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#2 2006-08-24 4:37 pm
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Makes sense. The only downside is that they took so long to do it.
Now if they can only get the US to convert to Metric, we'd be on a roll.
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#3 2006-08-24 4:42 pm
- Tallgeese
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Metric = suck
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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#4 2006-08-24 5:04 pm
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My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Seriously though, one of the few cost-cutting moves by Reagan's presidency was to cut the metrification effort in the US.
Oh, and I'm glad Pluto is gone.
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#5 2006-08-24 5:15 pm
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Tallgeese wrote:
Metric = suck
12 inches = 1 foot
3 feet = 1 yard
5280 feet = 1 mile
That sooo much easier then having everything divisible by 1000 and labeled with a standard naming convention. 
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#7 2006-08-24 5:58 pm
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Awwwwwww, I was hoping that they nuked it. 
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#8 2006-08-24 6:18 pm
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MacMonkey wrote:
Awwwwwww, I was hoping that they nuked it.
It would take awhile to get a nuke out that far.
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#9 2006-08-24 6:26 pm
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MacMonkey wrote:
Awwwwwww, I was hoping that they nuked it.
No, we're going to blow up the moon on July 4th:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1VW5K-UuU
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#12 2006-08-24 9:30 pm
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I like Pluto, and think it should stay a plannet
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#13 2006-08-24 9:35 pm
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Yeah, we get it, its not big enough etc, but I grew up all my life with the "fact" that it was a planet. Since the fact was based on a human invented category anyway, and since the universe never changed or shifted, its really just humans changing their language, and I like the one I grew up with better. I will miss the planet Pluto.
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#14 2006-08-24 9:47 pm
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I like the new definition, so I will be able to live with no pluto (as a planet)
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#15 2006-08-24 10:45 pm
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StaticAge wrote:
Since the fact was based on a human invented category anyway, and since the universe never changed or shifted, its really just humans changing their language.
No, humans originally thought Pluto was much, MUCH larger than we know now, so it was easily classified as a planet back in the day. As technology improved, Pluto kept "getting" smaller and smaller, until it no longer fit into the category of a planet. The definition essentially remained the same, but our understanding of Pluto has changed drastically.
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#16 2006-08-25 4:03 am
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Chickenhawk wrote:
I like the new definition, so I will be able to live with no pluto (as a planet)
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#17 2006-08-25 4:14 am
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imikedaman wrote:
StaticAge wrote:
Since the fact was based on a human invented category anyway, and since the universe never changed or shifted, its really just humans changing their language.
No, humans originally thought Pluto was much, MUCH larger than we know now, so it was easily classified as a planet back in the day. As technology improved, Pluto kept "getting" smaller and smaller, until it no longer fit into the category of a planet. The definition essentially remained the same, but our understanding of Pluto has changed drastically.
It's not that it kept on getting smaller - it's that it is actually two object orbiting each other, a binary system - but not like a moon orbiting a planet, they both orbit a point between them.
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#18 2006-08-25 4:48 am
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#19 2006-08-25 5:37 am
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I'd have preferred if they'd left it the way it was, but I understand why Pluto can no longer be a planet. Ah well.
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#20 2006-08-25 5:46 am
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The new way to remember the planets:
"My Very Educated Mother Just Said Uhohh, No Pluto!"
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#21 2006-08-25 6:39 am
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In other news, I declare that France is no longer a country. 
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#22 2006-08-25 6:48 am
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Stupid no deodorant and helping us win our stupid independence.
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#23 2006-08-25 6:49 am
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tomfoolery wrote:
In other news, I declare that France is no longer a country.
tF
I agree - like Pluto, they are pretty far out there
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#24 2006-08-25 8:47 am
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So when are they gonna rename Xena to Goofy?
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#25 2006-08-25 2:57 pm
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resedit wrote:
*snip*
It's not that it kept on getting smaller - it's that it is actually two object orbiting each other, a binary system - but not like a moon orbiting a planet, they both orbit a point between them.
Isn't even a moon orbiting a planet (like the Earth) technically a binary system, just to an infinitesimal degree?
Anyway, Charon is huge compared to Pluto, so I suppose that the effects must be quite noticeable.
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