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What keeps Pluto's ocean from freezing?
CNN ^
| May 20, 2019
| Ashley Strickland
Posted on 05/20/2019 5:57:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode
You Freepers are being very disrespectful. This is from CNN
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posted on
05/20/2019 6:56:28 PM PDT
by
HChampagne
(Cruz supporter but I will support and vote for Trump.)
To: EdnaMode
I thought Pluto was de-planetized?
To: EdnaMode
Well let’s see...Water freezes at 32 degrees F...And what is the temperature on Pluto???
Maybe Pluto has a Sun that Nasa hasn’t discovered yet...
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:02:19 PM PDT
by
Iscool
To: EdnaMode
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:10:31 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: EdnaMode
I know this one! I know this one!
The answer is.....
Natural gas from Uranus.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:11:22 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: dayglored
If not something that was just cast, that may be mostly Pu-240. These are commonly used in RTG (radioisotope thermal generators) used in deep space probes.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:15:16 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
To: gov_bean_ counter
To: blueunicorn6
Damnit.
Second answer.
OK
My second guess is Tibetan Salt Candles.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:20:52 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: EdnaMode
It’s probably not freezing because Pluto repeatedly gains and sheds atmosphere as it comes nearer to the Sun than Neptune and then swings back out to the Kuiper Belt on its 248 year orbit. Or, could some of that 70% rock be mercury?
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:24:59 PM PDT
by
blueplum
("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: dayglored
That's plutonium 238. It's not fissionable. It's used for RTGs because its alpha decay makes a big enough piece very hot.
Plutonium 239 is the fissionable isotope.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:33:16 PM PDT
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: dayglored
Here is an enhanced photo of Pluto.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:39:40 PM PDT
by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
To: Campion
>
That's plutonium 238. It's not fissionable. It's used for RTGs because its alpha decay makes a big enough piece very hot. Plutonium 239 is the fissionable isotope. Ah, so. Thanks!
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:46:39 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: DoodleBob
>
Here is an enhanced photo of Pluto. I always have wondered about the equator line on the Death Star... makes it look like if you twisted the two halves apart, you'd find it full of Silly Putty.
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:48:19 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: EdnaMode
Pluto's cockles are warming.
-PJ
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posted on
05/20/2019 7:54:09 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: DoodleBob
“That’s no moon. It’s a space station!”
/ObiWan>
CC
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posted on
05/20/2019 10:36:54 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV)
To: dayglored
If only 0.1” and unshielded, when you manage to get with in 100 yards and after losing all you hair, bleeding out of every orifice, you will far over dead.
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posted on
05/21/2019 1:34:17 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Deaf Smith
The way it is written it makes one think of water. Heck - it wouldn’t surprise me if the CNN science reporter thought it is made of water.
But yeah - methane is what I was thinking of. Except the density of methane hydrates is greater than liquid methane. At least on earth.
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posted on
05/21/2019 2:16:37 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(!)
To: fieldmarshaldj; KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
05/22/2019 12:29:11 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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