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oh lawd, the asteroid belt...
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:50 pmby May-chan
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 92,00.html
"The odd duck of a spacecraft, scheduled to launch in September, is known simply as Dawn, and its destinations are the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, mysterious bodies orbiting in the belt of rubble that circles the sun between Mars and Venus. NASA vehicles have been this way before, but they've usually been just passing through on their way to the planets in the outer solar system. This time the asteroid belt itself will be the destination, and the ship will get there courtesy of the young technology of ion propulsion."
...ummm no... the Earth would be the one between Venus and Mars...
...the asteroid belt is between Mars and Jupiter... small children know this...
... way to go TIME...
Posted:
Sat Jul 14, 2007 3:36 pmby Selena Aninikkou
Actually, there are two asteroid belts in the solar system, but your point stands.
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Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:21 pmby Moonlit Naiad
Hmmm, if they didn't make direct reference to Ceres, one could always argue that the Earth and all the trash we shoot into space (spysats, weathersats, lost bits of space shuttles and space stations) would count as a pile of debris in orbit between Mars and Venus.
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Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:45 amby Alyta
Plus there are near-earth asteroids which orbit in or very close to Earth's, some of which even cross our oribit, with obvious risks.
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Sat Jul 21, 2007 3:28 pmby Kether
This just means Time is plotting to blow up the Earth.
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Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:59 amby Sensei Kimiko
Time is owned by the Vogons?
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Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:19 amby MyBaDfUrDaY
Kether wrote:This just means Time is plotting to blow up the Earth.
Well, by the 10th dimension rule (or is it 9th dimension rule? Well the 4th dimension also covers it...), Time has already blown up the Earth. (Only in a different universe I think though).
O.o
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Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:39 amby Mitera Nikkou
Didn't you know? While humanity struggles with the sexes, Time magazine is taking care of that which lies between. They think even less of what's between male and female sex. Hmmmm... I've never thought of the Earth as a hermaphrodite before, but now it all makes sense.