It helps if you think of hell as a
home for the theologically insane...



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I know, wrong thread. I promise
that it may never happen again?

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I was shocked that Dr. Tyson's education did not include
a reading of Dante Alighieri's poem the Divine Comedy...



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No really, he didn't know that there is ice in hell.

I didn't read it until college, and then only got part-way through. It was a curiosity purchase, not as required reading for a literature class. So many books on my "waiting to read" list....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

It helps if you think of hell as a
home for the theologically insane...



edit:
I know, wrong thread. I promise
that it may never happen again?

Yes, the classical vision of Hell, with levels tailored to provide the absolute most misery for those assigned there.

And then there is the vision put out by the TV series "Touched By An Angel", where Hell is an empty VOID, where the occupant is isolated from everything, alone in the Dark, forever. Kinda like being out in the Kuiper Belt, maybe? Not sure which would be worse.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

L'enfer, c'est de ne plus aimer (Georges Bernanos, "Journal d'un cure' de campagne").
Tullio

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You mean retired Politics posters?

Ouuuuu!




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Quick, back to topic before Uli gets out that rolling pin....

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Quick, back to topic before Uli gets out that rolling pin....

I think Julie borrowed it ....

Huh? Nah, I forgot it at home today..

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rOZZ
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B u n f i g h t !!!

Arrrrrruggggghhh!!



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Quick, lock the door!

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Quick, back to topic before Uli gets out that rolling pin....

I think Julie borrowed it ....

Huh? Nah, I forgot it at home today..

What you didn't deploy the Tactical Nuke? ;)

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/plutos-heart-shaped-landscape-is-weirder-than-we-thought/ar-AAd9hS6?ocid=iehp

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Pluto will always be a Planet to me.

You know. It did look like a heart at fisrt glance. But ever since I saw Pluto superimposed on the heart. I can only say that The PLANET was apply named:)

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Old James

Neil deGrasse stated in the last day or 2 that "no respectable would cross another planet's orbit", but what would he know about what a planet thinks?

Cheers.

How does he know that in early Earth history that Our planet dindt cross anothers orbit. Thereby making our moon. Why do they say we got whacked by another planet? maybe Ereath was the guilty party?

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Old James

And Pluto's discover Tombaugh has a Regio in the heart named for Him.


Peering closely at the “heart of Pluto” in the western half of
what mission scientists have informally named Tombaugh
Regio, New Horizons’ Ralph instrument revealed evidence of
carbon monoxide ice. The contours indicate that the
concentration of frozen carbon monoxide increases toward the
center of the “bull’s-eye.” Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Neil deGrasse stated in the last day or 2 that "no respectable would cross another planet's orbit", but what would he know about what a planet thinks?

Cheers.

How does he know that in early Earth history that Our planet dindt cross anothers orbit. Thereby making our moon. Why do they say we got whacked by another planet? maybe Ereath was the guilty party?

I've read that theory, too. That collision not only created our moon, but is responsible for the asteroid belt between Earth and Mars.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Neil deGrasse stated in the last day or 2 that "no respectable would cross another planet's orbit", but what would he know about what a planet thinks?

Cheers.

How does he know that in early Earth history that Our planet didn't cross anothers orbit. Thereby making our moon. Why do they say we got whacked by another planet? maybe Earth was the guilty party?

I've read that theory, too. That collision not only created our moon, but is responsible for the asteroid belt between Earth and Mars.

Yeah lots of rocks in that Belt, according to Space.com... Though I only know of the Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

An update courtsey of the Astra Family.

http://space.io9.com/a-guide-to-pluto-everything-weve-learned-from-new-hori-1718799253

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Seti Ambassador
Not to late to order an Anni Shirt

Thank you Uli.

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Uh-oh. Recent close-up photos of Pluto show a possible cause for concern.

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An update courtesy of the Astra Family.

Best Regards to our Norwegian Princess :-)

+1 I see her on facebook once in a while.

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rOZZ
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Pluto's moon Charon's north pole now has a name: MORDOR

http://space.io9.com/a-guide-to-pluto-everything-weve-learned-from-new-hori-1718799253

We got our first surprise when Charon was still a fuzzy blur in the distance: the massive moon had a smeared dark polar cap. Now named Mordor, the cap is still provoking more questions than answers. We know it’s big and red; that’s about it. Mission scientists have speculated that from some angles, it almost looks like an impact basin from a colossal collision. We’ll know more later when we start getting spectra back to tell us about chemical composition on the surface of the moon.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's