@CuriosityonX Correction: I meant to say that bits of debris don't deserve to be called moons.
Dwarf planet should be seen as a classification of planet like gas giant.
@CuriosityonX Pluto has more right to be called a planet than rough bits of debris like most of Jupiter's 95 moons.
The IAU screwed up. They reckoned there'd be thousands of Plutos in the Kuiper Belt but only a few have been found, or will ever be found.
Meet Pluto.
For decades, it held its place as the ninth planet — until 2006, when scientists reclassified it as a dwarf planet and bumped it off the list. But Pluto? It just kept doing its thing, looping around the Sun exactly as it always had. Pluto doesn't worry about labels. Be like Pluto.
@wisdomXplorer Human emotionality
AI will probably develop its own emotions, or something equivalent, but every species has its own kind of emotionality.
@TheExtremeMusi1 Andy West from Dixie Dregs on Hereafter
Prakash John on Lou Reed's Intro to Sweet Jane
Tony Levin on King Crimson's Thela Hun Jingeet and Sleepless
Mike Howlett from Gong on Wingful of Eyes
Jaco on Joni Mitchell's cover of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
A 75-year-old American millionaire hunter, Ernie Dosio, died after being trampled by a group of elephants during a safari in Africa.
The incident occurred when the animals felt threatened by the presence of the group in the jungle of Gabon.
@NightSkyNow Yes, at present I am communing with a small rocky planet orbiting a red dwarf star in the Andromeda galaxy. The planet, who is also capable of communing with the universe told me, "Watch out, we're coming!"
If you believe this, I have a cheap bridge to sell you.
@fandompulse No, he's wrong. ST was progressive but it rarely directly pushed politics like SFA and, when it did, it failed.
ST was actual science fiction. SFA is a queer sitcom dressed in sci fi clothing.
Robert Picardo on how Star Trek was always woke:
“Long before the term existed, Star Trek's heart was ‘woke’ & even though that word has been hijacked & made a cudgel to insult, to ridicule & - at the toxic extremes of social media - to justify prejudice & racism, Star Trek's heart is strong & still beating for those listening.”
Does he have a point?
Spanish matador admits he can't sleep or eat after bull spears him right up the bum in excruciating arena goring
Morante de la Puebla, 46, was knocked down and gored by a 512kg bull named Clandestino during a fight at Seville's Maestranza arena on April 20.
The horn caused a 10cm wound that perforated the back wall of his rectum and partially damaged his anal sphincter muscles.
He needed more than two hours of complex surgery to clean the wound, repair the rectal wall and reconstruct the sphincter before being put on IV nutrition in hospital.
In a video from his bed the matador said "The truth is, I'm in a lot of pain" and admitted he's had "a pretty normal night of little sleep" with zero appetite.
He described it as "without a doubt, the most painful goring ever" and is now just hoping to get through it with patience.
@AstronomyVibes The event horizon doesn't matter unless you are a photon moving at light speed.
Black holes bring death long before you are even close to the event horizon.
🚫 DON’T CROSS THIS LINE IN SPACE — OR YOU MAY NEVER RETURN…
There is a hidden border around black holes where escape becomes impossible. If anything crosses it, gravity pulls it deeper and deeper. Even light cannot get out. Far away, you would look like you are slowly fading and stretching because gravity bends light. But inside, the fall would feel normal.
What happens beyond this line is still unknown. Some think it could be the end of everything, while others believe it may hide a new cosmic mystery. No one knows the truth yet.
@Geniustechw The right way is to get the police to arrest them and fine them.
There should also be legal recourse to claim losses from these protesters for lost time and aggravation.
@MichaelButtonX They probably didn't all start at once. The smaller earlier prototypes of farming would have been demolished by weathering etc.
Just as the Egyptians with their architecture didn't emerge from hunter gatherer societies, but those that have left no discernible evidence.
We teach that agriculture 'began' in the Fertile Crescent.
But it also began independently in China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica, and the Andes - all at roughly the same time.
Why did everyone suddenly start farming at once, after 290,000 years of not doing so?
@NolePete@DaveMacLachlan1 If I had more characters I might have included more! I forgot the other great Purdie shuffle track, Babylon Sisters (great lyrics too).
My favourite Dan albums are Countdown to Ecstasy, Katy Lied and the Royal Scam. So good.