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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 01:59PM


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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 02:05PM

How many parsecs does it take to get from Titan to Uranus?

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 02:08PM

Uh ... you do know that a parsec is a unit of length, right ?

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 02:09PM

Yeah, and I knew Stars Wars had screwed up, but I still enjoyed the movie.

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Posted by: bradley ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 11:35AM

Depends how hot the engines are running.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 03:50PM

And you, Jesus, are a true singularity--or mass hole, as I like to think of it.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 04:49PM

Don't worry, I'm sure there's a Tik Tok hack that will get rid of those unsightly rings.

However, getting rid of EOD might prove challenging! Unless somehow his singularity gets sucked into his mass hole. But I don't know that I would wish that on anyone.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 05:32PM

As much as I hate to admit this, the world would be worse off without EOD.

He is for the rest of us sort of like Alabama is for states.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 06:40PM

Alarbamie?

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 06:51PM

Yes.

Whenever people start to think that their state really sucks, they look at Alabama and feel better.

It's an invaluable service!

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Posted by: blindguy ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 11:45PM

..."Mississippi Goddam," for that honor?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqWnF-HD1M

(AM radio never played this one).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2023 11:46PM by blindguy.

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Posted by: Soft Machine ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 12:53AM

Makes me cry every time. Viva Nina!

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 01:11AM

Yes, I thought about that choice when I wrote the post. I ended up using Neil Young's Alabama, ". . . a wheel in the ditch and a wheel on the track."

But serendipitously, toward the end of my workout later in the day I switched from Peter Tosh to Nina Simone as I wound down. It was the 1994 Very Best of Nina Simone and had some wonderful music.

There are a ton of her pieces, Tom, that break my heart. One of my great regrets in life is not having heard her when she was living in Paris. I was living in Europe and it wasn't that far away. . .

Anyway, the truth is she was probably on my mind at the gym because I had considered the Alabama/Mississippi choice earlier. So probably not fortuitous after all.

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Posted by: dagny ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 11:54AM

>He is for the rest of us sort of like Alabama is for states.

Ha! When I lived in Alabama, we always had Mississippi to down on. At least EOD isn't Mississippi.

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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 04:45PM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Uranus

The rings of Uranus are intermediate in complexity between the more extensive set around Saturn and the simpler systems around Jupiter and Neptune. The rings of Uranus were discovered on March 10, 1977, by James L. Elliot, Edward W. Dunham, and Jessica Mink. William Herschel had also reported observing rings in 1789; modern astronomers are divided on whether he could have seen them, as they are very dark and faint.[1]


By 1977, nine distinct rings were identified. Two additional rings were discovered in 1986 in images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, and two outer rings were found in 2003–2005 in Hubble Space Telescope photos. In the order of increasing distance from the planet the 13 known rings are designated 1986U2R/ζ, 6, 5, 4, α, β, η, γ, δ, λ, ε, ν and μ. Their radii range from about 38,000 km for the 1986U2R/ζ ring to about 98,000 km for the μ ring. Additional faint dust bands and incomplete arcs may exist between the main rings. The rings are extremely dark—the Bond albedo of the rings' particles does not exceed 2%. They are probably composed of water ice with the addition of some dark radiation-processed organics.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 06:41PM

I wonder if Gladys was at all shocked by these details?

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 06:58PM

Scandalized is more like it, seeing those Greek letters openly carousing with cardinal numbers.

It's past time for the GOP to prohibit such ungodly conduct.

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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 08:19PM


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Posted by: Beth ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 07:41PM


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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 07:42PM

It looks very shiny in photographs!

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Posted by: Beth ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 07:45PM

The tweezing, tho

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 08:07PM

Guys, this is starting to read like an El Gato thread. . .

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 08:24PM

The temptation was great to address my comment to him rather than to you...  But you're less of a curmudgeon, so you won!

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: April 11, 2023 10:58PM

Just as long as you heed his advice and stop "succumbing to madness."

That's all I ask.

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Posted by: ookami ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 12:31AM

How many times was Uranus probed before they noticed the rings?

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Posted by: Beth ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 01:49AM

Ask Gladys Lot

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Posted by: Honest TB[long] ( )
Date: April 12, 2023 06:32PM

I am waiting to see what the Brethren say on this subject so I can know what I'm supposed to believe.

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