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The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna?
dsanfte writes "While NASA remains intentionally vague, promising only a news conference Monday, The Australian has the details. The new planet, dubbed Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, is 3 billion km further from the sun than Pluto, and is slightly smaller at 2000km in diameter. This discovery has apparently reignited the debate as to how big a solar object must be in order to qualify as a 'planet', but it is significant nonetheless."
Cue conspiracy theories, New Age freaks, Planet X believers and other idiots. Still, at least this discovery has the redeeming quality of completely fucking up astrology
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Thank god I am out of elementary school. Memorizing 9 planets was hard enough, but 10! They have got to be kidding.
The order of planets we all learned in 4th grade was out of date already because now Neptune is further away than Pluto. Now, I guess we're going to have to memorize another planent for the next quiz.
was right after all!
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
It's Planet X! It coming to Earth to cause a pole shift and kill most of us. I heard it on Coast to Coast, so it must be true.
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They should call it rupert.
i for one will refuse to call it sedna, instead i'll be calling it Rupert...
What about those of us who prefer base 9? You're messing up our already perfect "10." =)
I say we put up a huge sign next to the Sun that says "You must be at least this big (insert huge red line) to ride this ride."
I for one welcome our new Mi-Go masters!
It's even worse when I look at your Mom, because my field of vision has to be far out indeed to see her in her entirety.
"FAR" is a very vague thing in space.
I hear they're going to adopt the new distance measures 'hither' and 'yonder' so normal folks will have a better understanding, at least in galactic terms, of where things are.
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If people continue gaining weight, then there are millions of new objects about to get added to the astrological databases.
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"I wonder what is so important that NASA is going to wait until Monday. Maybe they will be unveiling something else at the same time?"
It's the monthly bug-report announcement. "A local root vulnerability has been found in the astrology community. NASA rates it as non-critical"
I feel insulted. I'm an atheist and I don't like these stupid god names polluting skies. What's the matter with these people? Can't humanity grow out of its infantile and get rid of this gods&belief nonsense?
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This will be handy for those short-sighted sysadmin types that name their servers after finite sets like planets.
Now they'll be able to buy up to 10 servers before re-thinking their naming strategy.
My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets! Shucks!
My Very Extravagant Mother Just Sent Us Nine Parrots, Sweetheart
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don't these astronomers read lovecraft?
should this not be called, "yuggoth"?
easy: pure gold.
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
not sufficient to account for all of Uranus' irregularity.
I'm trying to eat more fiber OK? I wish you would stop talking about this stuff in public!
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Wow. Upon reading your post, I was instantly reminded of the following exchange:
Joe: Hi, Bob. How's it going?
Bob: I DO NOT BEAT MY WIFE!
I think you might have a little bit of subconsious guilt about something there...
yada yada yada welcome our overlords blah blah blah sedna.
Did I forget anything from the ObSimpsons quote?
Jupiter: More beans, Mr. Saturn?
Saturn (waving its rings in Jupiter's direction): I'd say you had enough!
Karma: Frotzed (mostly due to the Frobozz Magic Karma Company)
By that logic, Anna Nicole Smith qualifies. ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Yes, it would be so much better to just reshape the incoming rock into a long needle so we have destruction confined to only two tiny little spots, including the spot on the opposite side of the Earth.