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moakley
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USA
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 Posted - 08/25/2006 : 11:02:41 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by McQ
Oh this is just great! Now what the hell is My Very Elderly Mother Just Sitting Upon Nine of?
Perhaps, Nothing instead... |
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Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 08/25/2006 : 12:54:18 [Permalink]
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Back when I was a lad, we had nine planets, and didn't have any fancy-schmancy space rockets. We had to walk to every damned one of them. Uphill. In both directions.
I'd learned the planets this way (I think Heinlein provided this one): Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jam Sandwich Under No Protest. "Thoughtfully" was for Terra, and "A" was for Asteroids.
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Michael Mozina
SFN Regular
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Posted - 08/25/2006 : 15:48:48 [Permalink]
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| You ain't seen nothin' yet, just wait till gas model solar theory gets demoted. :) |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/25/2006 : 16:25:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Michael Mozina
You ain't seen nothin' yet, just wait till gas model solar theory gets demoted. :)
Sorry, but I don't think any of us here will live long enough to see "never."
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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Starman
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Sweden
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 05:41:16 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
The American Association of Asstrologers said "it wouldnt effect charting of future, ...pluto is still an effective energy source..."
This from a group that doesn't remember it's own history. Pluto wasn't part of Astology as far back as the 70's. It was considered irrelevant because a mere 40 years earlier, it was completely unknown.
Somebody hasn't been talking to the old astrologers.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 23:37:44 [Permalink]
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| I can name the planets but I could never remember the mnemonic anyway. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 08/28/2006 : 23:58:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by beskeptigal
I can name the planets but I could never remember the mnemonic anyway.
It's very easy, B! You, too can learn the mnemonic phrase! Remarkably, mnemonics itself can help you, as it fortunately works both ways: Mercury = Mother, Venus = very, Terra = thoughtfully, Mars = made, Asteroids = a, Jupiter = jam, Saturn = sandwich, Uranus = under, Neptune = no, Pluto = protest.
And Bob's your uncle, Guv'nor! Unfortunately, that's now an obsolete mnemonic.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/31/2006 : 21:26:06 [Permalink]
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| Phil Plait weighs in on Pluto in his blog and also on the newest addition of Skepticality. Good stuff!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2006 : 23:02:21 [Permalink]
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The Calgary CBC AM radio station is running a phone in contest for a new mnemonic. They had this entry:
Men Vigorously Enjoy Making Juicy Sounding Underarm Noises.
The anouncer thought this would be popular with 10 year old boys.
Ceres could be added by inserting "Creative" |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 00:30:20 [Permalink]
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Mean-Visaged Earth Men Jilted Small, Unwanted Neighbors.
Exactly what the assembled astronomers did in the Czech Republic recently.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/01/2006 : 12:52:14 [Permalink]
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| Exquisite, Halfmooner! |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Michael Mozina
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/02/2006 : 19:42:15 [Permalink]
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Now, the protests begin:quote:
Pluto demotion draws protest
POSTED: 9:09 a.m. EDT, September 2, 2006
Al Tombaugh, the son of Pluto founder Clyde
Tombaugh, attends a pro-Pluto rally Friday.
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (AP) -- Size doesn't matter.
That was the message as friends and colleagues of the late Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto, gathered on the New Mexico State University campus to protest the International Astronomical Union's recent decision to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 50 students and staff members turned out Friday for the good-natured challenge. Some were wearing T-shirts and carrying signs that read "Protest for Pluto" and "Size Doesn't Matter."
Tombaugh's widow, Patricia, and their son, Al Tombaugh, also participated.
NMSU astronomer Bernie McNamara told the crowd that textbooks shouldn't be rewritten.
"Why not? Because the debate is not over," McNamara said.
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