Moon: A large mass following a main body. Sometimes in the light, sometimes "where the sun don't shine", it's often pockmarked and always with an enormous trench. Although apparently lifeless, they all possess some "biologically active" areas when searched deeply enough. Some from the outer areas tend to be larger. This is generally esthetically preferred to tiny ones, but not too large as they become gravitationally unstable, unable to support their own weight.
I believe that is the definition. For a two body system to be a "double body" instead of a planet and a moon, the mutual center of gravity must be outside both. Since the point that the earth revolves around the moon is actually just below the earth's surface, it doesn't count as a double body.
Pluto/Charon, however, I believe is a double planet in that sense.
1. 5% of star -- Assuming you mean, "be bigger than 5% of the parent star", I doubt even Jupiter would qualify, mass, volume, or even linear radius. If you mean "no more than 5%", then Jupiter would qualify, but why call it not a planet if it were more than 5% the size of a star (as long as it wasn't in fusion itself)?
3. Volcanic activity -- What about Mars, which used to have it, but doesn't currently? What's so special about volcanic activity anyway? Insofar as it's present, it merely represents the natural processes of a large planet. Insofar as it isn't, the planet has cooled, or doesn't have enough radioactive stuff to keep the core hot. In either case, it's an imperfect mapping onto the concept of "sufficiently large body".
You just pulled these three ideas out of your ass, didn't you?
I can't even watch things like the old PBS version of Lathe of Heaven, or many typical sci fi stories, without sighing and thinking about how all their need and want in the future is the result of government intervention in the economy, stopping greedy capitalists from supplying the greedy wants of people. Soylent Green, anyone?
Too many people? Resources running out? Be like Isaac
Famous science writer Isaac Asimov expressed the bewilderment of a person who at least faced up to this intellectual predicament, as Ehrlich et. al. do not. Asimov read about the resources bet and then wrote:
Naturally, I was all on the side of the pessimist and judge my surprise when it turned out he [Erlich] had lost the bet; that the prices of the metals had indeed fallen; that grain was cheaper; that oil...was cheaper; and so on. I was thunderstruck. Was it possible, I thought, that something that seemed so obvious to me - that a steadily rising population is deadly - can be wrong?
Yes, it could be. I am frequently wrong.
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Actually, the retirement age for full Social Security benefits is now 67, and has been for several years.
The bad part is that the SS "surplus", well, it's not stuffed in a mattress. The government bought government bonds with it. When it comes time to start drawing on that, they'll have to pull it out of the current population by increased borrowing. The only difference is that it will cost more (paying % to buyers of the bonds, i.e. the government itself) is added to the simple borrowing they would have done otherwise had they not built up a surplus.
It's all a massive fraud, with the "logical" thing actually worse than simply borrowing money to pay SS when the baby boomers retire.
> the notion that "physical" pain could be > banished from most people's lives would have > seemed no less bizarre
Worse than that. As Isaac Asimov pointed out, painkillers were considered unholy, sinful. After all, The Bibuhl states that "in pain shall ye give birth." Any woman using painkillers during birth was thwarting the will of God.
Then some queen gave birth with painkillers, and no clergy dared claim that anymore.
He also points out the use of lightning rods -- how dare you thwart the bolts thrown by God's Will? Soon, only church steeples were the only buildings without them, and typically being the tallest buildings in town...well...you can guess the rest. God's bolts destroying your priestly source of income, indicating you're the only evil one in town, isn't too good for business.
And now we have proposed legislation to stop research cloning based on unproven, illogical, ancient claims that a lump of cells is posessing of something that cannot be proven and is of only importance to a god who cannot be proven. Our medicine takes a hit to the rate of technological advancement almost as severe as nationalization of the health care system. Thanks!
That's all we need: people with super immune systems evolving new super bugs. Then those bugs go and wipe out the billions without super immune systems.
> Linus Torvalds: > > "And don't EVER make the mistake that you can > design something better than what you get from > ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error > with a feedback cycle.
Umm, I thought the Linux community hated Microsoft's standard operating procedure.
Actually, the concept of overcrowing is an invalid one borne of images of starving 3rd world nations. A world of a hundred billion, if a free world, would be a wonderous one at that. Imagine the rate of techonological development.
> I'm holding out for the adamantium skeleton, though...
I'm sorry, but the only reason Wolverine isn't dead already is because he's a major character and therefore won't be killed.
How to Kill Wolverine (Spiderman-level strength and higher):
1. Grab by ankles 2. Swing like bat into brick wall 3. Pour brains out earhole
Hulk/Thing level strength: 1. Flick in head with finger 2. Jump straight to #3.
You know, the last few months I've had an itchy trigger finger to go buy a Hulk or Fantastic Four. They have no fights anymore. The past few issues, which I quick-scanned, had no significant battle scenes. And they wonder why no one is buying "core" Marvel anymore?
> How many parents in America want a brunette > child with a stocky figure in a girl?
More likely the waif look would fall by the wayside as every girl now will have an iron tight, thin waist but wide, doorway scraping hips and a full round ass. (Not to mention full, bicycle inner tube-sized lips and heavy, pendulous D-sized breasts with dark, 6" diameter areolae "ah-REE-oh-lay".)
May I quote from Holy Writ?
"I like big butts, And I cannot lie. You other brothers Can't deny When a girl walks in With an itty bitty waist And a round thing in your face You get sprung."
Actually, nearsightedness is probably a bad example. Without glasses, your eyes probably wouldn't get all that bad to begin with.
There are eye exercises you can do to partially reverse nearsightedness. No one does them because they're a pain in the ass and you'd still need glasses anyway.
Yes, and radio carbon dating works by the nuclear breakdown of one isotope of carbon, which happens at a fixed rate, regardless of whether the dead cat is in a swamp or embedded inside, hmmm, slashdot, umm, uru-clad adamantium deep inside the core of the Hulk's belly.
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Moon: A large mass following a main body. Sometimes in the light, sometimes "where the sun don't shine", it's often pockmarked and always with an enormous trench. Although apparently lifeless, they all possess some "biologically active" areas when searched deeply enough. Some from the outer areas tend to be larger. This is generally esthetically preferred to tiny ones, but not too large as they become gravitationally unstable, unable to support their own weight.
> and makes Lucifer the name of the principal
> fallen angel who must lament the loss of his
> original glory bright as the morning star
Laments? Can you imagine all the ass he's gotten since then?
> There's no distinction between planet and asteroid
Is the gravity heavy enough such that a male mounting a female in the missionary position could penetrate her without any additional force needed?
I believe that is the definition. For a two body system to be a "double body" instead of a planet and a moon, the mutual center of gravity must be outside both. Since the point that the earth revolves around the moon is actually just below the earth's surface, it doesn't count as a double body.
Pluto/Charon, however, I believe is a double planet in that sense.
Nerdling Trivia: Gaia is the mother of Thor. Odin got to know all her secret, stinky places, like her Marianas Trench.
> Ever heard of Tellus?
Is he the big guy or the one who never talks?
1. 5% of star -- Assuming you mean, "be bigger than 5% of the parent star", I doubt even Jupiter would qualify, mass, volume, or even linear radius. If you mean "no more than 5%", then Jupiter would qualify, but why call it not a planet if it were more than 5% the size of a star (as long as it wasn't in fusion itself)?
3. Volcanic activity -- What about Mars, which used to have it, but doesn't currently? What's so special about volcanic activity anyway? Insofar as it's present, it merely represents the natural processes of a large planet. Insofar as it isn't, the planet has cooled, or doesn't have enough radioactive stuff to keep the core hot. In either case, it's an imperfect mapping onto the concept of "sufficiently large body".
You just pulled these three ideas out of your ass, didn't you?
Too many people? Resources running out? Be like Isaac
Actually, the retirement age for full Social Security benefits is now 67, and has been for several years.
The bad part is that the SS "surplus", well, it's not stuffed in a mattress. The government bought government bonds with it. When it comes time to start drawing on that, they'll have to pull it out of the current population by increased borrowing. The only difference is that it will cost more (paying % to buyers of the bonds, i.e. the government itself) is added to the simple borrowing they would have done otherwise had they not built up a surplus.
It's all a massive fraud, with the "logical" thing actually worse than simply borrowing money to pay SS when the baby boomers retire.
> the notion that "physical" pain could be
> banished from most people's lives would have
> seemed no less bizarre
Worse than that. As Isaac Asimov pointed out, painkillers were considered unholy, sinful. After all, The Bibuhl states that "in pain shall ye give birth." Any woman using painkillers during birth was thwarting the will of God.
Then some queen gave birth with painkillers, and no clergy dared claim that anymore.
He also points out the use of lightning rods -- how dare you thwart the bolts thrown by God's Will? Soon, only church steeples were the only buildings without them, and typically being the tallest buildings in town...well...you can guess the rest. God's bolts destroying your priestly source of income, indicating you're the only evil one in town, isn't too good for business.
And now we have proposed legislation to stop research cloning based on unproven, illogical, ancient claims that a lump of cells is posessing of something that cannot be proven and is of only importance to a god who cannot be proven. Our medicine takes a hit to the rate of technological advancement almost as severe as nationalization of the health care system. Thanks!
I believe that was his point, braniac.
That's all we need: people with super immune systems evolving new super bugs. Then those bugs go and wipe out the billions without super immune systems.
Thanks!
I'd rather be bitten by a radioactive horse, if you know what I mean.
> Linus Torvalds:
>
> "And don't EVER make the mistake that you can
> design something better than what you get from
> ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error
> with a feedback cycle.
Umm, I thought the Linux community hated Microsoft's standard operating procedure.
And you'll be able to put your seven 2-foot penises in any one of her 18 holes. Yes, the future is looking mighty bright indeed!
Actually, I prefer the other solution from Logan's Run: sex networks
Julian Simon destroyed Erlich, but, like a seductive psychic who still bilks the public, he remains around years, hell, decades after his debunking.
> the planet becomes over-crowded
Actually, the concept of overcrowing is an invalid one borne of images of starving 3rd world nations. A world of a hundred billion, if a free world, would be a wonderous one at that. Imagine the rate of techonological development.
> I'm holding out for the adamantium skeleton, though...
I'm sorry, but the only reason Wolverine isn't dead already is because he's a major character and therefore won't be killed.
How to Kill Wolverine (Spiderman-level strength and higher):
1. Grab by ankles
2. Swing like bat into brick wall
3. Pour brains out earhole
Hulk/Thing level strength:
1. Flick in head with finger
2. Jump straight to #3.
You know, the last few months I've had an itchy trigger finger to go buy a Hulk or Fantastic Four. They have no fights anymore. The past few issues, which I quick-scanned, had no significant battle scenes. And they wonder why no one is buying "core" Marvel anymore?
> How many parents in America want a brunette
> child with a stocky figure in a girl?
More likely the waif look would fall by the wayside as every girl now will have an iron tight, thin waist but wide, doorway scraping hips and a full round ass. (Not to mention full, bicycle inner tube-sized lips and heavy, pendulous D-sized breasts with dark, 6" diameter areolae "ah-REE-oh-lay".)
May I quote from Holy Writ?
"I like big butts,
And I cannot lie.
You other brothers
Can't deny
When a girl walks in
With an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung."
Here's the sad part: Even the chicks will.
Girl: God damn it! Does EVERYBODY have a 6' cock?!?!?
Well, by "show", I'm sure he meant TV show.
Most of us remember the movie. I actually saw it in the theaters.
Actually, nearsightedness is probably a bad example. Without glasses, your eyes probably wouldn't get all that bad to begin with.
There are eye exercises you can do to partially reverse nearsightedness. No one does them because they're a pain in the ass and you'd still need glasses anyway.
Yes, and radio carbon dating works by the nuclear breakdown of one isotope of carbon, which happens at a fixed rate, regardless of whether the dead cat is in a swamp or embedded inside, hmmm, slashdot, umm, uru-clad adamantium deep inside the core of the Hulk's belly.