I believe Futurama established that the correct pronoun is "shklee".

My original post was meant to be more a dig at the title than at anything else. Most watches are worn in the manner I described rather than with subdermal magnets.

A lesser person might have just attached the iPod to a wristband, and worn that. Like an _actual_ watch.

The most common general term is "Planetary Geology". Most of my colleagues (IAAPS; PS="Planetary Scientist") don't usually use the planet-specific prefixes that often. It's much more common to say "Martian Geology" than to say "Areology", or "Lunar Geography" instead of "Selenography". I suppose that it's slightly inaccurate (given that "geo-" does technically mean "earth"), but it sounds much more natural to speak this way. There's also the problem that you'd need to modify each geo- term for each planetary body, and end up with "Enceladography" and "Iapetology". And what do we call the equipotential surface (geoid) on Vesta? "Vestoid" is already used for a class of asteroids.

In the US, dimes actually do say "ONE DIME". So if you don't already know that 1 dime = 10 cents, you can't tell from the coin. Obvious if you grew up with it, but I could easily imagine foreign visitors getting confused by that one.

No. If someone makes a claim, that person needs to back it up.

So that would eliminate many active missions. MESSENGER, for example,left the ground over seven years ago and is doing fantastic science, but has been in Mercury orbit less than a year. Cassini is still doing all kinds of stuff at Saturn, but it launched fifteen years ago.

Technically, man IS an ape, if by "ape" you mean a member of Superfamily Hominoidea. Since chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to anything else, any monophyletic clade must include humans. A clade of nonhuman apes would be paraphyletic.

But that would be socialism.

no one had warned them about the ridiculous mortality rate for Starfleet members wearing red shirts!

I actually tracked this once and I seem to recall that there was no statistically significant correlation between shirt color and mortality (on TOS at least). Lack of a first and/or last name was a far more significant risk factor.