And what happens when I block on sight without checking headers or anything? Is it possible that people will start blocking each other in an attempt at blocking the barbarians?
But at the same time I see people who want Pluto to remain a planet for the same reason, that is, they want to keep it at 9 because it's always been 9 and so on. I could accept roundness to be a criteria, but then again how round is round enough? The result is that we have no idea how many planets we have. Is Pluto round enough? Is Sedna round enough? What about other large KBO's? I'm just saying size and roundness is not the only criteria I would look at, especially not since we could end up with hundreds of "planets".
How utterly ridiculous. Even if they do find a boat, it proves nothing else than that they've found a boat. The story itself, about Noah and his Ark, contains so many scientific and factual errors it's embarassing to see people actually believe in it. But we knew that already, didn't we? And this story got almost 2000 comments, how the hell can a bunch of morons climbing a mountain trying to prove their fairytales to be true be interesting? This site should comit itself to science and not archaic primitive and barbaric beliefs in fairytales.
Maybe if they bring back the entire thing that was there before, then yes. But why in the name of all that is good and pure did they remove everything? What was the bloody point of that?
I agree that there are historical reasons to keep Pluto classified as a planet, even after the discovery of the Kuiper belt. And it could very well be a planet by my own personal (and unofficial, of course) criteria, that is, it's somewhat round and orbits a star. But is size and orbit the only things to consider? I mean we have the Kuiper belt and almost certainly the Oort cloud, full of large and small dusty/icey bodies. In my view, both Pluto and Sedna fit in that category. What if we discover a Kuiper object the size of Pluto, should it be classified as a planet then? Twice the size of Pluto?
The problem is, our classifications are based on our solar system, and only on what we know about it. Even if we change Pluto to be classified as a KBO, we will probably have to change our system again a few times as we find more and more. Still, I think that Pluto is not a planet. However if there were no Kuiper object, I would think differently. I guess we all have different criteria we like to use. (I will still acknowledge Pluto as a planet in any conversation or such like, because that is the standard. I might throw in my own thoughts about the whole thing, but that's another matter...)
And also, a planet doesn't have to have an atmosphere. I don't think it should be considered a planet either, but that's mostly because it's more like a KBO.
gas giant: anything mostly gas
planet: anything round and mostly solid with an atmosphere
moon: anything solid and round but without an atmosphere
asteroid: anything not round
Our definitions are based on our discoveries and knowledge. It makes sense that if we are going to try to classify everything, then we must have some sort of reference. Earth is decided to be a planet. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus as well, and that was way before we knew anything about these planets. How large they were or whatever. My suggestions:
Star: Massive enough to cause fusion reactions
Planet: Massive enough to be round, but not so massive it starts burning fuel as a star does
Asteroid: Fragments, rocks, etc. that are too small and not massive enough to be somewhat round
Question is where the icey bodies go. Asteroids? "Cometoids"?
That would be great. Possible boats, u-boats, balloons, landers, even sample returns. Of course this wont happen anytime soon.:( I also want to see dedicated probes for Neptune and Uranus. To see those geysers on Triton up close would be excellent.
First of all, these images are not taken by Hubble, but rather by a groundbased telescope. Secondly, Titan is small and far away, and thirdly, Titan is covered in a thick atmosphere. What we should do is not to complain that these pictures are bad, instead let us acknowledge the science and engineering that let us take pictures this good. But you're right, the next generation of spaceborn telescope is certainly something to look forward to!
Just like anywhere else really; someone has a pressing need to ruin the fun for everyone. They do it in school, they do it at work, they do it on the Internet and TV. I wonder if they enjoy it.
As you say, same thing with TV. The people that, during the 19th century had the first ideas of TV, saw it as a means to broadcast worldnews around the world, or as an educational tool. Drawings from that period of time show people watching their teacher's lectures on TV, or using it as a videophone, consulting their teacher or whatever. What happened? The absolutely lowest common denominator rules and this is why we now have to suffer a veritable flood of washed-out, cliché filled sitcoms, "reality" shows with a bunch of morons locked up in a house (I say let's leave them there), extremely biased "news" channels, and utterly inane shows about supernatural phenomenon.
And now the Internet, which, by some people, apparently seem irrelevant enough to ruin in order to make a quick buck.
All from the beginnings of the Dark Ages up until the Age of Enlightenment (which btw is welcome back to finish the job), the church DID have great power in Europe and other places. During that time, almost no significant scientific discoveries were made. Hypatia was killed rather brutally by a christian mob in the final stages of the ancient era, one of the things that marked the beginning of a new age, the Dark Age.
This is the time when ridiculous ideas such as Earth being flat and the centre of the universe were promoted and forced upon the people, for example. From now on, scientists, philosophers and pagans and others better look out. You do know about Bruno, Galileo and others, right? Punished for their heretic views. And you do know about the constant indoctrination, right? Or what about all the women and children burnt at the stake, after being "found guilty" of a non-crime, with no evidence? Science was not welcome if it kept questioning the Bible or the Church's interpretation of it.
Oh, and one more thing... having a society run by madmen who wish to stifle imagination, philosophy, and science, is indeed a society run by backward savages.
We live in a strange world too, since we try to protect our children from "bad words" being uttered on TV or violence in the movies, yet we have no problem having them read the Bible; and we try to keep naked breasts out of their entire worldview for fear of eternal damage, yet we have no problem when it comes to indoctrinating them with ridiculous and archaic ideas.
Everyone has the right to drive, and it's their right to ignore the fact that there's not enough room for them all, and not enough atmosphere to pollute for them all.:)
I've read about bold and at this point unrealistic propositions regarding trains. How about underground vacuum tunnels, where maglev trains could reach amazing speeds. And then connect the entire EU with this system. Ultrafast communications. As I said it's just a dream, and unrealistic, but then again I also would like to see space colonies Gerard K O'Neill style, hypersonic aeroplanes and manned space missions around the solar system...
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...can they detect some sort of energyfield of an unknown kind?
Have you even read the story of Noah's Ark? If you have, then you should be able to realize it is a myth. Just think, dammit.
Flamebait? Perhaps I was right, then.
Because it's too difficult to learn how to pronounce an entire foreign word...
If he thinks Gimp has a bad UI (last time I checked I would've agreed), then apparently he's never seen Blender. Whoah!
Still have my TI-85 I got back in '95. Loved the Basic in it too, wrote all kinds of ga... useful programs. :)
And what happens when I block on sight without checking headers or anything? Is it possible that people will start blocking each other in an attempt at blocking the barbarians?
But at the same time I see people who want Pluto to remain a planet for the same reason, that is, they want to keep it at 9 because it's always been 9 and so on. I could accept roundness to be a criteria, but then again how round is round enough? The result is that we have no idea how many planets we have. Is Pluto round enough? Is Sedna round enough? What about other large KBO's? I'm just saying size and roundness is not the only criteria I would look at, especially not since we could end up with hundreds of "planets".
How utterly ridiculous. Even if they do find a boat, it proves nothing else than that they've found a boat. The story itself, about Noah and his Ark, contains so many scientific and factual errors it's embarassing to see people actually believe in it. But we knew that already, didn't we? And this story got almost 2000 comments, how the hell can a bunch of morons climbing a mountain trying to prove their fairytales to be true be interesting? This site should comit itself to science and not archaic primitive and barbaric beliefs in fairytales.
Maybe if they bring back the entire thing that was there before, then yes. But why in the name of all that is good and pure did they remove everything? What was the bloody point of that?
The problem is, our classifications are based on our solar system, and only on what we know about it. Even if we change Pluto to be classified as a KBO, we will probably have to change our system again a few times as we find more and more. Still, I think that Pluto is not a planet. However if there were no Kuiper object, I would think differently. I guess we all have different criteria we like to use. (I will still acknowledge Pluto as a planet in any conversation or such like, because that is the standard. I might throw in my own thoughts about the whole thing, but that's another matter...)
And also, a planet doesn't have to have an atmosphere. I don't think it should be considered a planet either, but that's mostly because it's more like a KBO.
gas giant: anything mostly gas
planet: anything round and mostly solid with an atmosphere
moon: anything solid and round but without an atmosphere
asteroid: anything not round
Our definitions are based on our discoveries and knowledge. It makes sense that if we are going to try to classify everything, then we must have some sort of reference. Earth is decided to be a planet. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus as well, and that was way before we knew anything about these planets. How large they were or whatever. My suggestions:
Star: Massive enough to cause fusion reactions
Planet: Massive enough to be round, but not so massive it starts burning fuel as a star does
Asteroid: Fragments, rocks, etc. that are too small and not massive enough to be somewhat round
Question is where the icey bodies go. Asteroids? "Cometoids"?
Cassini-Huygens is a joint NASA-ESA mission, launched by NASA, yes.
That would be great. Possible boats, u-boats, balloons, landers, even sample returns. Of course this wont happen anytime soon. :( I also want to see dedicated probes for Neptune and Uranus. To see those geysers on Triton up close would be excellent.
First of all, these images are not taken by Hubble, but rather by a groundbased telescope. Secondly, Titan is small and far away, and thirdly, Titan is covered in a thick atmosphere. What we should do is not to complain that these pictures are bad, instead let us acknowledge the science and engineering that let us take pictures this good. But you're right, the next generation of spaceborn telescope is certainly something to look forward to!
As you say, same thing with TV. The people that, during the 19th century had the first ideas of TV, saw it as a means to broadcast worldnews around the world, or as an educational tool. Drawings from that period of time show people watching their teacher's lectures on TV, or using it as a videophone, consulting their teacher or whatever. What happened? The absolutely lowest common denominator rules and this is why we now have to suffer a veritable flood of washed-out, cliché filled sitcoms, "reality" shows with a bunch of morons locked up in a house (I say let's leave them there), extremely biased "news" channels, and utterly inane shows about supernatural phenomenon.
And now the Internet, which, by some people, apparently seem irrelevant enough to ruin in order to make a quick buck.
This is the time when ridiculous ideas such as Earth being flat and the centre of the universe were promoted and forced upon the people, for example. From now on, scientists, philosophers and pagans and others better look out. You do know about Bruno, Galileo and others, right? Punished for their heretic views. And you do know about the constant indoctrination, right? Or what about all the women and children burnt at the stake, after being "found guilty" of a non-crime, with no evidence? Science was not welcome if it kept questioning the Bible or the Church's interpretation of it.
Oh, and one more thing... having a society run by madmen who wish to stifle imagination, philosophy, and science, is indeed a society run by backward savages.
We live in a strange world too, since we try to protect our children from "bad words" being uttered on TV or violence in the movies, yet we have no problem having them read the Bible; and we try to keep naked breasts out of their entire worldview for fear of eternal damage, yet we have no problem when it comes to indoctrinating them with ridiculous and archaic ideas.
Or put it on four concrete blocks or something and then just let it go.
Wasn't Mars the god of war?
The Walla! portal seems to be in hebrew. One of 5000 other languages I don't know...
Well come on over then. Oh, no, wait... I don't have time for morons like you :)
Everyone has the right to drive, and it's their right to ignore the fact that there's not enough room for them all, and not enough atmosphere to pollute for them all. :)
Yes, but that also means anyone, regardless of income, will get healthcare for next to nothing. Otherwise only the rich ones could afford it.
I've read about bold and at this point unrealistic propositions regarding trains. How about underground vacuum tunnels, where maglev trains could reach amazing speeds. And then connect the entire EU with this system. Ultrafast communications. As I said it's just a dream, and unrealistic, but then again I also would like to see space colonies Gerard K O'Neill style, hypersonic aeroplanes and manned space missions around the solar system...