Posted on 07/12/2016 8:03:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Pluto isn't quite as lonely as scientists had thought.
Astronomers have discovered another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy objects beyond Neptune. But this newfound world, dubbed 2015 RR245, is much more distant than Pluto, orbiting the sun once every 700 Earth years, scientists said. (Pluto completes one lap around the sun every 248 Earth years.)
"The icy worlds beyond Neptune trace how the giant planets formed and then moved out from the sun," discovery team member Michele Bannister, of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, said in a statement. "They let us piece together the history of our solar system."
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The exact size of 2015 RR245 is not yet known, but the researchers think it's about 435 miles (700 kilometers) wide. Pluto is the largest resident of the Kuiper Belt, with a diameter of 1,474 miles (2,371 km).
The research team first spotted 2015 RR245 in February of this year, while poring over images that the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in Hawaii took in September 2015 as part of the ongoing Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS).
"There it was on the screen — this dot of light moving so slowly that it had to be at least twice as far as Neptune from the sun," Bannister said.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Afternoon.
Hillary has that problem too...
Heh, good one. We were talking in my prayer group this morning - well, actually it was pretty much a talk group, since we hadn’t seen each other all summer - about our society’s focus on events and activities to “make memories.” Our consensus was, What’s the point? We’re not going to remember anyway, even if we have pictures. “Who are those people? What were we doing?”
The continuing saaaaga of ‘Face.
The fire extinguishers are to be replaced once a year and we are overdue for that by a month. In the meantime, I’ve been getting an electric shock each time I reach across the extinguisher to turn on the kitchen light, so I called the office about it.
I got up this morning and found a fire extinguisher hanging on my gate. I looked at the tag and it was two months older than the one I have, and I couldn’t hang it because it needs a different bracket.
So I took it to the office and told them it was older, and the guy looks at the tag and sees a hole punched by the bottom date, even though the top date (2015) was punched in the date column. He was looking at the date punch, which was the 30th. The month punch was July.
This is older than the one I have. Thomas, the hired help in the office, said, “No,no. This is good until 2018!” No, Thomas, they all have to be replaced this year and we are a month overdue.
He steps into the office to tell the boss (Casey) about the static charge and the extinguisher, and Casey, being the know-it-all manager than he claims to be, said, “I’ll contact my supervisor.” His supervisor is going to tell him that by law, all extinguishers in public buildings (including housing) must be recharged once a year.
The normal procedure is to just swap the old ones out for the ones that have been recharged. But it’s always done in August. And this new manager (coming straight from the “farm” of being head of maintenance in some apartment complex) calls the main housing office “corporate.” As in, “I have to talk to Corporate about that.”
So I have two fire extinguishers that may or may not be usable if the need arises. *sigh* I want to give Casey a good talking to and have him take some Time Out in the corner.
I thought hers was a reliable information leak.
Put one of the two on a pile of papers on his desk, pull out your lighter, and ask him, “Are you SURE this one is ready for use?”
Ah, apartment living. I wonder how old our extinguisher in the pantry is. I’ve never thought to check.
Now that I did, there’s nothing to say, but I know it’s been there quite a long while without being touched. I remember when my mother set the kitchen on fire in Rhode Island while broiling fish. Melted a hole in the linoleum, too.
What we get seems to be what could be considered a reliable information leak, such as information sourced from Asange. That is a self-inflicted security breach on her part.
Hillary’s nasty memory leak is brought on by the process of being put under oath. Or by merely being asked a tough question..
From extant videos it seems that when this memory leak occurs it brings about total system seizure requiring her to be whisked away to be rebooted...
I’m feeling increasingly ditzy, myself. Please don’t elect me President!
It has been resolved, and YIPEE! the head of maintenance is scheduling delivery and replacement of all the fire extinguishers next week. Except mine, of course! Mine was the first to be replaced! YAY, for me and my big mouth!
And just as I was getting ready to close up shop and head to somewhere soft and warm, Zeke called to being me a key. It seems someone (outgoing resident council member(s)?) has been going in and helping themselves to food and whatever, so Zeke, Carlos (maintenance) and I are the only ones with a new key. I am relieved.
So another day falls into the “done been DONE!” category, and I can shut this down. My eyes burn and my bones hurt, so it’s a good time to quit while I’m ahead.
All y’all have a good night and I’ll see you in the morning. Tomorrow is the day I have to go to the pain clinic, so I’m not a happy driver.
I hope you have a good night. We’ve decided against going to the gym because DP is on the phone with Cisco about some work snafu, so I’ll just sit here and drink until I serve up supper and then wash the babies and sit around and hug them. Frank is very squudgy.
But then anyone who can herd a gaggle of offsprings such as yours could certainly manage the nation better than the latest leadership example...
And we are having advanced-grass-substitute-growth-stimulant falling from the sky. Radar indicates that the thunderous part isn hitting further south in Joisey..
Well, I do have a management degree and considerable background in law, taxes, and economics ... as well as speaking Spanish ... but I’d need someone to keep me from wandering off and forgetting everything. Tom the Son, for example ...
Sorry about the rain. We’ve got nothing. Just hot.
You just need better marketing. Arkansas had nothing better than what you've got, and they advertise both Hot Springs and Hope.
Heh, that’s a clever.
Arkansas has the headquarters of Walmart, too.
So much for your Research Triangle. The biggest economic powerhouse in Arkansas or even the Nation supplies goods for the home.
In the future, the home will be where “work” is performed, and where “education” takes place.
Who will be the supplier for those needs?
Interesting question. If the future includes the Global Economic Collapse that takes us all back to subsistence, we’ll all wish we’d taken notes when “Folkways” was running on PBS. Iirc, you know something about sanitary facilities, but I’ll be sending boys out with a shovel to dig a hole.
On the other hand, if we’re not at total societal collapse, the movement for work and education at home seems to be happening in smaller enterprises than Walmart, and the more we kick out government, the more that will work.
The smart money will be on games-makers, (and no tip of the hat to The Hunger Games), who will be able to compress instruction and manufacturing cycles into levels of game mastery.
The only thing missing from game conversion to reality is getting paid for your expertise. I’m not enamored of games, though many are; I’m more interested in reading, and occasionally writing, books.
But others do like games, and often invest a lot into having the proper equipment. Almost no industrial activity or process could defiantly avoid being made into a game process for its training and production.
Think of the malleability of your training process and production schedules. You’re making cameras, garden tools, wheelbarrows, bicycles, cakes, pies, — well, you name it.
It can be converted to an industrial process controlled by a game structure. There are no age limits; there are no wage limits. You want your country, your economic empire to make things? Trade goods, energy goods, war materiel, — you name it.
All you have to do is set up the game, and then connect the controllers to the factory.
Google and Uber want to create self-driving cars. Their vision is too limited. Why not a self-driving city?
Put people to work. Let them have fun. Let them make money. Bribe them with the stuff they make. That’s not a new idea; it was Henry Ford’s genius.
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Education — well, what do you want? You want a medical education? You want to become a surgeon, a microsurgeon, a genetic technician? What about any of that is any different from learning to play a game?
The problem with the way things are done now is that people who desire power strive for it by trading favors with each other. We need to replace them with people who desire to build empires by motivating people and entertaining them. Some people fit this skill-set, but they haven’t found their niche yet.
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