Then I guess we should reclassify Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta planets as well... you know, for historic reasons.
Originally the Sun and moon were classified as planets. Should we keep that definition for historic reasons?
What about all the round trans-Neptunian objects? 2003 UB313, Charon, Sedna, Quaoar, or the 1000 others? Should all those be planets as well? And if you're gonna include at least everything in the Kuiper belt, you might as well include all the round asteroids. And all the round Trojan bodies.
Shoot, while you're at it, why don't we just include every single comet in the Oort cloud? Then the solar system would have billions of planets. Take that 55 Cancri!
/sarcasm
I don't understand why people have a hard time "letting go" of Pluto as a planet... It's floating in a cloud of objects, just like Ceres. And just like Ceres, once we discovered that it's just one of many (some even larger) in a belt of objects, it got reclassified. What's so freggin' hard to understand?
Apple puts out a proprietary, defective-by-design consumer electronics product and won't port the required software to platforms other than Mac OS or Windows and it's somehow a Linux shortcoming?
YES
All you're doing with that statement is placing blame. It may be Apple's "fault", but it's still a Linux shortcoming any way you slice it.
Right. Orbit doesn't require a precise combination of velocity, vector, and distance. Just launch the lunar module. It'll find an orbit.
It's not "finding" an orbit... it's already in orbit. Applying a small bit of delta V towards the sun isn't going to put anything on a crash course... it's just going to change its orbit (like the original poster said).
To "hurl" something into the sun, it must make enough of a de-orbit burn (earth-sun orbit, that is) to put its perihelios within the sun's radius. IIRC, that de-orbit burn would have to be something on the order of 30 km/s, which is nearly 3 times the escape velocity of Earth.
But none of that science does us an ounce of good if we're pulverized by space rocks.
I agree, but getting John Q Public to understand that it's a real possibility (or rather inevitability) and not just something that happens in the movies is a difficult proposition.
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You do realize that Ceres was classified as a planet before the discovery of more asteroids, right?
What makes the Kuiper belt so different that its inhabitants get to be planets, and the asteroids don't?
Then I guess we should reclassify Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta planets as well... you know, for historic reasons.
/sarcasm
Originally the Sun and moon were classified as planets. Should we keep that definition for historic reasons?
What about all the round trans-Neptunian objects? 2003 UB313, Charon, Sedna, Quaoar, or the 1000 others? Should all those be planets as well? And if you're gonna include at least everything in the Kuiper belt, you might as well include all the round asteroids. And all the round Trojan bodies.
Shoot, while you're at it, why don't we just include every single comet in the Oort cloud? Then the solar system would have billions of planets. Take that 55 Cancri!
I don't understand why people have a hard time "letting go" of Pluto as a planet... It's floating in a cloud of objects, just like Ceres. And just like Ceres, once we discovered that it's just one of many (some even larger) in a belt of objects, it got reclassified. What's so freggin' hard to understand?
All you're doing with that statement is placing blame. It may be Apple's "fault", but it's still a Linux shortcoming any way you slice it.
Uhhh, You can tunnel RDP over VPN.
In fact, you can tunnel most network protocols over VPN....
To "hurl" something into the sun, it must make enough of a de-orbit burn (earth-sun orbit, that is) to put its perihelios within the sun's radius. IIRC, that de-orbit burn would have to be something on the order of 30 km/s, which is nearly 3 times the escape velocity of Earth.
[i]Gasoline has a long proven history of relative safety. The liquid isn't flammable at all.[/i] I guess you've never heard of the Ford Pinto.