Comments on: The Quickfire Round. https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/ Science, gaming, and all things in between. Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:05:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.36 By: depth386 https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-17131 Sat, 19 Apr 2014 05:56:01 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-17131 Stop hating on Pluto. The many moons situation is interesting, it’s almost like a “comet swarm” or disintegrated comet, but moon-ish size.

]]> By: The Asteroid Belt -- The Scientific Gamer The Scientific Gamer https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-1031 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:00:48 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-1031 [...] actually have mentioned collisional evolution before on here but it was rather in passing so you can be forgiven for missing it; in short, the long-term evolution of any belt-type [...]

]]> By: hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-767 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:11:24 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-767 It still unsettles me a bit when I teach a class of schoolchildren who have been taught from day one that Pluto Is Not A Planet. In theory they have a better grasp of that idea than I do.

(I saw your comment and was all like “What, I didn’t accidentally call it a planet *again*, did I?” I keep doing that despite everything. Cultural inertia is hard to stop.)

]]> By: Everblue https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-764 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:53:10 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-764 “Some things just don’t fit in a neat little box, you know”

I know. I just like saying it – it makes me feel all sciencey. You try it – Pluto Is Not A Planet!

(I just shouted it at the girl who sits next to me at work. She is pretending not to hear me. I will make her hear.)

]]> By: Adam Benton https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-763 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:45:11 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-763 Then we shall make a better box! With blackjack and hookers.

]]> By: hentzau https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-762 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:09:20 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-762 Nobody knows what the hell it is. Some things just don’t fit in a neat little box, you know?

(Pluto’s one of the few sciencey things I could legit be called an expert in, and the more I learned about it the more I realised it’s unlike anything else out there, even the other dwarf planets and the neighbouring KBOs.)

]]> By: Everblue https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-761 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:40:37 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-761 Pluto is not a planet!

]]> By: innokenti https://scientificgamer.com/the-quickfire-round/#comment-760 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:07:00 +0000 http://scientificgamer.wordpress.com/?p=1868#comment-760 That very much make sense. Yes.

Also, much like you, I’d love to live in that observatory at the top of the post.

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