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Re: Space Thread
« Reply #1470 on: January 20, 2016, 09:26:15 pm »
Why did they name it planet X? That'll just end up confusing everybody. It should be named planet IX or just plain nine.
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« Reply #1471 on: January 20, 2016, 11:48:04 pm »
Well, it's not really the official name of said hypothetical planet, and the X is sort of in the algebraic sense, as in it stands for whatever the planet's real name would be. Also, and I'm not completely sure on this, I think the planet X thing came about when people noticed oddities about the orbits of Neptune and Uranus, which implied the existence of another huge planet (Pluto being far too small to account for those oddities).
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« Reply #1472 on: January 20, 2016, 11:50:34 pm »
the oddities were due to mathematical error though.
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« Reply #1473 on: January 20, 2016, 11:52:36 pm »
But that's how the term "Planet X" came about, I think. From those errors
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Re: Space Thread
« Reply #1474 on: January 20, 2016, 11:54:28 pm »
I propose Kronos.

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« Reply #1475 on: January 21, 2016, 12:28:34 am »
I think we should call it Pluto Major.
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« Reply #1476 on: January 21, 2016, 01:49:22 am »
It should be called Mutunus Tutunus. Either that or Caligula.
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« Reply #1477 on: January 21, 2016, 02:00:13 am »
Yeah, I don't think they'll name a planet after a divine penis.
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Re: Space Thread
« Reply #1478 on: January 21, 2016, 04:04:10 am »
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« Reply #1479 on: January 21, 2016, 05:41:49 am »
And in fairness, there are a couple planetoids out there bigger than Pluto. Mostly not by very much, and on pretty weird orbits too.

If it turns out to be there, I do approve Chronos/Kronos.
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« Reply #1480 on: January 21, 2016, 08:15:18 am »
Some dick heads will insist it already has a name and is either Hercolubus or Nibiru or some other stupid shit. Oh God please let no one call it Melancholia, that movie sucked really hard and failed as both drama and science fiction.

Chronos/Kronos is fine, Kronus would be too inviting to Necrons and Tau so is a big No in my book  :P

If we already have Uranus, why not have Urectum as well?
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« Reply #1481 on: January 21, 2016, 08:35:07 am »
We should just reinstate Pluto and call the tenth planet X.  Just, X.
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« Reply #1482 on: January 21, 2016, 08:41:36 am »
Quote from: TheBiggerFish on January 21, 2016, 08:35:07 am
We should just reinstate Pluto and call the tenth planet X.  Just, X.

So we just ignore Eris and all the other trans-neptunian objects found?
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« Reply #1483 on: January 21, 2016, 08:42:51 am »
Oh, I don't even know.
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Re: Space Thread
« Reply #1484 on: January 21, 2016, 08:56:12 am »
And why some ilustrations show the planet as if its orbiting between two stars??? That's only gonna add more confusion fuel into the mix.

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Quote from: Mech#4 on February 07, 2014, 07:54:45 am
I'm curious as to how a tank would evolve. Would it climb out of the primordial ooze wiggling it's track-nubs, feeding on smaller jeeps before crawling onto the shore having evolved proper treds?
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