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this video is amazing, made me feel like an atom.

Dan

Amazing. Sometimes we need reminding just how small we are. As another example, have a look at this for a new sense of scale:

http://rense.com/general72/size.htm (http://rense.com/general72/size.htm)

ive seen something like that before but without the extra suns. but again very cool :D

I guess it's Pluto we should all feel sorry for. Poor pluto:

http://www.ciuboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/poor_pluto.jpg (http://www.ciuboda.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/poor_pluto.jpg)

That video reminds me of "the powers of ten vid" we had in an astronomy class I took.

Has anyone read the complete Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Anywho, if you have you'll understand what I mean when I say the Universe as extrapolated from a piece of fairly cake (total perspective vortex). (To those who have not read this, in my opinion it's quite good; so share and enjoy!)

Poor Pluto indeed, but we musn't feel so sorry about a planitoid which can't even clear its own orbit! (Pish, Posh, who cares that Earth has the moon...)

http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/06.08.25.PlutoOutcast-X.gif (http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/06.08.25.PlutoOutcast-X.gif)

I prefered the shirt :D
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Other than that, I've seen the Veoh item :) Veoh is awesome!!!!

I love that shirt :lol:

I may seriously consider buying that....

Just found this video; I was left feeling very sorry for Pluto by the end of it. You'll need to scroll down a little once the page loads because the vid will have already started I think. It's only about a minute long:

http://www.samtsai.com/p468/world-biggest-star-planet-part-ii/ (http://www.samtsai.com/p468/world-biggest-star-planet-part-ii/)

holy hell thats kick ass :D

nice video dan B)

27 August 2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.

The Reasons:
1. The object must be in orbit around the Sun.
2. The object must be massive enough to be a sphere by its own gravitational force. More specifically, its own gravity should pull it into a shape of hydrostatic equilibrium.
3. It must have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

The evidence must have stacked against the poor little planetoid in the end. Poor Pluto. Presumably it's not spherical enough, and it does have a dodgy orbit, all skewiff and all over the place.  :ermm:

Actually, i just thought!  :woot: Earth isn't a perfect sphere either, but an "oblate spheroid" (whatever that means, slightly flattened at the poles I think). They must mean that the planet's own gravitational field should be strong enough to makes its surface relatively smooth. I wonder what Pluto looks like up close?

I'm planning to go there for my 65th birthday, so you're all welcome to hop along for the ride if you want  :whistling:

Actually I've been there a couple of times and it's not anything special. Nothing to do out there except fling kuiper belt objects at the eart.... I mean.... errr  :shifty:

Anyway I should be going now. :whistling:

Aha!!  :o  So it's you then! I knew someone was responsible. It was only a matter of time before we found out. One should exercise caution, lest one causes an Extinction Level Event...  :naugthy:

Some might say that would be a good thing, seeing as intelligent life has yet to develop on this blue-green marble.
(me thinks I am too pessimistic at times)

did you know, i thik it is Saturn, it spins so fast that its north and south poles heat up and have literaly dissapeared off of the planet leaviong them very flat

Really, that's fascinating.  B)  THe heating thing makes sense, but I have to say, the "poles disappearing" thing doesn't. NOrmally when we talk about a pole, we're referring to magnetic north or magnetic south. A planet can't have a magnetic field without poles (this would be like having a bar magnet with magnetic field lines severed at the end). Maybe it's true according to the definition of the geographic poles, but then again if the Earth is anything to go by, we would then say that the poles still exist, but are flattened. I could be wrong, but I don't think I am on this one. I'm quite intrigued about this one; time to consult the old astronomy book I think...  :innocent:

On a (slightly) different note:

http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf (http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5409/galaxy.swf)

That movie is amazing.... Ahhh the Meaning of Life.... so funny. Every sperm is sacred every sperm is great.... *cough*  :ermm:

Excellent

Ha ha, Dom now that's funny  :lol:. Maybe you should write a song.

He tried, only to find that Ozzy Osbourne had taken all his prospective titles.

song is awsome :D kind of sums up everything said in this thread lol IMHO

*Looks quizzically at Hippie and asks him to explain how it relates how the song relates to DN's newly admitted drinking problem*

When did *hic* I deeeevelope a dinking... errrr..... drinking *hic* problem :shifty:
 :lol:

Aaah, the college years. A time always to remember!  :innocent:

Yeah... we will have none of that (slaps second head). I am hard at work studying.... even despite the fact I just played flops vs mutant!

and wooped my ass

There's always time for gaming  :D

Meh, it was a good game! (of course it always helps when you win :sweatdrop:), but Mutant's just being kind.  :D

So true, Doc. (By the way, do you play online?)

I wish I could play online, but my CD drive is broken on this PC... actually, just thought. I've got a wireless USB device somewhere that might work on my other PC. Hmmm.  :shifty:  If I get it going, then I might be able to. Do FO players use gamespy?

Why don't you just use a virtual drive to play fleet ops?

I suppose I could try that. Never truly crossed my mind. Or maybe it did but I never noticed.