Remember, she changed and began to agree with us for a short time. Our view never changed.

But a heater produces heat and light. The light might turn into heat later but that’s not heat from the heater. Otherwise everything is s heater and it’s all part of the same heater… the universe.

So not a heater…but the universe.

TIL There are 30,000 free roaming bison but there are 500,000 total including privately owned and commercial herds.

Much slower as in hundreds or thousands of years, so practically no difference at all.

It’s just used to scroll social media again isn’t it?

Ohhh look who knows so much!

Isn’t it iconic

“Bti toxins are activated only by the alkaline digestive systems of specific Nematocera larvae (mosquitoes, black flies).”

Plus you only use it in a specific place… not a large body of water.

Mosquito Dunks or Mosquito Bits

Put out a dedicated standing water source but lace it with eco-friendly Bti that kills the larve. (It doesn’t harm people/pets/birds/other insects)

The dark side of your body in space is freezing cold while the light side gets hot. You really need to rotate to get that even crispy layer.

There will be an influx if people who vibe code but just like always the cream will float to the top and no one will want anything written by a poor vibe coders(see visual basic circa 2000). Talented coders can use ai to provide more complex and higher quality apps.

True, just that an intermediate step(of many steps) is to continually destroy the atmosphere.

Better solar power extractor.

Can you explains the knitpicking? They specifically decided that only objects orbiting our star can be Planets. It wasn’t an oversight but intentional. How can that be explained? Why do that?

Also, how can mercury be explained? It clearly violated one of the 3 rules with no given exception other than they just decided it can be a planet. Why?

25% of the 8 objects they wrote rules for needed an exception to make the cut. That doesn’t seem odd?

There is nothing difficult to grasp. They made rules then decided for no reason to let mercury break the rule. Why? Why not make mercury a dwarf planet instead of allowing it with no rule exception other than…just because.

This is not bioligical… those MUST follow the rules. This was a traditional unscientific list… Exactly like constellations. Why not start removing stars from constellations because they are too far away? Except a couple of them just because.

This IAU conference vote was not unanimous… it was very contentious and many wanted a more geological and broad definition rather than an earth centered definition that literally ONLY applies to our solar system. “Planets” can only exist around OUR Sun. Think about that.

I understand the exception created for Neptune. But they had to create this exception… for their own brand new rule… in order to classify 8 things. Notice the exception is written very specifically just to keep pluto from “clearing” is orbit.

Another IAU rule is that the body must assume hydrostatic equilibrium(nearly round). Mercury does NOT assume hydrostatic equilibrium. They knew this.

Guess what? They just…decided…Mercury doesn’t have to follow that rule.

It was all done very unscientifically.

Edit: I want to add that now there are only 8 planets…in the universe. There are no other planets because the definition includes that they must “orbit the Sun”. Not a star but very specifically the Sun. All this with exceptions for just 8 objects? I’m telling you it was a power trip thing more than a scientific endeavor.

It’s a fine metaphor but it doesn’t work for scientific definitions which are exact. The IAU came up with the rule then had to make an exception to their own brand new rule in order to have Neptune remain a planet but not pluto even though both fail the rule. The exception is real and written down, not assumed.

Yet again another of the IAU rules is the body has to be assume hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round). Mercury is NOT in hydrostatic equilibrium and they knew this. So they just…decided… that Mercury is a planet anyway and does not have to follow that rule.

So two planets don’t even follow the rules they made yet were unscientifically decided to be planets. Why? What was the point of it? Certainly wasn’t done for any scientific reason.

If the definition of a planet is that it has cleared is orbit then how is Neptune a planet? It shares its orbit with the dwarf planet pluto therefore they should both be dwarf planets correct?