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29 Jul 2005 08:43:07 AM |
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OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
The article continues at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4726733.stm
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "magilla" |
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| Title: Re: New planetoid found in our solar system |
30 Jul 2005 09:51:05 AM |
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Del wrote:
magilla wrote:
duke wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and t hen
dismantle the ship.
duke
The really pathetic thing is that Duke has no joy in his life.
On the contrary. Responses to his posts--especially
negative ones--make his day. If he wasn't important
would people be responding to him?
It is always a challenge to decide whether or not to respond to someone
like Duke. Having spent time over at talk.origins, I agree with the
consensus there: forget about the troll, but respond for the benefit of
any lurkers who really want to know what people think, or are honestly
looking for answers.
I think vitriolic responses, while cathartic, are ultimately
counterproductive, because those really do make Duke happy. And that's
really sad.
Chris
aa2186
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| User: "Glenn Arnold" |
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29 Jul 2005 02:20:09 PM |
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duke wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:50:34 -0500, "Denis Loubet" <dloubet@io.com> wrote:
Man! It just gets more and more crowded around here!
Rumor has it they plan to give all atheists paid vacations over there, and then
dismantle the ship.
No, just hairdressers and telephone sanitizers.
Glenn Arnold
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| User: "" |
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31 Jul 2005 05:01:23 PM |
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Gregory Gadow wrote:
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
Don't you think there's another chunk of ice floating around out there,
and that it's only a matter of time before it's discovered? Ho hum.
Prayer Of A Worker:
Lord, Jesus Christ, I offer you today all my work, my hopes, my sorrows
and joy. Grant me the grace to remain close to you today, to work with
you and to do all that I do for your honor and glory. Help me to love
you with all my strength.
Help me, Lord, to give a full day's work for a full day's pay. Help me
to respect the property of others, to be honest in dealing with those
involved in this task, and to put forth effort with personal interest.
Give me the spirit of charity that I may contribute to the happiness of
all those with whom I work and when the job is done, grant us all a
peaceful rest.
St. Joseph, patron of workers, pray for me. Amen.
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
01 Aug 2005 08:18:38 AM |
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"vivapadrepio@aol.com" wrote:
Gregory Gadow wrote:
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
Don't you think there's another chunk of ice floating around out there,
and that it's only a matter of time before it's discovered? Ho hum.
There are about 100 known Kuiper Belt objects, out of an estimated 10,000
objects with a diameter of 100km or more. That this particular planetoid is
big enough to be seen from such a vast difference is noteworthy.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "DanielSan" |
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31 Jul 2005 05:52:00 PM |
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wrote:
Gregory Gadow wrote:
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
Don't you think there's another chunk of ice floating around out there,
and that it's only a matter of time before it's discovered? Ho hum.
Yes. There is much about the galaxy (and the universe) that we do not
know about. Of course, there are people who claim they know, but
they're acting under their own self-comforting delusions.
<snip that which goes against the Bible's teachings>
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* DanielSan -- alt.atheism #2226 *
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* "No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, *
* the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they *
* have few followers now." Arthur C. Clarke *
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| User: "Josef Balluch" |
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01 Aug 2005 11:53:01 AM |
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In a message sent 'round the world, poured fuel on
the fire with the following:
....
Ho hum.
Prayer Of A Worker:
Ho hum.
The ship was sinking rapidly, and the Captain realized he had to act
quickly. He ordered everyone to put on a life jacket. Pausing for a
moment, he then said "Is anyone here willing to say a prayer?"
One man stepped forward and said "Yes Captain, I would be happy to say a
prayer."
Good! said the captain. "You pray while the rest of us put on our
lifejackets - we're one short."
Regards,
Josef
Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be nullified on behalf of a
single petitioner, admittedly unworthy.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
30 Jul 2005 04:00:15 PM |
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In episode <42EA326B.613F48AB@serv.net>, Gregory Gadow burst into the room
and exclaimed:
Distant object found orbiting Sun
Isn't this the second one? I'm getting confused, do we have 9, 10, or 11
planets? Or, well, 8 maybe as Pluto's planet status seems disputed...
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Mark K. Bilbo - a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
Alt-atheism website at: http://www.alt-atheism.org
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"Come to think of it, there are already a million
monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet
is NOTHING like Shakespeare!" -- Blair Houghton
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
01 Aug 2005 08:16:23 AM |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" wrote:
In episode <42EA326B.613F48AB@serv.net>, Gregory Gadow burst into the room
and exclaimed:
Distant object found orbiting Sun
Isn't this the second one? I'm getting confused, do we have 9, 10, or 11
planets? Or, well, 8 maybe as Pluto's planet status seems disputed...
Last I heard, the international consensus was that Pluto (and its moon Charon)
had been demoted to trans-Neptunian or Kuiper Belt object. Its estimated
diameter of 2,320 km makes it only two-thirds the size of Earth's moon. In
fact, Pluto is smaller than six other moons in our solar system: Io, Europa,
Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton. In addition, there are some 100 known
Kuiper Belt objects; other than size, Pluto and Chiron are indistinguishable
from these KBOs or known comets.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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| User: "Meteorite Debris" |
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29 Jul 2005 11:02:28 PM |
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On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:43:07 -0700 the ET form known as Gregory
Gadow<techbear@serv.net> sent a radio signal across the vast expanse
of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
The article continues at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4726733.stm
Amazing. What name will it be given? Something from Greek mythology.
--
Remove YOUR_SHOES before replying
apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
Chief EAC prophet
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2009
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Apatriotism Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatriotism
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: OT: New planetoid found in our solar system |
29 Jul 2005 10:35:55 PM |
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"Meteorite Debris" <epicurus1@YOUR_SHOESoptusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d5583b935159fe298a1de@news.optusnet.com.au...
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 06:43:07 -0700 the ET form known as Gregory
Gadow<techbear@serv.net> sent a radio signal across the vast expanse
of deep space -._.--._.--._.--._.--._.--._.
Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer
reaches. It is being hailed as "a great discovery".
Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the
Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than
Pluto.
It is one of the largest objects ever found in the outer Solar System
and is almost certainly made of ice and rock.
It is at least 1,500km (930 miles) across and may be larger than Pluto,
which is 2,274km (1,400 miles) across.
The uncertainty in estimates of its size is due to errors in its
reflectivity.
It might be a large, dim object, or a smaller, brighter object. Whatever
it is, astronomers consider it a major discovery.
The article continues at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4726733.stm
Amazing. What name will it be given? Something from Greek mythology.
How do you say 'mother ship' in ancient Greek? ;-)
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Remove YOUR_SHOES before replying
apatriot #1, atheist #1417,
Chief EAC prophet
Jason Gastrich is praying for me on 8 January 2009
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~pk1956/
Apatriotism Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apatriotism
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves
were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in
Hell.
-Mencken
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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30 Jul 2005 09:39:32 AM |
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:32:28 +0930, Meteorite Debris
<epicurus1@YOUR_SHOESoptusnet.com.au> drained his beer, leaned back in
the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
Amazing. What name will it be given? Something from Greek mythology.
I think they've been dipping into other traditions for KBOs. Sedna
(2003 VB12), for example is an Inuit goddess of the sea.
--
Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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| User: "johac" |
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31 Jul 2005 03:03:11 AM |
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In article <334ne1t45nnguqj7jc84ointvo5ks4kcuq@4ax.com>,
Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:32:28 +0930, Meteorite Debris
<epicurus1@YOUR_SHOESoptusnet.com.au> drained his beer, leaned back in
the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
Amazing. What name will it be given? Something from Greek mythology.
I think they've been dipping into other traditions for KBOs. Sedna
(2003 VB12), for example is an Inuit goddess of the sea.
How about Hel after the Norse goddess of the dead, since life is rather
improbable out there. It goes along with Pluto, the Roman name for
Hades, the god of the dead. Proserpina, Pluto's consort, would be
another good choice if one wants to stick with Greco-Roman mythology.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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01 Aug 2005 08:06:24 AM |
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johac wrote:
In article <334ne1t45nnguqj7jc84ointvo5ks4kcuq@4ax.com>,
Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@mindOBVIOUSspring.com> wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:32:28 +0930, Meteorite Debris
<epicurus1@YOUR_SHOESoptusnet.com.au> drained his beer, leaned back in
the alt.atheism beanbag and drunkenly proclaimed the following
Amazing. What name will it be given? Something from Greek mythology.
I think they've been dipping into other traditions for KBOs. Sedna
(2003 VB12), for example is an Inuit goddess of the sea.
How about Hel after the Norse goddess of the dead, since life is rather
improbable out there. It goes along with Pluto, the Roman name for
Hades, the god of the dead. Proserpina, Pluto's consort, would be
another good choice if one wants to stick with Greco-Roman mythology.
I rather like the theme of naming major trans-Neptunian objects for creatures
of the underworld, although I an understand drawing on Inuit and other Arctic
cultures as well.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be
mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not
consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists
in professing to believe what one does not believe. It
is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may
so express it, that mental lying has produced in society.
When man has so far corrupted and prostituted the
chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional
belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared
himself for the commission of every other crime."
- Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
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