Oh, I see what you mean. Well, maybe "clearing" the orbit includes capturing bodies in nearby orbits as satellites? Also maybe there's a size component to this: just because there's some dust in Earth's orbit doesn't mean it's not a planet, and maybe Mars' satellites are small enough not to "count"?
It doesn't even qualify for being a planet based on the new rules (keeping its orbit clear of other stellar objects) -- Phobos and Deimos are evidence for that. Jupiter has moons. Does that mean it hasn't cleared its orbit? What about the trojan asteroids? Wow, Jupiter's not a planet after all.
"Readings from counties that had already adopted daylight-saving time provided a control group that helped them to adjust for changes in weather from one year to the next."
There really is no good system. Sure there is. You just have to open the whole side of the plane and let everyone sit simultaneously, as shown in this photo.
It took hundreds of man-years for open source to reach the point that it's at today... You say that like it's a lot. I work at a facility with over 2000 people, so we do "hundreds of man-years" of work every month.
It doesn't take a year for the company to say "Thanks for the information. Unfortunately it may take us over a year to map that area. Thank you for your patience."
In contrast, a moderate sized asteroid has almost no gravity, but can be hollowed out, filled with air, and spun to provide the illusion of gravity relatively easily. Uh... What are you talking about? That seems totally infeasible to me. Did you just make that up, or can you site a serious proposal to do such a thing?
Asteroids seem much riskier without the benefit yet. The moon on the other hand is fairly stable and we could really work out the kinks in exportation. Thanks for weighing in with that informed opinion.
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Oh, I see what you mean. Well, maybe "clearing" the orbit includes capturing bodies in nearby orbits as satellites? Also maybe there's a size component to this: just because there's some dust in Earth's orbit doesn't mean it's not a planet, and maybe Mars' satellites are small enough not to "count"?
How stupid do you think these researchers are?
"Readings from counties that had already adopted daylight-saving time provided a control group that helped them to adjust for changes in weather from one year to the next."
If you were alive in the 15th century, I'm sure you'd be arguing against the printing press too.
Ok, sure, that wouldn't take a year either. :-)
It doesn't take a year for the company to say "Thanks for the information. Unfortunately it may take us over a year to map that area. Thank you for your patience."
This is one of the dumbest replies I have ever seen.
You can't pick up oil from Titan with a flyby.
Good point. Groklaw seems to like calling them SCOG.
I'd feel better with "SCO", rather than people watching trying to be extra clever by naming them by their ticker symbol.
They were delisted at the end of December.
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I stand corrected.
The "he" refers to the father.
The Onion got it right.
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Kinda like Seven-Minute Abs.
He's talking about a tiny CD that's only seven twelfths of an inch in diameter.
Fantastic response. (And awesome UID.)