What do you think pluto not being a planet?
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Well technically it shouldn't be a planet. It's too small, smaller than all the other planets. I think I seen somewhere it's even smaller than our moon, am I right??
In my opinion, it is just a game of astronomy. It does not make any sense.
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| In my opinion, it is just a game of astronomy. It does not make any sense. |
I agree. Who cares if it is called a "planet" or something else. It is there and that is what it matters.
well, for me I find it funny, to have learn when I was small that we had a planet call pluto and that after some many years they decide that it is not a planet, I just find it strange and sad at the same time.
But there are a lot of examples, when I was small they were talking that the protons and neutrons they can not be divided and then after some years they talk about the quarks. So we should get used to these kind of things
But there are a lot of examples, when I was small they were talking that the protons and neutrons they can not be divided and then after some years they talk about the quarks. So we should get used to these kind of things
Planet or not, it's just Pluto. Btw. my friends were in Prague and they told me that voting was a comedy:)
Just when we thought it was getting smaller, the hole in the ozone layer has reached record proportions.
Between 21 and 30 September, the average area of the hole reached 27.5 million square kilometres, according to scientists monitoring ozone levels over the South Pole using NASA's Aura satellite and balloon-borne instruments. This marks an increase of roughly 3.9 million square kilometres from last year.
The blip is due to colder-than-average stratospheric temperatures in the preceding months, explains atmospheric scientist Paul Newman at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Although human production of substances that damage the ozone layer has dropped, the gases are still at peak levels in the stratosphere, and lower temperatures enhance the reactions that produce ozone-depleting chlorine and bromine. We won't see the effects of the drop until about 2024 because the gases have such a long lifetime, says Newman.
"The good news is that human activity isn't making the hole any worse," says Newman. "But we are vulnerable to changes in the weather and that's bad news for people living in the southern hemisphere."
Between 21 and 30 September, the average area of the hole reached 27.5 million square kilometres, according to scientists monitoring ozone levels over the South Pole using NASA's Aura satellite and balloon-borne instruments. This marks an increase of roughly 3.9 million square kilometres from last year.
The blip is due to colder-than-average stratospheric temperatures in the preceding months, explains atmospheric scientist Paul Newman at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Although human production of substances that damage the ozone layer has dropped, the gases are still at peak levels in the stratosphere, and lower temperatures enhance the reactions that produce ozone-depleting chlorine and bromine. We won't see the effects of the drop until about 2024 because the gases have such a long lifetime, says Newman.
"The good news is that human activity isn't making the hole any worse," says Newman. "But we are vulnerable to changes in the weather and that's bad news for people living in the southern hemisphere."
So scientists at Duke have supposedly developed an invisibility cloak and successfully cloaked a copper rod....wtf? Does anyone know anything about this?
It was on MSN news/technology report. Pretty straight science, actually. Might want to check the archives about a wek ago. They think that hiding something from visible light is within our grasp! What will we able to do next??
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