Discussion for article #238460
Colbert is awesome plus ten percent.
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I found out that the reason why Pluto is a “Dwarf Planet” isn’t size, but the fact it hasn’t cleared it’s orbit of debris…given how slow it moves, Pluto may just be a baby planet…
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Very tiny…especially when you factor in that 40% of its mass is ice.
Some good info in there, mixed with the comedy:
- Pluto and Charon are both tidally locked with each other (unlike Earth’s moon, the latter being tidally locked with Earth);
- The center of mass between Pluto and Charon, that is, the common barycenter, is outside of Pluto.
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Hilarious! Can’t wait for his show to start.
I particularly love Stephen’s “mission control” - definitely alpha geek all the way.
Reminds me of a similar setup in my bedroom as a young lad.
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The thing I have always found confusing about that definition is that doesn’t Pluto occasionally cross over Neptune’s orbit? So wouldn’t that mean Neptune hasn’t cleared its orbit since it hasn’t grabbed Pluto up?
Binary KBOs.
Well, that too. I think the definitions are kind of bogus overall.
Two of the funniest people on Dwarf Planet Earth!
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The definition is just a matter of expediency, an attempt to classify giant balls of rock, ice, and gas into categories that we can make sense of with our tiny human brains. And there’s actually a ton of junk roaming through the solar system that we don’t know what to do with:
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Well yeah, but that’s true about pretty much everything to which we attach a name or definition. 
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Another reason Pluto isn’t considered a planet is because the declination of its orbit to the solar equator is 17 degrees, while all of the other planets are within 3 degrees of the solar equator. That means that unlike the eight planets, pluto did not form from the initial solar disk. It formed outside the solar disk in the Kuiper Belt, and was captured. That is a major component of why Pluto is not a planet.
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I’d watch Stephen do 90 minutes of this every night. Think of the orchestra and announcer savings…
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… so, Pluto could be some sort of dirty filthy cantaloupe-colored fOORTiner, trying to seem close enough to our planets that it can pass, maybe not always get hassled about papers or at least get birth certificates for the detritus.
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Hahahahaha…ha…I don’t get it. Sorry, you’ll have to explain your joke. I mean, we already know his show DOES have a musical leader and musicians to lead, which, orchestra, band, I don’t know what they qualifies for but whatever it has the effect of removing the knee part from the kneeslapper and since the show’s from NYC I doubt they’re doing the show freebird, and what do you know about the announcer situation the rest of the world doesn’t know and more important if you DO know why the hell are you wasting all your inside insidery in anonymous reader comments on random theads on an news netloid?
People keep wondering how Colbert will do a show and not be in his Colbert Report character, but this seems like its pretty much the same modus operandi of willful ignorance but without the conservative filter applied to it.
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If you’re going to do a swat-down of someone else’s internet comment it needs to be shorter and make more sense.
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If a joke has to be explained for even one person’s benefit it’s no longer a joke. It’s a lesson, it’s a pedantic lecture for a limited audience. For my money, of which there is very little, I think SeanMalloy is the funniest (I presume) guy here. I laugh out loud and enjoy my own exchanges with him.
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Is there anyone that Colbert can’t handle? I mean, without straying into this kind of territory:
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I want N deG T on my side, for anything and everything.
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+++ for Tang, but grapefruit Tang would have been
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4) I’m kinda glad now that it wasn’t grapefruit Tang, because that little thing is really annoying.