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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: Drighton on October 12, 2005, 04:56:27 PM

Title: Can science get any nerdier?
Post by: Drighton on October 12, 2005, 04:56:27 PM: Exhibit A: New planet named Xena (http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/10/01/new.planet.moon.ap/)

Wait till you see what they named it's moon.

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Post by: White Dwarf on October 12, 2005, 05:47:56 PM: Yes. Simple as.
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Post by: shadus on October 12, 2005, 05:59:02 PM: Well all the other planets are named after the Romen (Or Greek) Gods,So why not Xena.It's something people will understand better and still keep the Romen (Greek) nameing thing.
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Post by: WarxePB on October 12, 2005, 06:38:59 PM: Yeah, saw some stuff about that before.

In regards to the debate about whether Pluto should be a planet or not: Who cares if it's not technically a planet? Removing it or adding Xena would mess up all the science textbooks, and it would cost a lot to get them replaced, and stuff. So it's not really worth it.
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Post by: AsakuraHao2004 on October 12, 2005, 06:42:11 PM: This my friends attributes to the mass ignorance of our culture, as we classify that which is scientific in a negative way.
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Post by: Robotam on October 12, 2005, 06:42:54 PM: Next time it'll be Super Mario, and the moon's name will obviously be Luigi.
I shall await the planet "Zelos"!
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Post by: shadus on October 12, 2005, 06:44:30 PM: How about X and Zero.There are PS fans out there.
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Post by: WarxePB on October 12, 2005, 06:53:49 PM: Asakura - was that directed to me?

If so, think about it. If Xena was a planet or Pluto was not one, it would render every current science textbook, magazine, etc. obsolete. New textbooks, magazines, etc. would need to be made, so that the schools, universities, stuff like that could get new books. I suppose they could just shrug it off and just tell the students that Pluto isn't a real planet, but most schools don't want to be teaching their students errant information.

I have nothing against science. I have a beef with a few of its theories, but in general, science is a great tool.

Oh, and they should name the next planet Warxe ;)
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Post by: Enduo_Ril on October 12, 2005, 07:07:48 PM: I think he was talking about the whole "science == nerdy" thing from the post's title.

Science certainly isn't perfect... but considering the alternatives, it's the best we've got as far as that whole "explaining how the world works" thing goes.
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Post by: Ace of Spades on October 12, 2005, 07:15:37 PM: Science is what's going to kill us all. In reguards to the topic, who cares? Pluto must stay a planet or else "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" will become "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine ... Xylophones?" We don't want that now, do we?
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Post by: Drighton on October 12, 2005, 07:28:59 PM: well, I do consider an unhealthy obsession with Xena, or any television series to be nerdy. Science is already regarded as a nerd related area. However, to mix science with an unhealthy obsession with Xena... does this not make things exponentially nerdier?

It wasn't meant negatively. Besides, what would people say if the next space vessel is named Enterprise?

But about the whole pluto thing: Who Cares!! :D

Textbooks don't need to be rewritten, they can simply lie to children, like they do about George Washington and the apple tree or Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone, and then tell them the truth later in high school.

And to go a little off topic:
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Lisa: Wait, Xena can't fly!
LL: I told you, I'm not Xena. I'm Lucy Lawless.
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Post by: Moosetroop11 on October 12, 2005, 08:05:11 PM: Science is awesomeness. I want to be a scientist later in life.
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Post by: Drace on October 12, 2005, 08:09:52 PM: ...
Not even I go THAT far with tv... But I should have called it "Al Bundy" or "Dave Lister".
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Post by: Osmose on October 12, 2005, 08:14:33 PM: Lucy Lawless :heart:
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Post by: Spike the Kat on October 12, 2005, 11:18:14 PM: Quote
Originally posted by shadus
Well all the other planets are named after the Romen (Or Greek) Gods,So why not Xena.It's something people will understand better and still keep the Romen (Greek) nameing thing.

WHAT how dare you put roman befor greek xena is a greek god and the romans just took them and renamed them

yeah science is awseme i am doing a project on quntum(srry for horrible spelling) physics
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Post by: shadus on October 12, 2005, 11:26:25 PM: Well I know that the romen stole every thing.I just forgot if they where named after romen or greek gods.
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Post by: Rune_of_Punishment on October 12, 2005, 11:51:21 PM: Science is amazing. I love Physics and Chemisitry. I don't like Astronomy, Biology of any sort, or anything of those types.
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Post by: MrMister on October 13, 2005, 12:17:27 AM: If I discovered a planet I'd call it Sanford & Son
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Post by: AsakuraHao2004 on October 13, 2005, 03:20:25 AM: No, it was towards Drighton.
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Post by: Darkfox on October 13, 2005, 04:48:47 AM: I shall name a star cluster after my childhood rolemodels... Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael!
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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on October 13, 2005, 04:51:56 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Darkfox
I shall name a star cluster after my childhood rolemodels... Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael!

I..... love you.....
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Post by: FFL2and3rocks on October 13, 2005, 04:58:01 AM: Then that star cluster will get sucked up into a black hole, which I will name Shredder.
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Post by: Razor on October 13, 2005, 06:33:10 AM: ...which I will destroy by using a DoomsDay Device, which will destroy that whole galaxy, which I will call "Farnsworth"
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Post by: GaryCXJk on October 13, 2005, 08:43:10 AM: Effen n00bs. XENA IS NO GOD / GODDESS.

Xena is a character created for the Hercules TV show.

Xena is the femine form of the word xenos, which means unknown or foreign or something like that. There was no god called Xena, and there was no mythologic character named Gabrielle or Joxer or anything like that.
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Post by: Drace on October 13, 2005, 09:19:00 AM: ^Indeed.

Know your mythologies next time.

And the original planets are named after the Roman gods. The Roman gods are based on the Greek ones, only their names and mythologies changed.
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Post by: kodakumi on October 16, 2005, 12:27:45 PM: i like that show called braniac.
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Post by: Razor on October 16, 2005, 12:42:22 PM: IRRELEVANCE GET!

Everyone knows Brainiac is just infringing on the popularity of Mythbusters.

I mean, so far I know they have done "can you break glass with your voice" and "does a mobile phone at a petrol station cause a splode" both of which have been on MB prior.
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Post by: ZeroKirbyX on October 16, 2005, 09:18:45 PM: I hate Brainiac and any spawn of that crap called 'G4'. But I was just holding my tongue on that Xena thing... Fliiping tards.

But the ultimatre name for a planet would be BillyMay and the moons Cletus and Scabies.
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Post by: shadus on October 16, 2005, 10:27:51 PM: I did I read the names of the TMNT?*Nerdy voice*Dark Fox I love you :heart: !Wait,Your talking abou the old ones right?Cuz the new ones suck!
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Post by: MrMister on October 16, 2005, 10:40:53 PM: I have a TMNT the movie bumper sticker.. and a rule book for the old dicey board rpg. I was always a triceraton.