pinecone Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 On 9/15/2021 at 7:31 AM, assault said: Australia is preparing for war against its largest trading partner.Australia to get nuclear-powered submarines The best thing you can say about the current government is that they would completely mismanage any such conflict, and we would lose quickly. It is really just in case the Emus learn SCUBA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted September 19, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 The problem with Vantablack is that it's unavailable. One artist bought the exclusive rights to it, and he's not sharing. That's what prompted other people to make their own versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 On 9/16/2021 at 7:26 AM, Pariah said: The other big question: Is is possible to sustain a human being on one acre of land? Pretty much yes, though it would require work. The problem is we need specialists for modern living, so they need to be substidised........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 10 hours ago, Cancer said: Some tabletop figures cry out for such stuff, don't they? I've seen a video where someone paints miniatures in Mosou Black. They look like shadows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Whoopsie! He found forgotten letters from the '70s in his attic. Turns out they were missives from the Unabomber pinecone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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death tribble Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Two deaths significant for the British Actor John Challis dies aged 79 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58617114 Footballer Jimmy Greaves dies aged 81 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58613988 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 19, 2021 Report Share Posted September 19, 2021 Found more Pluto drama. https://news.yahoo.com/why-universe-annoyed-astronomer-pushing-035731102.html Cygnia and Hermit 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 22 hours ago, unclevlad said: But would this *increase* the need for heating in winter? Granted, that would likely be a lesser factor down here where summer cooling is the much greater concern. (Barring freak weather, anyway.) Aha! So we launch a sneak attack against Russia in winter and paint bomb the entire country. Combined with an EMP pulse to shut down their electrical grid, they'll freeze solid inside their shelters! Diabolical! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Pattern Ghost said: Found more Pluto drama. https://news.yahoo.com/why-universe-annoyed-astronomer-pushing-035731102.html I find the rush to declare categorical definitions and similar labeling conventions misguided in the face of rapidly expanding knowledge. And while I never bothered to get myself nominated into the IAU, that was my opinion then and it remains my opinion now. I can see some justification with the de-planetization of Pluto but it struck me as "unseemly haste" at the time, and I think the community should take heed of the public confusion back then and sit back and wait for more and better understanding before going with more jargon wrangling. Edited September 20, 2021 by Cancer Pattern Ghost, archer and tkdguy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Pattern Ghost said: Found more Pluto drama. https://news.yahoo.com/why-universe-annoyed-astronomer-pushing-035731102.html From the article: "The scientist championing the naming of a new ninth planet, Caltech" Personally, I think that'd be a great name for the ninth planet. Anyway, I've been under the impression the fact that Pluto was much smaller than previously thought had a large role to play in its delisting (early telescopes were detecting both Pluto and its very large moon Charon together and astronomers attributed the size and mass of both to Pluto alone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Well, a less charitable view: Having successfully campaigned to have an object discovered by a 20th Century American demoted from planet-hood, he now wants to elevate a different object discovered by a 20/21st Century American into planet-hood. And he, not coincidentally, is the discoverer of that latter object. Lawnmower Boy, Pariah and assault 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Cancer said: And he, not coincidentally, is the discoverer of that latter object. THAT is the point at which I practice my Spock Brows. Duke Bushido 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 2 hours ago, Cancer said: Well, a less charitable view: Having successfully campaigned to have an object discovered by a 20th Century American demoted from planet-hood, he now wants to elevate a different object discovered by a 20/21st Century American into planet-hood. And he, not coincidentally, is the discoverer of that latter object. "Not coincidentally"? Boy, are you a cynic! /sarcasm assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Pluto was always a planet. 😛 Duke Bushido and tkdguy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Technically there was no official definition of what a planet was until 2006. So you could really make the argument that Pluto was never a planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 4 hours ago, Bazza said: Pluto was always a planet. 😛 And Han shot first! Hermit and pinecone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Gillian Anderson just won an Emmy for playing Margaret Thatcher in the Crown. And yes I am gloating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 On 9/15/2021 at 10:31 AM, assault said: Australia is preparing for war against its largest trading partner.Australia to get nuclear-powered submarines The best thing you can say about the current government is that they would completely mismanage any such conflict, and we would lose quickly. Man, the French are TICKED assault 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 7 hours ago, Bazza said: Pluto was always a planet. 😛 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Supposedly, more deaths than births in Alabama in 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 Dying to own the libs. Pariah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 In the far-future setting of my "Magozoic" campaign, Pluto and the rest of the Kuiper Belt Objects are collectively called the Palisade of Night. Mythically, the boundary between the sane and sunlit realm of mortals and the unknowable horrors of the Far Realms. The Palisade has its own spiritual realm in the mystical cosmology, and its own gods. Dean Shomshak Lawnmower Boy, Pattern Ghost, Hermit and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 I sometimes place my Krypton and Skrull homeworld homages "far beyond Uranus", skipping the Pluto/Neptune issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted September 20, 2021 Report Share Posted September 20, 2021 12 hours ago, Bazza said: Pluto was always a planet. 😛 That's goofy.... 5 hours ago, Hermit said: Man, the French are TICKED They shouldn't have tried to charge the Aussies a cool million dollars to change the design blueprints over from the proposed subs using incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs. That kind of price gouging will always upset a customer, even if you're delivering on time...which the French weren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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