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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.Doubtless this is true as our Earth does not gain heat from any source, and it still has a hot core at around 6,000 C, and that after...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.If this refers to continuous production of H2S, keep in mind that this compound is toxic to a lot of higher life forms. It seems...
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Ccontrarian reacted to Classical Motion's post in the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals! with
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One can find a lot of artist’s renditions of the outer solar system. From what I’ve read, most of our system lies beyond Pluto’s orbit... -
Ccontrarian replied to the thread NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!.I doubt they are there now either. You will run out of an energy source after some period of time on a dark planet. Life on Earth...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Question Asteroid impacts?.It is purely political, and almost as purely a joke. Almost.....
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Question Asteroid impacts?.Or they could be lying because a certain space agency is placing thrusters on this asteroid so that it can be directed at a certain city...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.The data from New Horizons indicates that over 70% of its surface dates back nearly 4 billion years. A PBS article* indicates "many of...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.Clearly. Just brought these up since there does not appear to be any large impact basins on Pluto except those over a billion years...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.From Wiki: "In celestial mechanics, "clearing the neighbourhood" (or dynamical dominance) around a celestial body's orbit describes...
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Ccontrarian reacted to Helio's post in the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later with Like.
This issue is why I like Margot's model since the question of clearing does not have to be based on what's there or not, but simply how...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.Agreed. I was just looking through impact history of Earth, and there is a mass extinction event every 30 million years or so, blamed on...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.I now recall that Sputnik Planum is considered to result from a recent impact, but it only covers approximately 2.5% of Pluto's surface...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.I understand the rationale but am not aware of any significant bodies in its orbit, and there doesn't appear to be "recent" major impact...
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Ccontrarian replied to the thread Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later.According to the IAU, three criteria for a planet are: It is in orbit around the Sun. It has sufficient mass to assume...
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Ccontrarian reacted to billslugg's post in the thread AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified with Like.
The first time I catch something intelligent coming out of a computer I'll let you all know. So far I haven't gotten a nibble.
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