No Pluto Nash? Don't you know he's THE MAN on the moon?


>> ^evilspongebob:

1 Battlefield Earth
2 Passion of the Christ
3 Superman 4
4 An Inconvenient Truth
5 Star Trek - Final Frontier
6 Indiana Jones and The Crystal Skull
7 A.I
8 Independence Day
9 Armageddon
10 What the Bleep do we Know?
>> ^csnel3:
when I list my top 10 science fiction movies this is one of them.
Has somebody already started a sift talk on "name your top 10 SciFi movies"?
#1- Alien
...... Discuss

>> ^quantumushroom:


Jobs bill? His Earness has spent 1 trillion and not made a dent in unemployment.
We need a Government GTFO Of The Way Bill.


Shit man, I asked you to comment so we could discuss the substance of the video.

No one cares about your contradictory, philosophical doctrinal rhetoric.

Obama is the fucking president. That's the executive branch of the government. He's like the top super boss of all the Police and Military.

Congress, The House & Senate, are the Legislative branch. They are responsible for proposing new bills that will become law.

You talk smack about "Libtards" or "Taxcrats" all the time

Tho when Crowley points out that Republicans [whom you love so dearly].. have done shit all to pass a bill which will:
1. protect businesses from imports
2. protect service jobs from outsourcing
3. establish a viable green sector industry producing solar panels or wind turbines for export

You don't say..

"Hey, Crowley makes a good point. I support these "Republican'ts" but they constantly sit on their hands. I'm tired of them."

or.

"Why can't these "Re-Pluto-cains" stop lining their pockets with tax cut bills and use there time to craft a bill that supports the individual worker & the individual American Dream!"

Answer. Not with "I hate government. Especially BLUE colored government" jibber jabber.

Answer like you're a single mother who has been unemployed for 99 weeks and now has to pay the remaining 20% of tuition costs that would have been covered by scholarship funds had they not been stolen by Republican Governors like Nathan Deal of Georgia.

Defend your Republican masters in their lack of pro-active legislation in putting American citizens back to work.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I do love a good dagwood dog. I think they call them pluto pups here as well. Never understood the difference.

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^AeroMechanical:
As a related note, someone told me that a hydrogen atom is similar in relative scale to the solar system, with the sun being the nucleus and the earth being the electron. I dunno if that's right or not, but it's pretty cool anyways. Maybe Pluto was the electron. Back when it was still a planet.

That interested me.. if you're interested;
Accepted radius of a proton (nucleus of hydrogen) is 0.88 10^-15 m
Radius of sun = 6.96 10^8 m
Divide radius of sun by radius of proton to give how many times bigger the sun is than the proton = 7.91 10^23
Radius of an orbiting electron = 0.0529 10^-9 m
Multiply orbital radius of electron by our scale factor = 4.2 10^13 m.
We're 1.4 10^11 m away from the sun (that's the value of an astronomical unit, it's as good as you can ask for when talking about orbital radius, cos it's not a circle). So it's out by a factor of 300ish. (cos i rounded here and there)
Pluto's orbit is very eccentric (more elliptical than circular), but at its closest, it's about 4.4 10^12 m away from the sun. Out by a factor of 10 there. Or getting close to a factor of 5 at its furthest. Getting close, but still a pretty big difference.
^ all subject to change when (not if) i notice i've dropped a clanger

A factor of 300 is actually not that bad when you're talking about such big numbers.

>> ^AeroMechanical:

As a related note, someone told me that a hydrogen atom is similar in relative scale to the solar system, with the sun being the nucleus and the earth being the electron. I dunno if that's right or not, but it's pretty cool anyways. Maybe Pluto was the electron. Back when it was still a planet.


That interested me.. if you're interested;
Accepted radius of a proton (nucleus of hydrogen) is 0.88*10^-15 m
Radius of sun = 6.96*10^8 m
Divide radius of sun by radius of proton to give how many times bigger the sun is than the proton = 7.91*10^23

Radius of an orbiting electron = 0.0529*10^-9 m
Multiply orbital radius of electron by our scale factor = 4.2*10^13 m.

We're 1.4*10^11 m away from the sun (that's the value of an astronomical unit, it's as good as you can ask for when talking about orbital radius, cos it's not a circle). So it's out by a factor of 300ish. (cos i rounded here and there)

Pluto's orbit is very eccentric (more elliptical than circular), but at its closest, it's about 4.4*10^12 m away from the sun. Out by a factor of 10 there. Or getting close to a factor of 5 at its furthest. Getting close, but still a pretty big difference.

^ all subject to change when (not if) i notice i've dropped a clanger

I remember when i was a kid, we watched a film in school from the 60's that demonstrated the solar system to scale. There was the sun, which was represented by a big circle about 20 feet across or more, and to place the earth (represented by a baseball), they had to get in a car and drive for a while to place it properly.... as best as I can recall, it was probably something like a mile or two away.

I thought that was pretty cool. That video has to be around somewhere...

As a related note, someone told me that a hydrogen atom is similar in relative scale to the solar system, with the sun being the nucleus and the earth being the electron. I dunno if that's right or not, but it's pretty cool anyways. Maybe Pluto was the electron. Back when it was still a planet.

Na, Pluto had it coming.

I've seen him do it before. In this particular video, he turns that woman's question about the BP oil spill into a case for studying the stars. That's not at all what she asked. In fact, she was agreeing with him that the study of astronomy has real practical world applications. She wanted to know how this applied to cleaning up the oil spill.. and instead of addressing her earnestness, he used it to make a point I've heard him make several times before.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^Trancecoach:
as good as this is, he's got a bad habit of bending what other people are saying in order to speak to the talking points he already has in mind.

Don't see where that happened...you're probably just mad about Pluto

>> ^Trancecoach:

as good as this is, he's got a bad habit of bending what other people are saying in order to speak to the talking points he already has in mind.


Don't see where that happened...you're probably just mad about Pluto

Pluto looks kinda like an intro to 3d studio max.

I don't normally lol, but that got me, lol!

In reply to this comment by Yogi:
>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Ya, I my memory was wrong anyway...it is 64AU or 9,574,272,000,000 meters.
Nerd update: Which is over twice the distance to Neptune, placing it past Pluto near Eris.
>> ^Yogi:
I had to Google that.
2,243,970,000,000 meters


This is the last time I let you make me look like a Fool GeeSus! THE LAST TIME!!!

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Ya, I my memory was wrong anyway...it is 64AU or 9,574,272,000,000 meters.
Nerd update: Which is over twice the distance to Neptune, placing it past Pluto near Eris.
>> ^Yogi:
I had to Google that.
2,243,970,000,000 meters


This is the last time I let you make me look like a Fool GeeSus! THE LAST TIME!!!

Ya, I my memory was wrong anyway...it is 64AU or 9,574,272,000,000 meters.

Nerd update: Which is over twice the distance to Neptune, placing it past Pluto near Eris.

>> ^Yogi:

I had to Google that.
2,243,970,000,000 meters

They will never forgive him for Pluto

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/02/best-view-yet-of-pluto-shows-rapidly-changing-surface/

By my calculations, if you were to by tacos from taco bell with that amount of money, and you were to stack them lengthwise, they would span 150au...roughly 3 times the distance to Pluto on its furthest point...or roughly 30au outside of the heliopause (the magnetic end of the sun, what one could really call the end of the solar system). I will check the math on that...but I think I am right.


Edit: I must of multipled when I should of divided...it is really about 24au...which puts it just slightly pasted Uranus...coincidence, I think not.