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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.
was right after all!
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
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They should call it rupert.
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."
"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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"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.
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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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.