This is a perfect example of the means by which the open-source community, with all of its trappings of egalitarianism, socialism, communalism, etc., is actually the best hope and source for the kind of technical innovation and industrial progress that free-booting laissez-faire capitalist societies claim to desire. Now if we could just create and harness an open-source community for alternative-fuel vehicles...
I never thought about it before, but if the orbits of Pluto and Neptune overlap,
then theoretically, at some time in the future they will collide, or more likely,
Pluto will be perturbed from its current orbit into a different trajectory, perhaps even ejected from the Solar system all together, depending on the nature of its gravitational encounter with the much more massive Neptune. Pluto's mass is 1.3 × 10(22) kilograms, while Neptune's mass is 1.0244 × 10(26) kilograms.
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It would probably be difficult to get it from him: 1. HE DOESN'T SIT STILL FOR VERY LONG 2. HE PROBABLY DOESN'T MASTURBATE MUCH, LET ALONE DATE.
I'm interested to see if the PRC comes back with some sort of counteroffer to Jimmy Wales; it would be consistent with their negotiating style...
In Nigeria, it's only terrible if it happens to you...
This is a perfect example of the means by which the open-source community, with all of its trappings of egalitarianism, socialism, communalism, etc., is actually the best hope and source for the kind of technical innovation and industrial progress that free-booting laissez-faire capitalist societies claim to desire. Now if we could just create and harness an open-source community for alternative-fuel vehicles...
I never thought about it before, but if the orbits of Pluto and Neptune overlap, then theoretically, at some time in the future they will collide, or more likely, Pluto will be perturbed from its current orbit into a different trajectory, perhaps even ejected from the Solar system all together, depending on the nature of its gravitational encounter with the much more massive Neptune. Pluto's mass is 1.3 × 10(22) kilograms, while Neptune's mass is 1.0244 × 10(26) kilograms.
It's a good thing I sold all my shares of Pluto.com to a Ferengi before all this went down.