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Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 8:14pm PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

It's really going to be difficult to convince me that Pluto is larger than Titan based on those numbers unless you're either Jim Kirk or an extremely beautiful woman.


Well I'd like to apologize for looking at this stupid site that has no units. I see that Pluto's actual surface gravity is 1/2 of Ganymede's. My memory is hazy but at one time I'd done figured the surface gravity of all the major objects in our solar system. Shouldn't have trusted the first site on Google's search. :(

Well, there's either 8 planets or like, what, 30.


The REAL rationale for demoting Pluto, revealed. What's the problem with dozens of dwarf planets? The definition of "thing that's massive enough to be round" is not a bad definition. Are you afraid that someone's going to make you memorize them all? It's still fair to only include the "major planets" in a liberal education. This is where the nomenclature stupidity of including the word "planet" in a name and not meaning "planet" really comes into play.
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This will be the solar system thread. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2011, 11:53am PDT NEW
    Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by WITTGENSTEIN 04/13/2011, 12:05pm PDT NEW
        Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2011, 12:19pm PDT NEW
            Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 4:33pm PDT NEW
                I forgot this by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 4:36pm PDT NEW
                    Liver update, plz NT by Just Another Mysterious Stranger 04/13/2011, 6:15pm PDT NEW
                        Re: Liver update, plz by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 8:19pm PDT NEW
                            It looks like you're all having fun together in there. Glad to hear it. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2011, 10:46pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Liver update, plz by Just Another Mysterious Stranger 04/14/2011, 6:14am PDT NEW
                Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2011, 6:30pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 8:14pm PDT NEW
                        Done figured. Wooo hit me with more 'shine, boys :( NT by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 8:15pm PDT NEW
                        Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/13/2011, 10:42pm PDT NEW
                            Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 11:11pm PDT NEW
                            Bye, Ceres! Thanks for the snack, stupid! NT by HEH 04/14/2011, 5:20am PDT NEW
                    Re: Neil deGrasse Tyson: Professional Buzzkill by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 8:25pm PDT NEW
    Okay look. by laudablepuss 04/13/2011, 11:03pm PDT NEW
 
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