Non-IT News Thread
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@scottalanmiller I think it has to do with how far out it is.... its estimate closest point to the sun is 5x further out then pluto.
It's also possible on a different plane than the rest of our planets. that's what the models I saw yesterday suggested.
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Pluto is, makes sense that it would be.
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@Dashrender It would pretty much have to be... a planet the size they are suggesting can't form that far out (assuming theories are correct on how planets form), which means it formed closer and gravity from another star passing by most likely flung it out that far and changed its plane.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@Dashrender It would pretty much have to be... a planet the size they are suggesting can't form that far out (assuming theories are correct on how planets form), which means it formed closer and gravity from another star passing by most likely flung it out that far and changed its plane.
Interesting, didn't read that as an explanation. Though I suppose it makes sense.
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I read that on another news story about it somewhere else...
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This is what is in store for us in the next 24 hours or so. More snow at once than we've seen in years. Almost reminds me of when I was a kid. Now I'm just a bigger kid with bigger toys to play in the snow with. Lol Anywhere from 6-14 inches is what we keep hearing.
http://www.lex18.com/story/31016116/significant-winter-storm
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@Dashrender It would pretty much have to be... a planet the size they are suggesting can't form that far out (assuming theories are correct on how planets form), which means it formed closer and gravity from another star passing by most likely flung it out that far and changed its plane.
I read a little about this because my 7yo is all about space. She loved it. A mystery planet.
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@scottalanmiller said:
How the heck do we mistake Pluto for a planet for a century and miss a "real ninth planet?
![0_1453394361904_P9_KBO_orbits_labeled-NEWS-WEB[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/RPSL3R7.png)
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@coliver On the fullscale image you can barely see the orbits of the planets in the glow of the sun.
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@coliver On the fullscale image you can barely see the orbits of the planets in the glow of the sun.
Right, it is incomprehensible how much bigger this orbit is then the orbits of our known planets are. Although this is still a hypothesis from what I've seen... cool none-the-less.
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@coliver said:
@brianlittlejohn said:
@coliver On the fullscale image you can barely see the orbits of the planets in the glow of the sun.
Right, it is incomprehensible how much bigger this orbit is then the orbits of our known planets are. Although this is still a hypothesis from what I've seen... cool none-the-less.
Cool is an understatement!!!!
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Very cool, as there is basically no sunlight out there!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Very cool, as there is basically no sunlight out there!
I was just thinking it would be cool if someone had a graphic of what the sun would look like at furthest point of the orbit.
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It would, I'm sure, be a bit less bright than, say, Jupiter is for us.
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Gas in Michigan is down to $.479 per gallon!
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Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
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http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aA1DQnR_460s_v1.jpg
USA Today is huge.
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@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
I'm not really sure what you mean?
Assuming a standard value of $1, you're saying that gasoline today costs only $0.33?
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@Dashrender said:
@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
I'm not really sure what you mean?
Assuming a standard value of $1, you're saying that gasoline today costs only $0.33?
If the Cheapest price ever was X, current price (adjusted for standard currency) is .33X.
Take the cheapest price prior to now, and now we are one third of that.
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@mlnews said:
Gas is now 1/3rd the cheapest that it has ever been, in history. That's just 33% the lowest ever. That's crazy.
Fuel here is still about $1.899gal. not sure that really qualifies as 'cheap' .. definitely not as cheap as the fuel up north the other day..
