Cancer Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 2 minutes ago, Pariah said: I kind of want to throw this at my Astronomy students at the end of the term and see what they do.... But Uranus is tipped sideways! Shouldn't we retain the only rotationally diverse planet we have? Surely there'll be lawsuits? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 Yes we should Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 34 minutes ago, Bazza said: More Plutos. Make Pluto huge and give it a ring. Multiple Plutos?! Are you mad, man? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 Haumea is a plutoid and it has a ring, and moons. It's not huge, but it rotates rather rapidly and is probably rotationally distorted. What more do you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 My six-year-old loves Haumea. But Pluto is still his favorite dwarf planet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 Doesn't Jupiter already have a ring system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 A hoop, really. Y'know -- for kids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Ternaugh said: Doesn't Jupiter already have a ring system? The mouse-over text says the same thing. (And yes, it does, but you can't see it from Earth.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 22, 2020 Report Share Posted January 22, 2020 Yes, all the big planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) have ring systems. Jupiter & Neptune's were discovered by spacecraft as they flew through each system. Saturn's was discovered centuries back. Uranus's was discovered from Earth using occultation methods in the 1980s, IIRC. Only Saturn's can be detected directly from Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Oldest known asteroid strike may have ended Snowball Earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 We need to add Mogo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 13 hours ago, Pariah said: Multiple Plutos?! Are you mad, man? Okay that does it...every Planet except Earth is now Pluto-ised. Do Saturn is now a big Pluto with Saturn’s Rings. Jupiter is now a really big Pluto with Jupiter’s famous red spot . Etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Technically, if everything got Pluto-sized there would be no planets in this solar system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 A waste of space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Quote A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. attributed to Thomas Carlyle, when looking up at the stars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Sounds like a fun guy at parties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 I prefer the Jack Burton perspective: "Well, you see I'm not saying that I've been everywhere and I've done everything. But I do know it's a pretty amazing planet we live on here, and a man would have to be some kind of fool to think we're all alone in this universe." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 He's very hot on self-reflection, Mr Burton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 Observation: When there are multiple sections of the same lab class, it seems generally true that the students enrolled in the last-meeting section suffer an unusually high concentration of dimwits, slackers, functional brain-dead zombies, individuals offended by the concept they actually should do something, people whose universal response is "tl;dr", etc. As an instructor, not only should you be judgmental, but it behooves you to say that you have already exhausted your reserves of mercy, and therefore there will be none. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Memo to students: You do not want your instructor to have an unspoken but lasting label for you as "The tl;dr Kid". Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 And yet, even The tl;dr Kid isn't in the one pair of lab partners, of whom I genuinely wonder if they were intentionally trying to do everything incorrectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Today's lab quote: "Who do you trust more, you neighbors or your data?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Given the quality of the lab equipment and materials? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 28, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Given the quality of the other students in the lab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 Hmm. Maybe we should contemplate the student collider lab. Collide students together at high energies. But then there's all those human-subjects regs. Poo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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