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Interesting! But shouldn't this maybe be in the Lounge, or something? :?Quote:
Seeing this thread actually caused me a temporary fit of mirth. The reason for this is because not so long ago I had a lucid dream in which I was zooming at great speeds through our solar system, passing all of the planets (although Jupiter was missing, or possibly at the opposite end of its orbit), and as I got to the outskirts of the solar system I saw Pluto. I passed it and saw ANOTHER planet after it. I did consider this to be odd, but nothing odder than what I've had in other LDs. Still something to chuckle over though. I may have even posted this in the Lucid Experiences, I'm not sure.
Its just a big ice rock and there are tons of them. The big thing about this one was that its bigger than pluto, while the rest are all smaller. A lot of people even argue over pluto however, a lot of people don't really think its a planet.
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Great name for a planet. :|
begad this is a bigger headline then 10th planet
"scientist use l337 to name new planet"
They're all frigid ass rocks anyways. If it can't realistically inhibit life, i don't wanna hear about it!
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begad this is a bigger headline then 10th planet
\"scientist use l337 to name new planet\"[/b]
The new object, temporarily named 2003 UB313.Quote:
Great name for a planet. :|[/b]
I'm glad you read the article. Really.
I am known far and wide for my article reading skills.
thats what you think its name is eubeieQuote:
Originally posted by Kaniaz
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begad this is a bigger headline then 10th planet
\"scientist use l337 to name new planet\"
The new object, temporarily named 2003 UB313.Quote:
Great name for a planet. :|[/b]
I'm glad you read the article. Really.[/b]
I think they should call it Salmone. Thats a great name. 8)
i read somewhere that they wanted the public to come up with a good name. cant find any link tho... any suggestions for a name??
Plans are for it to be named Xena, after the warrior princess.
kickass...im sure it will strike fear into the hearts of men with its shrill of death...or is it arouse them?....meh...Quote:
Originally posted by Squall
Plans are for it to be named Xena, after the warrior princess.
I think that the whole idea of "planets" and "moons" is kind of outdated. Someday I think that objects like Earth, Venus, Luna, Europa, Titan, Io, etc. will be considered one thing; the gas giants and brown dwarfs will be considered tiny stars unable to reach the threshhold of nuclear fusion; and maybe Pluto, Charon, and all those other icy rocks will be considered their own thing. Of course, perhaps their won't be a clear-cut distinction between the first and third group, or likely there will be more catagories classified. I kind of think this way because I predict that in the future we will find more life on gas giant moons than on Earth-like planets (but I could definitely be wrong about this!).
Of course, there will always be the idea of what orbits what (planet/moon distinction), but that is kind of irrelevant to what something actually IS, in my opinion.
Anyway, I think that the reason scientists stick with the whole planet idea is because they find it easier to drum up public enthusiasm that way. They can say, "Oh boy! We found a new planet around a distant star!" and everyone finds it more significant than "We found something like Jupiter (which would not be seen as similar to Earth by the public, more like a brown dwarf) going around a distant star!" And of course the search for the tenth planet (now eleventh) also draws funding.
but there is more than the 10th planet :
http://saturndeathstar.ytmnd.com/
Wasnt SEDNA supposed to be the 10th planet already?
anyway there's bound to be many more in the kuiper belt....
it's not a kuiper belt objectQuote:
Originally posted by Bob
Wasnt SEDNA supposed to be the 10th planet already? *
anyway there's bound to be many more in the kuiper belt....
And besides, Sedna isn't really a planet. it's just a part of all that oort cloud poop. it's too far away to be classified as kuiper belt poop.
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