palmtop-tiger said:
From the Rhine, nine.
kudichan said:
It could be from the Maas or the Memel...oh, wait...
Nope, from Saale and Elster.
palmtop-tiger said:
From the Rhine, nine.
kudichan said:
It could be from the Maas or the Memel...oh, wait...
Nope, from Saale and Elster.
ancientalchemist said:
Also here is the new and improved Pluto.
I wonder if they'll find geysers on Pluto like they did on Triton as in theory they should be similar.
That's probably smoke from the Mi-go brain cylinder factories.
The Pluto flyby earlier today was a success.
http://www.space.com/29946-pluto-flyby-success-nasa-new-horizons.html
i think Kepler is a pretty cool guy. eh observes new exoplaents and doesnt afraid of anything.
Kepler may have found a planet that may be the most similar to Earth yet.
http://www.space.com/30026-earth-twin-kepler-452b-exoplanet-discovery.html
It's older and larger so may not actually be habitable to life as we know it.
I just posted that, in plain English.
Found this web site where someone combined all the tapes of communications and decent video from the first moon landing and combined them with comments showing who is talking.
It's almost like watching it as it happened.
Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle made a successful landing on the 23rd.
I forgot to post this .
Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft lifted off on it's return to flight and arrived at ISS.
Spacex finally stuck the landing.
I just watched the third of the six satellite launches. Char why did you have to post before my bedtime?
Edit: Saw all six launches, now time for bed.
What I would love to have is a sample of a gas cloud for two reasons:
1, see if aldehydes turned into carbohydrates or they are there from other sources
2, PAH!
CASE MADE FOR 'NINTH PLANET'
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35365323
American astronomers say they have strong evidence that there is a ninth planet in our Solar System orbiting far beyond even the dwarf world Pluto.
The team, from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has no direct observations to confirm its presence just yet.
Rather, the scientists make the claim based on the way other far-flung objects are seen to move.
But if proven, the putative planet would have 10 times the mass of Earth.
The Caltech astronomers have a vague idea where it ought to be on the sky, and their work is sure to fire a campaign to try to track it down.
"There are many telescopes on the Earth that actually have a chance of being able to find it," said Dr Mike Brown.
"And I'm really hoping that as we announce this, people start a worldwide search to go find this ninth planet."
The group's calculations suggest the object orbits 20 times farther from the Sun on average than does the eighth - and currently outermost - planet, Neptune, which moves about 4.5 billion km from our star.
But unlike the near-circular paths traced by the main planets, this novel object would be in a highly elliptical trajectory, taking between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete one full lap around the Sun.
The Caltech group has analysed the movements of objects in a band of far-off icy material known as the Kuiper Belt. It is in this band that Pluto resides.
The scientists say they see distinct alignments among some members of the Kuiper Belt - and in particular two of its larger members known as Sedna and 2012 VP113. These alignments, they argue, are best explained by the existence of a hitherto unidentified large planet.
"The most distant objects all swing out in one direction in a very strange way that shouldn't happen, and we realised the only way we could get them to swing in one direction is if there is a massive planet, also very distant in the Solar System, keeping them in place while they all go around the Sun," explained Dr Brown.
"I went from trying very hard to be sceptical that what we were talking about was true, to suddenly thinking, 'this might actually be true'."
The idea that there might be a so-called Planet X moving in the distant reaches of the Solar System has been debated for more than a hundred years. It has fallen in and out of vogue.
What makes this claim a little more interesting is the lead author behind it.
Dr Brown specialises in finding far-flung objects, and it was his discovery of 2,236km-wide Eris in the Kuiper Belt in 2005 that led to the demotion of Pluto from full planet status a year later.
At that stage, Pluto was thought to be slightly smaller than Eris, but is now known to be just a little bit bigger.
Others who model the outer Solar System have been saying for some years that the range of sizes seen in the objects so far identified in the Kuiper Belt suggest another planet perhaps the size of Earth or Mars could be a possibility. But there is sure to be strong scepticism until a confirmed telescopic observation is made.
Dr Brown and Konstantin Batygin report their work in the Astronomical Journal.
Related:
At the time of the discovery of the planet Pluto in 1930 Lovecraft himself very casually suggested, in a letter to a friend, that Yuggoth might "probably" be the same as Pluto. Other writers have since claimed that it is actually an enormous trans-Neptunian world that orbits perpendicular to the ecliptic of the solar system. The Italian astronomer Albino Carbognani has suggested that any planet discovered beyond Pluto might be named Yuggoth.
Niburu confirmed. Zecharia Sitchin was right.
Planet Nine from Outer Space (2016).
Blue Origin re-flying their rocket.
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