Comment Re:And still (Score 4, Interesting) 196
Jupiter emits more heat into space than it receives from the Sun.
(I agree with you, just playing devil's advocate).
Jupiter emits more heat into space than it receives from the Sun.
(I agree with you, just playing devil's advocate).
Really, the only categorization issue that I'm adamant about is that Pluto-Charon is called a binary. The Pluto-Charon barycentre is not inside Pluto, therefore Charon is not rotating around Pluto, the two are corotating around a common point of space between them. That's a binary.
The barycenter of the Sun-Jupiter system lies at 1.068 solar radii, outside the Sun. Do you think they should be called a binary?
Classic joke, but it obscures the fact that an actual solution to these jokes exists.
Uranus's Roman name is Caelus and since all the other planets use Roman rather than Greek deity names in English, there is no reason this name could not be adopted for the 7th planet.
I agree... but let's give a link, shall we?
6 on the left half is a side effect of the continued stupidity of staggered key columns.
He should have used a TypeMatrix as his base to work from.
No, there are four brothers. The youngest two are twins.
Long story but interesting: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus.
Venus's axial tilt is 177 degrees, that's about "not on the same side of the Ecliptic" as it could be.
first floor in British English = second floor to Americans, first floor in American English = ground floor to Brits.
Does this difference also occur in elevator controls?
I still have my PS1 (128KB) and PS2 (8MB) memory cards.
Decent rant, but he contradicts his own argument about how the USAF only likes sleek, fast air-to-air planes when he rambles on about how they loved the ugly, slow, air-to-ground F-117.
Plenty of Iraq pilots got shot down by missiles far beyond the 100miles range without even ever noticing the F-15 or F-16 that shot the missiles.
Bullshit.
The only operational US missile to have sort of range was the Phoenix, which was carried by neither the F-15 nor the F-16.
It was launched exactly twice in its service history on the F-14 with no hits scored.
2 factors come to mind:
Sports oriented vehicles often sacrifice Cd to obtain downforce, since top speed is not advertised as heavily or reached as easily in many modern designs.
Short body length vehicles have less space to adopt Cd optimized forms than longer vehicles. The larger Model S has a claimed 0.24 Cd.
The liberal Democrats of 2000 are not the liberal Democrats of 1940. Why didn't you call them neoliberals, you moron?
The fact that the core missions of Democrats and Republicans have varied wildly over the existence of both parties just shows how limiting and misleading the whole R/D
When Slashdot first gave me the option of disabling ads I had the same reaction...
"This site has ads?"
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