With the discovery over the past few decades of the Oort Cloud and Kupier Belt, it seems obvious that there are tens, if not hundreds/thousands of Pluto-sized objects out there. Obviously, we're not going to name all 10,000 of these rocks "planets." But then again, Pluto has a special place in history as the last "great" planet discovery on the level of Uranus and Neptune, so purists wouldn't want to ruin that by demoting it.
My solution? Define "Planet" as something bigger than Pluto, maybe with Mercury as the smallest, or whatever. But keep Pluto as a planet (as an exception ot the rule) for historical purposes. But, you may be thinking, "that's so stupid! Why give something a name if that name is now invalid?" The answer? We do it all the time. Here's an example...
Take a look at ANY diet softdrink/diet product with Nutrasweet. It warns you that this product contains "Phenylalanine" and should not be taken by "Pheylketonurics." Take a look at that word. It's called "Phenyl-keton-uria" (PKU) because years ago, people with this disease were diagnosed when "Phenylketones" were detected in their Urine. However, no one diagnoses PKU via a urine test anymore, they use another method. So should we change the name of the disease? Of course not. But due to historical significance, we keep it. Unlike the Indian/Native American designation, "Planet Pluto" should not offend anyone:-) Therefore, I say we define a planet however they want, but keep Pluto for historical significance. I knew med school would start paying off soon:-)
I went to Cornell ('01) and one thing that was VERY popular were entire bootleg movies on the network neighborhoods (~650 megs each). Those would get passed around so quickly or simply viewed over the connection. My friend even got busted for having like 40 gigs of movies he was sharing with Cornell kids and FTP.
However, I don't see Cornell's point since we were CHARGED for our internet usage, and this charge was something that was comparable, if not higher, than simply getting off the dorm LAN and splitting a cable modem with your roommate(s). Then again, if Cornell only makes it a nominal fee (more of a symbolic fine), I can see them having a claim. It'll be interesting to see how it develops.
an early American rocket that met with disaster on the launch pad but didn't slow the space program
You're talking about Apollo 1, which burned on the launchpad. Apollo 2 thru 7 were then made completely robotic. You are right in that it did not slow the untimate moon-by-1970 deadline, but it did slow the manned space program a lot.
I haven't played Bingo since camp (M&M's bingo - where we'd all lose cuz we ate all of our chips) - but I'm seriously curious, how exactly does Bingo have any skill?
I dunno about light user, but in 1992 the LCII was either 4/40 or 4/80 configuration. The 486 I got in 95 came in either 250 or 520 megs. The PII I got (RIGHT when P2's came out) for college was 6.3 gigs in 1997. I remember having to re-install king's quest 5 and swapping it with Sim City every time I wanted to play either on the Mac!:-)
1992: (when I owned my 40 megabyte Mac LCII 4/40) Holy crap! My new PC is gonna have 240 megabytes!!! That's SIX of my hard drives!!! I'll never run out of space again!
1996: Holy crap!!! You can now make your own cd's!!! 650 megabytes... that's like THREE of my hard drives on every disk!I'll never run out of space again!
1998: My new Computer... 6.3 Gigs!!! Seriously, I'm just gonna install EVERY GAME I EVER OWNED AND EVER WILL OWN, plus, I'll do "FULL INSTALL" versions! No more "light install" for me... EVER! I'll never run out of space again!
2003: Holy crap!!! You can now make your own blue-laser dvd's!!! 24 gigabytes... that's like THREE of my hard drives on every disk! I'll never run out of space again!
Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft."
This is coming from my astronomy professor at Cornell (who is a major NASA player, directing the Rover missions, etc). He says that Pioneer, while amazingly sucessful in terms of science, was never veyr sucessful to the public because it's camera were pretty crappy. They produced pictures that were not much better than the best ground-based telescopes of the day. Voyager capitalized on this and was given high-def cameras. Pictures are among the less important tools on those spacecraft (again, according to a prof), where the radiation scopes, temperature, etc are much more important. For a good example of this, look at the first probe to make it to Mars - Mariner 9 (9, right?). It finally reached Mars after years of failures, only to arrive during a global dust storm! The public interest was quickly wanned.
Actually, I went to Cornell - a school that yes, is "overall" not as "good" as Yale, but we don't let that define us... we just keep on truckin' until we get to the Hot Truck.
I'm no physics major, but in space, since there's no friction, shouldn't P10's 82k mph speed continue at 82k until something physically stops it (inertia anyone?). Obviously I'm wrong here, so can someone steer me in the right direction?
FYI - the "Sun from beyond Neptune" was entirely conceived by Carl Sagan. He wanted this to show Humanity's place in the cosmos (why we quabble over such small problems, etc) and that's why he called his "sequel" to Cosmos Pale Blue Dot.
One could imagine that we will see Pioneer 10 again. Within a century, I'm sure (or should I say 'I hope') we'll have craft capable of going much faster and further.
Yes, but should we try and recapture Pioneer/Voyager spacecraft? They may have finished their Earth-Solar-System use, but they still have one more secondary (maybe even tertiary) goal - their plaques for interstellar communication.
To capture them and place them in the Smithsonian would cancel it's final purpose.
(was in fact considered for joining the Ivy League in the 60s
I have seen this claim by at least a dozen schools (Tufts, Brandeis, NYU, Michigan, to name a few). These are completely untrue, and I always wonder: WHY DO THEY CARE??? I have seen (from 3/4 of those mentioned) web links that claim this to be true, but never from anything more than a professor's heresay or a student newspaper. MIT, Cal Tech and Duke were never considered for the Ivy, and they are way better than Penn, Columbia and arguably even the "big three" Harvard Priceton and Yale.
I have heard this rumor mostly from Tutfts, and I always thought it was sad. Tufts is a fine school and rather than being pissed off they don't have a stupid title they should brag about the qualities that they DO have.
Lisa Simpson found that it was a pheromone that caused people to beat up nerds! (This effect, of course, could easily be neutralized by spraying said bully with vinegar).
I don't know if you know about this game called Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It has a kiddy title, and a kiddy appearance, but ANYONE who plays it know how much it rules! AND... as a bonus, there are tons of hidden NES games in it! Punch-Out, Pinball, Ice Climber, etc. Others are RUMORED to be there too (Zelda, SMB, etc).
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I don't know if you know about this game called Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It has a kiddy title, and a kiddy appearance, but ANYONE who plays it know how much it rules! AND... as a bonus, there are tons of hidden NES games in it! Punch-Out, Pinball, Ice Climber, etc. Others are RUMORED to be there too (Zelda, SMB, etc).
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I may be wrong, but isn't Zelda one of the rumored hidden games in Gamecube's Animal Crossing?
I admit it. I'm officially converted. And... I officially apologize.
I've been playign Metroid Prime on the Gamecube for a few weeks now. I thought a First-Person-Perspective Metroid was just the stupidest idea EVER. However, 1/3 of the way throught the game, it is AMAZING how much this game feels like a Metroid game. Anyone else feel this way? It's such a brilliant and fun game and one of the best games I have seen or played in years. How they made this FPS have the same feel as the side-scrollers of the Metroid universe is amazing.
You're being nitpicky. Anyway, in your reply, you're proving my point. You're saying that if they had the intro different and added the dragon baby, it would have been complete. You said "It simply cannot be done" - but like any slashdotter, you won't be willing to admit maybe you were mistaken.
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With the discovery over the past few decades of the Oort Cloud and Kupier Belt, it seems obvious that there are tens, if not hundreds/thousands of Pluto-sized objects out there. Obviously, we're not going to name all 10,000 of these rocks "planets." But then again, Pluto has a special place in history as the last "great" planet discovery on the level of Uranus and Neptune, so purists wouldn't want to ruin that by demoting it.
:-) Therefore, I say we define a planet however they want, but keep Pluto for historical significance. I knew med school would start paying off soon :-)
My solution? Define "Planet" as something bigger than Pluto, maybe with Mercury as the smallest, or whatever. But keep Pluto as a planet (as an exception ot the rule) for historical purposes. But, you may be thinking, "that's so stupid! Why give something a name if that name is now invalid?" The answer? We do it all the time. Here's an example...
Take a look at ANY diet softdrink/diet product with Nutrasweet. It warns you that this product contains "Phenylalanine" and should not be taken by "Pheylketonurics." Take a look at that word. It's called "Phenyl-keton-uria" (PKU) because years ago, people with this disease were diagnosed when "Phenylketones" were detected in their Urine. However, no one diagnoses PKU via a urine test anymore, they use another method. So should we change the name of the disease? Of course not. But due to historical significance, we keep it. Unlike the Indian/Native American designation, "Planet Pluto" should not offend anyone
I went to Cornell ('01) and one thing that was VERY popular were entire bootleg movies on the network neighborhoods (~650 megs each). Those would get passed around so quickly or simply viewed over the connection. My friend even got busted for having like 40 gigs of movies he was sharing with Cornell kids and FTP.
However, I don't see Cornell's point since we were CHARGED for our internet usage, and this charge was something that was comparable, if not higher, than simply getting off the dorm LAN and splitting a cable modem with your roommate(s). Then again, if Cornell only makes it a nominal fee (more of a symbolic fine), I can see them having a claim. It'll be interesting to see how it develops.
an early American rocket that met with disaster on the launch pad but didn't slow the space program
You're talking about Apollo 1, which burned on the launchpad. Apollo 2 thru 7 were then made completely robotic. You are right in that it did not slow the untimate moon-by-1970 deadline, but it did slow the manned space program a lot.
I haven't played Bingo since camp (M&M's bingo - where we'd all lose cuz we ate all of our chips) - but I'm seriously curious, how exactly does Bingo have any skill?
I dunno about light user, but in 1992 the LCII was either 4/40 or 4/80 configuration. The 486 I got in 95 came in either 250 or 520 megs. The PII I got (RIGHT when P2's came out) for college was 6.3 gigs in 1997. I remember having to re-install king's quest 5 and swapping it with Sim City every time I wanted to play either on the Mac! :-)
1992: (when I owned my 40 megabyte Mac LCII 4/40) Holy crap! My new PC is gonna have 240 megabytes!!! That's SIX of my hard drives!!! I'll never run out of space again!
1996: Holy crap!!! You can now make your own cd's!!! 650 megabytes... that's like THREE of my hard drives on every disk!I'll never run out of space again!
1998: My new Computer... 6.3 Gigs!!! Seriously, I'm just gonna install EVERY GAME I EVER OWNED AND EVER WILL OWN, plus, I'll do "FULL INSTALL" versions! No more "light install" for me... EVER! I'll never run out of space again!
2003: Holy crap!!! You can now make your own blue-laser dvd's!!! 24 gigabytes... that's like THREE of my hard drives on every disk! I'll never run out of space again!
Wonder if in 12 years (when the probe is supposed to reach Pluto) the public will be as fascinated with the pictures coming back as much as with the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft."
This is coming from my astronomy professor at Cornell (who is a major NASA player, directing the Rover missions, etc). He says that Pioneer, while amazingly sucessful in terms of science, was never veyr sucessful to the public because it's camera were pretty crappy. They produced pictures that were not much better than the best ground-based telescopes of the day. Voyager capitalized on this and was given high-def cameras.
Pictures are among the less important tools on those spacecraft (again, according to a prof), where the radiation scopes, temperature, etc are much more important.
For a good example of this, look at the first probe to make it to Mars - Mariner 9 (9, right?). It finally reached Mars after years of failures, only to arrive during a global dust storm! The public interest was quickly wanned.
Now the public can have what it has been craving for YEARS... a sequel to the original movie :-)
(btw, I AM just joking)
We could send out a new plaque much faster from the point of discovery
ood point - if we did that, sort of a relay-race where wach leg is stronger, then I agree that'd be a good idea.
Actually, I went to Cornell - a school that yes, is "overall" not as "good" as Yale, but we don't let that define us... we just keep on truckin' until we get to the Hot Truck.
I'm no physics major, but in space, since there's no friction, shouldn't P10's 82k mph speed continue at 82k until something physically stops it (inertia anyone?). Obviously I'm wrong here, so can someone steer me in the right direction?
FYI - the "Sun from beyond Neptune" was entirely conceived by Carl Sagan. He wanted this to show Humanity's place in the cosmos (why we quabble over such small problems, etc) and that's why he called his "sequel" to Cosmos Pale Blue Dot.
One could imagine that we will see Pioneer 10 again. Within a century, I'm sure (or should I say 'I hope') we'll have craft capable of going much faster and further.
Yes, but should we try and recapture Pioneer/Voyager spacecraft? They may have finished their Earth-Solar-System use, but they still have one more secondary (maybe even tertiary) goal - their plaques for interstellar communication.
To capture them and place them in the Smithsonian would cancel it's final purpose.
(was in fact considered for joining the Ivy League in the 60s
I have seen this claim by at least a dozen schools (Tufts, Brandeis, NYU, Michigan, to name a few). These are completely untrue, and I always wonder: WHY DO THEY CARE??? I have seen (from 3/4 of those mentioned) web links that claim this to be true, but never from anything more than a professor's heresay or a student newspaper. MIT, Cal Tech and Duke were never considered for the Ivy, and they are way better than Penn, Columbia and arguably even the "big three" Harvard Priceton and Yale.
I have heard this rumor mostly from Tutfts, and I always thought it was sad. Tufts is a fine school and rather than being pissed off they don't have a stupid title they should brag about the qualities that they DO have.
I agree. Turn Left at Orion is PERFECT for the absolute beginner. Straight-up english (think of it as astronomy-for-dummies but better)
Lisa Simpson found that it was a pheromone that caused people to beat up nerds! (This effect, of course, could easily be neutralized by spraying said bully with vinegar).
Tomorrow Slashdot will have an article stating that Zelda II is not as good as Zelda I.
I don't know if you know about this game called Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It has a kiddy title, and a kiddy appearance, but ANYONE who plays it know how much it rules! AND... as a bonus, there are tons of hidden NES games in it! Punch-Out, Pinball, Ice Climber, etc. Others are RUMORED to be there too (Zelda, SMB, etc).
I don't know if you know about this game called Animal Crossing for the Gamecube. It has a kiddy title, and a kiddy appearance, but ANYONE who plays it know how much it rules! AND... as a bonus, there are tons of hidden NES games in it! Punch-Out, Pinball, Ice Climber, etc. Others are RUMORED to be there too (Zelda, SMB, etc).
I may be wrong, but isn't Zelda one of the rumored hidden games in Gamecube's Animal Crossing?
I admit it. I'm officially converted. And... I officially apologize.
I've been playign Metroid Prime on the Gamecube for a few weeks now. I thought a First-Person-Perspective Metroid was just the stupidest idea EVER. However, 1/3 of the way throught the game, it is AMAZING how much this game feels like a Metroid game. Anyone else feel this way? It's such a brilliant and fun game and one of the best games I have seen or played in years. How they made this FPS have the same feel as the side-scrollers of the Metroid universe is amazing.
Holy crap! A /.er admitting when (s)he was wrong! Kudos to you waytoomuchcoffee for being, or at least lacting like, an adult.
You're being nitpicky. Anyway, in your reply, you're proving my point. You're saying that if they had the intro different and added the dragon baby, it would have been complete. You said "It simply cannot be done" - but like any slashdotter, you won't be willing to admit maybe you were mistaken.
sorry grammar police... Sorcerer's
You simply can NOT make 1:1 copy of a book for the silver screen
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Yeah you can, it's called Harry Potter and the Sorceror's/Philosopher's Stone!