Conquer Club

starting a committee to investigate everything from UFOs to the Loch Ness Monster, etc.

2dimes wrote:The list started with negative things but ended..

starting a committee to investigate everything from UFOs to the Loch Ness Monster, etc.

That sounds pretty fun, unless they're just in an office and not going out to the field to take a look.

Re: Thing s I Don't Like About Trump

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the International Criminal Court (ICC), as established by the Rome Statute, has engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel.

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February 6, 2019
CLEMSON, South Carolina — August 24, 2006, was a day of infamy for those who grew up having learned that a far-out icy body in the solar system – Pluto – was the ninth and final planet in our solar system. It was on this day that the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted to demote Pluto from “planet” to “dwarf planet,” and the scientist who incited that change is coming to Clemson to speak about it.

Mike Brown, the Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, will be visiting Clemson University on Feb. 21 as part of the TIGERS ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker Series. Brown’s lecture, “Planet 9 from Outer Space,” will chronicle how his team’s discoveries led to the demotion of Pluto and the search for a new Planet 9.

Brown’s research specializes in the study of bodies at the edge of the solar system and it’s this line of inquiry that called into question, 14 years ago, how Pluto should be classified.

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted the much-loved Pluto from its position as the ninth planet from the Sun to one of five “dwarf planets.” The IAU had likely not anticipated the widespread outrage that followed the change in the solar system’s lineup. When the announcement was made (and even over 10 years later), people around the world objected to the planet’s demotion on principle, saying that it altered tradition and history, rather than engaging with the scientific reasoning. So, what was the IAU’s reason for demoting Pluto when it did? Why is Pluto no longer a planet?

The main event of the 2006 General Assembly of the IAU, the proposal that would come to demote Pluto, was a defining moment for the rest of the solar system as well. Fiercely debated by the members of the union, the resolution that was passed officially defined the term planet. What was once a loose word used to describe a large object within the solar system was now specific: planets are celestial objects large enough to be made rounded by their gravitational orbit around the Sun and to have shooed away neighboring planetary objects and debris. Pluto is now classified as a dwarf planet because, while it is large enough to have become spherical, it is not big enough to exert its orbital dominance and clear the neighborhood surrounding its orbit.

Nothing is constant, except change.

ConfederateSS wrote:------[size=150]
--------- Most if not all of the Scientific Community in the 21st Century A.D...Are Brainwashed Liberals...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

jusplay4fun wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:------[size=150]
--------- Most if not all of the Scientific Community in the 21st Century A.D...Are Brainwashed Liberals...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

As one member of the Scientific Community, I am not one of those Brainwashed Liberals.

Again, ConfedSS is prone to hyperbole, like his buddy Saxi and that pee-rat.

Pack Rat wrote:

jusplay4fun wrote:

ConfederateSS wrote:------[size=150]
--------- Most if not all of the Scientific Community in the 21st Century A.D...Are Brainwashed Liberals...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

As one member of the Scientific Community, I am not one of those Brainwashed Liberals.

Again, ConfedSS is prone to hyperbole, like his buddy Saxi and that pee-rat.

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To be part of the scientific community, you would need to be rational, believe in facts, work well with others and have creative thinking.

I don't see how you fit in any community, except for some FASCIST CULT FOLLOWING CLUB. Or, a religious cult that preaches that Jesus was wrong and we have to go back to the good Ole days of the Old Testament.

by Pack Rat on Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:34 am

Fix your fukn poll! What about having been remarried 3 times, divorced 3 times and being single now,

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Pack Rat wrote:Attacking our NATO allies

Rewarding Putin for Crimes against Humanity in Ukraine

saxitoxin wrote:For the record, I'm not a Trump "fan" and there's a growing list of things I dislike about the new Administration. I still find it vastly preferable to Biden, however. I will let you know when the scales tip.

Here's my running list. I'll add to it.

1. The Gaza plan

2. Steven Miller (he screams through all his interviews)

3. Elon Musk (conman -- also, can he get his kid a babysitter instead of bringing him with him everywhere?)

4. The lunatics in the House GOP are now more crazy than the lunatics in the House Democrats. When Gaetz was the chief whacko he enforced a certain ceiling of lunacy among the backbenchers. Now it's every man for himself. Nancy Mace is talking about her sex life on the House floor. Anna Paulina Luna is starting a committee to investigate everything from UFOs to the Loch Ness Monster, etc.