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starCaliber
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posted 07-11-2003 02:23 PM
today i found the oldest-known bagel in my kitchen. it was moldy tho :-(
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10,000Lb.Snorlax
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posted 07-11-2003 02:58 PM
All the gaseous planets in our solar system have a hard, frozen, solid gas-ground, don't they? Or is it just a ball of gas gas? Every place refers to the gaseous planets as just "gas" -- but there's probably CO2 oceans and Nitrogen rivers and stuff too. That's my theory. Wow 121 planets. I wonder what aliens look like.
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GenyaA310
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posted 07-12-2003 03:17 AM
Yes scientists did. And instead of focusing on the cure for some disease or how to colonize space, they find nothing that is at all useful. All they discover is something that racks our brains with unanswerable questions about the universe. So this is what our tax money goes to...
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Rolken
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posted 07-12-2003 03:50 AM
All the gaseous planets in our solar system have a hard, frozen, solid gas-ground, don't they?
Yeah... that's why it bucks the convention to discover one that formed so quickly. No one knows how the core could form that fast.
Wow 121 planets. I wonder what aliens look like.
I wouldn't hold my breath. There's a lot of nasty stuff that can assure life never gets off the ground. Cosmic rays, insufficient element balances, orbital disturbances... we're in a relatively calm position and we still get mass extinctions every few hundred million years.
It just sounds wrong...
That's why science relies on validation instead of knee-jerk responses.
And instead of focusing on the cure for some disease or how to colonize space, they find nothing that is at all useful.
I beg your pardon. Nobody thought nonEuclidean geometry mattered until we found out it describes the space we inhabit, nor the interconversion of magnetism and electricity until we learned to pover things with it. And many people would not consider space colonization useful. Therein lies the trouble: how do you arbitrate useful research? Science has often been revolutionized by unlikely theories.
I really don't get how you see researching planets as irrelevant to colonization.
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