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  • ToadTheMushroomToadTheMushroom Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Mysst wrote: »
    Yeah, I was debating whether to point that out or not. Weight isn't mass.

    I know this.

    But density has no bearing on how much mass something has, unless volume is constant.

    Weight is a product of gravitational attraction and mass.

    I was showing how the density of the planet doesnt matter if it is fucking enormous. Maybe I should have phrased it better. I think it is pretty clear I know what I am talking about and you should have assumed my error was grammatical, not scientific.

    To correct I would have gone into more detail, but for a simple punchier explanation I went with an albeit incorrect analogy.

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    There is too much science in this thread.

    We need more crazy alien talk, like these guys:

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    What weighs more

    a Buick LeSabre

    or a boxcar made out of balsa wood

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    Hey guys which weighs more a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers!
    The trap is set!

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Which weighs more, shut up, or shut up?

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    scared to answer...

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    what weighs more

    in the butt butt butt

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    The jovian moons are fuckawesome though. They are more interesting than most of the rest of the solar system. We can't do fuck to mars because the solar wind will just strip away any atmosphere we try and put back -- the planets core is long since dead. The jovian moons on the other hand are protected by the largest magnetic field we know about -- its tail stretches all the way to Saturn's Orbit.

    Plus 3 of the four bigguns has water, and Europa may have life. Jupiter supplies all the hydrogen and other gasses we could ever want for fuel, and we could extract oxygen, fuel and life-giving fluid from the ice of the moons. If we ever go interstellar, there is no doubt in my mind Jupiter will be our launching pad.

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  • RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    Which weighs more, shut up, or shut up?

    ur mom duz lol

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ALIENS FROM THE 80s!

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    butt ways mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ur mom duz lol

    my momz dead fag

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    Which weighs more, shut up, or shut up?

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    space is big

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    No way.

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  • HomelessHomeless Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    like, way

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    No, I mean that picture Wrench posted.

    I don't buy it.

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  • ToadTheMushroomToadTheMushroom Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    1149047899_millionaire_idiot.jpg

    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaaa

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    1149047899_millionaire_idiot.jpg

    I hope that's a photoshop

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Just because it's fake doesn't make its less right.

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote: »
    No, I mean that picture Wrench posted.

    I don't buy it.


    I thought so too, but I was just kind of left confused as to why someone would make that...

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Just because it's fake doesn't make its less right.

    fucking public schools teaching me bullshit

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Also, fun fact: Jupiter can't get any larger (physically). Even if Saturn were to crash into it, it would get smaller and more dense, not larger. More than likely turn into a Brown Giant.

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  • AHH!AHH! Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    ah my god

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  • J. GrantJ. Grant Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote: »

    YOU WIN A FREE CAT

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Framling wrote: »

    You can tell by the pixels.

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  • Dangerou-DaveDangerou-Dave __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2007
    "Ms. Wheeler actually did quite well on the program, earning 32 thousand pounds for her efforts."

    Yay

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  • JordynJordyn Really, Commander? Probing Uranus. Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    J. Grant we already have two cats.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    "Ms. Wheeler actually did quite well on the program, earning 32 thousand pounds for her efforts."

    Yay

    There's a fat joke in there somewhere.

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  • J. GrantJ. Grant Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Shurakai wrote: »
    Also, fun fact: Jupiter can't get any larger (physically). Even if Saturn were to crash into it, it would get smaller and more dense, not larger. More than likely turn into a Brown Giant.

    You totally forgot the monoloiths, retard.

    h_in_2001_monolith_03.jpg

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Jordyn wrote: »
    J. Grant we already have two cats.


    You can always just take the cat and sell it to a scrapyard for parts.

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  • MonkeybombMonkeybomb Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    J. Grant wrote: »
    You totally forgot the monoloiths, retard.

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    We shall call this new sun Lucifer.

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Saturn could do it a hell of alot easier than monoliths. Plus, it would be a brighter star since it would have more mass. Humanity totally needs that diamond at the core however. Diamond everything = awesome.

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  • IsornIsorn Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tfs1t-2rrOM

    This video makes one feel unimportant.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    Monkeybomb wrote: »
    You can always just take the cat and sell it to a scrapyard for parts.

    Hell, I'm looking for a replacement left rear leg for my cat after it got dinged up in a minor accident but I'd prefer to get a used leg in very good condition instead of buying a new one.

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  • NucshNucsh Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    I find it exciting that our solar system is pansy-assed compared to others in the universe

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  • ToadTheMushroomToadTheMushroom Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    Monkeybomb wrote: »
    We shall call this new sun Lucifer.

    Actually it's official name is Nemesis.

    Its a serious theory put forward by some guy at Berkely, among others, that our sun is part of a twin system, only they are very far apart.

    Basically it goes on the fact that every 26 million years there is a large extinction level event on earth. Ice ages or whatnot. The idea is that its caused by comets which are knocked off course by our second sun.

    The only problem is, until now, no astronomer has ever looked that distance from the earth. Either you look at planets, very close, or stars and galaxies which are hugely far away. So they are gonna get on it. It would apparently only take a few years to do.

    Kinda creepy when he explains it.

    Gimme a sec I'll dig out the google video of him explaining it.


    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=454509298366027887&q=physics+10

    This is the video I think.

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  • ShurakaiShurakai Registered User regular
    edited February 2007
    We would probably notice a star that is less than 4 Light years away, but I'll give the video a shot and see.

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  • J. GrantJ. Grant Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2007
    U WANNA TALK ABOUT STAR POWER
    DUDE BRITNEY SHAVED HER HED

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