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Pluto is Much Colder Than Expected
IZ Reloaded writes "Any would be travellers to Pluto should bring extra winter gear. The new temperature on Pluto according to scientists is 43 degrees Kelvin. That's 10 degrees Kelvin colder than expected. From CNN: "Astronomers think Pluto's colder than expected temperature reading involves interactions between nitrogen ice on the planet's surface and the nitrogen gas that makes up its atmosphere...Pluto is a dynamic example of what we might call an anti-greenhouse effect...""
Over the jagged peaks of Thok they sweep,
Heedless of all the cries I make,
And down the nether pits to that foul lake
Where the puffed shoggoths splash in doubtful sleep
At forty-three [not fifty-three] Kelvin.
-- Sonnet XX, "Night Gaunts" in Fungi from Yuggoth, 1929-30
the main difference between an oral and rectal thermometer is the taste if you mix them up
First time they used an oral thermometer, the second time a rectal one.
Actually rectal temperatures are higher than oral temperatures.
read cryptonomicon a couple times have we? if it's nota dummy or a simple copy paste job, it's a wwii military cipher utilized from a very long novel. the first two are the keys. but it's still stupid.
Congratulations! You are formally invited to attend a meeting of the International League of Pedants! Please arrive at precisely 1927 (notice the lack of a colon; it's military time) at Elk's Lodge 52 on Weinburger Rd. Any later, and the cucumber sandwiches with be mushy, and no pedant likes mushy cucumber sandwiches.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
I guess there is no need for a water cooled XBox 360 there...
There's a uranus joke in there somewhere, I just don't care to find it.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl