's unfortunate, I always wished that planet was inhabited by nubile maidens intent on invading earth and making men their sex slaves........Oh well....

59 posted on 02/24/2015 1:21:01 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: Red Badger

La Grange? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppbdf-qtGU&list=RDVppbdf-qtGU#t=24


60 posted on 02/24/2015 1:27:42 PM PST by nomad
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