I went to your link and saw this mug.
She might be a nice lady but perhaps she got her start on radio.
Posted on 07/26/2006 6:53:09 PM PDT by MNJohnnie
Astronomers at the University of Tasmania have found that the solar system's smallest planet is not getting colder as first thought and it probably does not have rings.
Dr John Greenhill has collected observations from last month's event when Pluto passed in front of a bright star, making it easier to study.
French scientists have shared the measurements they took in Tasmania that night, which indicate that the planet is unlikely to have rings.
Dr Greenhill says the results are surprising because they show Pluto is warming up.
"It looks as though the atmosphere has not changed from 2002, which is pretty surprising because we expected the atmosphere would freeze out as the planet moved further away from the Sun," he said.
"But so far, if anything, the atmosphere has gotten even denser."
"But so far, if anything, the atmosphere has gotten even denser."I guess stuff that gets colder doesn't get denser over on Pluto. Or maybe this guy just has his head up his butt.
Denser? So, the University of Tasmania finally bought a pair of binoculars? Us Mainlanders take anything the Taswegians say with a huge lump of salt. They don't think like us and they talk funny.
I can prove it. I read the article three times and I'm still none the wiser.
"Bush's Fault" is old.
New response should be "This wouldn't be happening if John Kerry were president".
:-P
There's nothing worse than Klingons on Uranus... with Hummers.
;-)
How could Pluto be warming when the evil, polluting, white, capitalist, industrialists, haven't even sent any rovers up there yet?
The thing the scientists are really trying not to comment on....if Pluto and Mars are showing signs of warming up, the common denominator is the sun! If the sun is warming or increasing its out-put, then this would affect Earth as well...
Look for the first "Our Sun is going SuperNova" panic warnings any day now!(sarcasm on)
Don't forget...we have more accurate and sensitive detection devices then we did 30 years ago and longer...We can detect things we never could before...therefore allowing astronomical increases in our ability to scare our-selves silly!
That may be true, but many of the differences seen across the solar system have little to do with greater accuracy and are based on differences in data and observations from instruments that have undergone little or no substantial changes in decades.
My point was that it is not the earth and our "man made" causes that is creating "global warming". Our very sun and its solar system are going through a cyclical change, and this cycle, this energy cycle is reflected in changes seen from the sun and all the way out to Pluto.
(1) "Warming" does not mean anything in the solar system is getting closer to the sun. This little bit about Pluto is just another minor blip in the general scientific admission that the sun has been heading into a more energetic cycle for some time now.
(2) Thus nothing about this report deals with either an expanding or contracting universe.
(3)Therefore no one was alarmed, so your feint towards the alarmists missed its target - there were none.
I went to your link and saw this mug.
She might be a nice lady but perhaps she got her start on radio.
Pluto warming up......don't tell Goofy.....
Rats! ..I was so hoping to slip this one in.
Oh well .. next time I'll follow with a < /sarcasm >
You have Freepmail from me.
Representative Jackson-Lee (D-TX) just called in attempting to find the flag that Neil Armdong planted in 1969 on Pluto.
This is another one of those things that would not have happened if John effing Kerry had been elected president.
Roughly six hours. Pluto is like 40 AU from the sun. (One AU is the distance from Earth to Sun.) It takes sunlight just about 500 seconds to reach Earth. 500 x ~40 = ~20,000 seconds = ~6 hours.
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