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Yet Another Tenth Planet Discovery (!)
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Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-30 00:46|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I'll place my bet on glistening vibrafoam. The albedo sounds about right.
Posted by .com 2005-07-30 01:20||   2005-07-30 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 But Pluto isn't a planet, is it? Well, not according to the Rose Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.

What's going to happen to the planetary mnemonic now? My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas [Sizzling?] [2-Be-Sure?] [2-Much?]?
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-07-30 01:44||   2005-07-30 01:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Good! Now GITMO can be closed down...Islamofacist relocation to new planet(s) pending...
Posted by borgboy 2005-07-30 02:23||   2005-07-30 02:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Shhhh! This is where the dead Star Trek actors go.
Posted by Captain America 2005-07-30 02:30||   2005-07-30 02:30|| Front Page Top

#5 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope
Wipes tear, the big_Schmidt.
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-30 08:37||   2005-07-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the Tenth Planet is where the Cybermen come from.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-07-30 10:33||   2005-07-30 10:33|| Front Page Top

#7 .com-
I think that's glycerine vibrafoam. Cleans the whole system.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-07-30 14:10||   2005-07-30 14:10|| Front Page Top

#8 It's made of scrith.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-07-30 14:34|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-07-30 14:34|| Front Page Top

#9 It's made of scrith.

And was build by Pak protectors. (Paging Louis Wu, please call your office.)
Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan  2005-07-30 17:20||   2005-07-30 17:20|| Front Page Top

#10 But Pluto isn't a planet, is it? Well, not according to the Rose Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History.


1st scientist: "Gravity pulls objects together..."
2nd scientist: "No! You know nothing! Gravity sucks objects..."
Posted by Asedwich">Asedwich  2005-07-30 17:50||   2005-07-30 17:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm for kicking Pluto out of the planetary count. If you can't stay in the plane of the other planets, you get disqualified. Sounds like these scientists are finding a lot of big snowballs.

Ah, Louis Wu. With all the craptaculars at the movies nowadays, when is someone finally going to give Ringworld big-screen treatment?
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-07-30 18:03||   2005-07-30 18:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, the scifi channel is doing Ringworld, and will probably do the same to it that they did to (for instance) Riverworld, U. K. Leguin, and the last three years or so of Stargate...

I'm less than thrilled.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-07-30 18:27|| http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]">[http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-07-30 18:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Mizzou Mafia,

Are you one off the fine gents I talked with in the coffee house Sunday AM?

Enjoy this place.

I await the RingWorld movie. Think big! While at it the rest of Niven's "Known Space" is being denied the White Screen.

Niven and Jerry did a good job with Project Orion in one of their joint novel's: FootFall.

Oh, and should you ever be weighing my young son in Mizzou's journalism dept... Don't hold his old man's opinions against him. He is his own man.

Posted by 3dc 2005-07-30 18:34||   2005-07-30 18:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Ringworld, hell screw a movie and a SCIFI Channel bastardization of the story. Lets builds the real thing true Dyson "Sphere" or a Dyson shell.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-07-30 18:56||   2005-07-30 18:56|| Front Page Top

#15 Don't forget Freeman Dyson led Project Orion.

The sphere is more stable. Don't need the slip shoots.
Posted by 3dc 2005-07-30 19:14||   2005-07-30 19:14|| Front Page Top

#16 >Mizzou Mafia,

>Are you one off the fine gents I talked with in the coffee house Sunday AM?

No, but AzCat might be familiar with my moniker. I live in Tallinn, Estonia.

3dc, I left Ol' Mizzou's j-school in 2003. As a PhD student, Missourian sports editor, and instructor (J-200, New Media class). Would I have known your son?
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2005-07-30 19:17||   2005-07-30 19:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Let's remember that Niven adapted The Soft Weapon to the Star Trek cartoon series in the 1970s.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-07-30 21:49||   2005-07-30 21:49|| Front Page Top

#18 I've lost track. Where do these fit on the list of Holiest Sites in Islam?
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2005-07-30 23:31|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2005-07-30 23:31|| Front Page Top

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