Pluto's mass is 25 times smaller than Mercuries, I might have been wrong by implying it was the size specifically.
Pluto's mass is 25 times smaller than Mercuries, I might have been wrong by implying it was the size specifically.
Good God, Ceej, were you taught by 3 year olds?
Well, mass and size are two different entities.
I doubt they're going to judge whether a rock is a planet or not on solely mass. I know I won't. Besides, Pluto has a moon.
And now, don't go doing what my college science instructor did, once he learned and informed us that Pluto was no longer a planet, and claim I saying every planet that doesn't have a moon isn't a planet.
EDIT:
It had to have been a major conspiracy if I were taught wrong because it was countless teachers across four schools and they had textbooks that confirmed everything they were teaching me. And then, they'd either have to misteach the other students in the classes or get them in on it. I highly doubt it. It's highly unlikely.
FURTHER EDIT:
I've done some research and apparently Mercury is bigger than Pluto. However, I found something else interesting. I wasn't the only one who was taught Mercury was smaller.
MORE EDITING:
According to this, this is why we were taught that:
At one time astronomers thought Pluto was bigger than Mercury. Now we know that Pluto is only half the diameter of Mercury.
I ate some lemons at lunch today and they were much more pronounced on the top of my tongue than further back. I'm going to see if this correllates to any 'taste maps' I can find online.
[edit- I looked for some that tried to show concentration of different receptors, but I got bored after finding results for cow tongues and chicken tongues but not people tongues. I guess they haven't dissected enough tongues to find taste buds yet. I did find one of ceej's beloathed taste maps that indicated that perhaps there were fewer taste buds total at the portion of tongue where I couldn't taste much, so take that for what it's worth.]
Maybe they taught you wrong for the laughs.
Yeah. And I found a whole bunch of packs of Arby's sauce but not a single pack of Horsey sauce.
EDIT:
I like how every time Ceej admits when he's wrong, everyone just drops the subject and pretends it never happened. My theory is that people want to believe that's not at all like Ceej and if people recognize it happens, then they have to concede that Ceej does that.
Besides, it's not like that subject was what this thread was about anyway.
Things in science change and ideas are refuted. Nothing is absolutely concrete, everything is a theory. So if your schoolbooks had outdated text and your teachers never bothered to find out different that doesn't mean that it didn't change.
Which brings along the next thing I want to say, which is that you state things as if they are concrete irrefutable fact instead of presenting them scientifically as a theory for others to test and come to other conclusions. And when people do present information to disprove what you say you just act as if it's a huge conspiracy against you. Not to mention that things like this are worked on in real lab environments with sensitive equipment and lots of peer review and the fact that you have a single piece of anectdotal evidence really isn't going to make some huge dent in the scientific community. Though if you think it should then you could always present it to some highly regarded scientific publication.