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I don't use "mind blown" too often, but I will in this case. Here I am, sitting on my ass munching on a snack, admiring the mountains of a planet 3 Billion mile

I don't use "mind blown" too often, but I will in this case. Here I am, sitting on my ass munching on a snack, admiring the mountains of a planet 3 Billion miles away. This is so amazing.

ryanmcbride 11y ago
*dwarf planet
- chasing 11y ago
  Plutino! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutino
- kinghajj 11y ago
  class Planet {} class DwarfPlanet : Planet {} // ... var pluto = new DwarfPlanet(); Console.WriteLine(pluto is Planet);
rogerbinns 11y ago
And to think you are using a measurement system that is so archaic and suboptimal that the vast majority of the planet uses something better :-) Pluto is 4.7 billion kilometres distant at the moment.
- untog 11y ago
  Oh lord, a units of measurement flamewar is exactly what this thread does not need. (seriously, if you're thinking about extolling the virtues of miles vs km, please, stop)
  - cpncrunch 11y ago
    I guess the downvoters somehow completely missed Roger's smiley.
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    - Dylan16807 11y ago
      The comment has no value, smiley or not. Knowing that you're being annoying does not automatically excuse being annoying.
      - ectoplasm 11y ago
        Oh, I don't know. I believe that you can always find something interesting to say about even the stupidest remarks. For instance, 3 billion miles no longer fits in a uint32 when converted to kilometers. Hell, we even lost the Mars Climate Orbiter because of a mistaken conversion between English and metric units. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288 http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288
      - cpncrunch 11y ago
        It must be a strange world that you live in if you consider a good-natured joke said with a smile to be "annoying". Anyway, my comment missing seeing the smiley was in reference to untog's comment that Roger was starting a flamewar (when he clearly wasn't).
        Dylan16807 11y ago
        Bringing up an often-seen furious bikeshedding debate is not a good thing to do. It can be an honest mistake, but it's still a mistake. Smiles convey intent, they don't have magic powers. They can't stop something from being annoying. So it's not that I'm against good-natured jokes with smiles, it's just that those attributes can't save all possible statements. Smiles don't strongly affect whether you effect a flamewar, either.
alkonaut 11y ago
I'm desperately trying to view the images on a shoddy Italian hotel Wifi and can't help thinking how ironic it is that the images were sent six bazillion km from the edge of the solar system but I can't beam them the last ten meters. Rocket science!
- yuchi 11y ago
  Technically you just should give it 4 and half hours. I’m pretty sure digital divide here in Italy is not THAT powerful!

I don't use "mind blown" too often, but I will in this case. Here I am, sitting on my ass munching on a snack, admiring the mountains of a planet 3 Billion miles away. This is so amazing.

ryanmcbride 11y ago

*dwarf planet

chasing 11y ago
Plutino! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutino
kinghajj 11y ago
class Planet {} class DwarfPlanet : Planet {} // ... var pluto = new DwarfPlanet(); Console.WriteLine(pluto is Planet);

rogerbinns 11y ago

And to think you are using a measurement system that is so archaic and suboptimal that the vast majority of the planet uses something better :-) Pluto is 4.7 billion kilometres distant at the moment.

untog 11y ago
Oh lord, a units of measurement flamewar is exactly what this thread does not need. (seriously, if you're thinking about extolling the virtues of miles vs km, please, stop)
- cpncrunch 11y ago
  I guess the downvoters somehow completely missed Roger's smiley.
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  - Dylan16807 11y ago
    The comment has no value, smiley or not. Knowing that you're being annoying does not automatically excuse being annoying.
    - ectoplasm 11y ago
      Oh, I don't know. I believe that you can always find something interesting to say about even the stupidest remarks. For instance, 3 billion miles no longer fits in a uint32 when converted to kilometers. Hell, we even lost the Mars Climate Orbiter because of a mistaken conversion between English and metric units. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288 http://articles.latimes.com/1999/oct/01/news/mn-17288
    - cpncrunch 11y ago
      It must be a strange world that you live in if you consider a good-natured joke said with a smile to be "annoying". Anyway, my comment missing seeing the smiley was in reference to untog's comment that Roger was starting a flamewar (when he clearly wasn't).
      - Dylan16807 11y ago
        Bringing up an often-seen furious bikeshedding debate is not a good thing to do. It can be an honest mistake, but it's still a mistake. Smiles convey intent, they don't have magic powers. They can't stop something from being annoying. So it's not that I'm against good-natured jokes with smiles, it's just that those attributes can't save all possible statements. Smiles don't strongly affect whether you effect a flamewar, either.

alkonaut 11y ago

I'm desperately trying to view the images on a shoddy Italian hotel Wifi and can't help thinking how ironic it is that the images were sent six bazillion km from the edge of the solar system but I can't beam them the last ten meters. Rocket science!

yuchi 11y ago
Technically you just should give it 4 and half hours. I’m pretty sure digital divide here in Italy is not THAT powerful!