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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...""
You mean like when the police storm into our house, shoot, your dog, steal your weed, grope your wife, and then ruin your life with encarceration and blacklist you with a criminal record?
Or am I thinking of something else?
Death Penalty to Cops!
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K-BYE
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.
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.
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I think alot of frozen food companies like Stouffer's, Birdseye, and the Hot Pocket corporation could benefit from this discovery, once space travel is made efficient and affordable. Pluto would make a fantastic storage and/or distribution center, and help keep operating costs down and the profits up. It's akin to the Sno-Cone industry's "secret move" back in 1984, which found the company secretly tapping into the Anarctic ice shelf and producing award-winning cones (much to the amazement of an otherwise befuddled ice cream industry). That led to the great frozen confection war of 1985 and while bloody, it ushered in a new era of frozen confectionary nirvana, what with the addition of candy pieces, cookies, and other treats added directly into the ice cream many of us and our families enjoy today.