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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 07/29/2005 : 04:56:24
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4726733.stm
Does that make 11 Planets or 8? I vote 8.
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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pleco
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Posted - 07/29/2005 : 05:51:36 [Permalink]
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/29/2005 : 10:09:49 [Permalink]
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| Nah, was a false report on the size, Its a half-pluto with a micro satellite. It is a Kupiter Belt Object though. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/29/2005 : 13:55:02 [Permalink]
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I personally prefer to keep Pluto as a planet, even if there is no scientific reason for doing so. Call me sentimental.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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pleco
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Posted - 07/29/2005 : 14:24:45 [Permalink]
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| Yeah, we need a god of the Dead in the solar family. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Stargirl
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 07/30/2005 : 21:17:32 [Permalink]
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Incredibly a second object designated 2003 UB313 was discovered the same day.
And additional reports say that this one is definitely bigger than Pluto.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him - Voltaire |
| Edited by - Stargirl on 07/30/2005 21:20:55 |
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skepticality
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