Here we can all be heard for a little while

tootiemac

I'm so sorry I posted and ran today, work just got the better of me.
Thanks for all your lovely messages, they have patch up the hole in my boat for now.

On the plus side I think some people might have been right, sometimes you just need to find others on the same wave length.

I think most of you match me quite well!!!

I arrived home tonight to just my 2 kittens, my partner had gone on a day trip with his friend and was to be late home. I used the time to clean the kitchen up a bit and cook some food I can take for breakfast and lunch. Not sure who good it will taste but if I'm here to post tomorrow you'll know it wasn't deadly. But the time I had let me think for a while and I've realised that my thoughts are my friends.

I don't have voices as such though I do talk to myself a lot so it's alright with me.

I still feel lost but not deserted I will find my way off this island one step at a time

Pyxis

Miss_Mario wrote: »

WaS, I read earlier that the Pluto heart is one of the main recognition points, it's over 1,000 miles wide
Fascinating to see the progress

I never knew about the heart before!
I never understood the reason for demoting Pluto. Is it done just on size? If so, who decides the size threshold above which it can be a planet? Seems a bit random unless there are other deciding factors.

Does anyone know?

calleyw wrote: »

And I am beginning to get a bit twitchy as have my first ever smear test tomorrow.

Valium in the morning me thinks LOL!!!!


Yours

Calley

Good luck, Calley! Very proud of you for taking the bull by the horns, if that's not an inappropriate metaphor! :rotfl:

dragonette

Good luck Calley

Pyxis

Tootiemac! Kittens!

Pics please, (unless they will identify you, of course!)

Flybaby

Pyx - the main reason for pluto being re-classified a minor planet was when they found out more about the Kuiper belt - this is the field of loads of objects that circle our solar system - Pluto is in this - and there are millions of objects in this........some of which are as big as or bigger than pluto.........it was either change plutos classification (and clarify the definition of a major planet) or we would have ended up with hundreds of new planets, and a lot of naming to be done and re-writing of text books.....


I didn't mind so much when they did it, because Pluto was always a tentative fit because a) it's orbit is on a different plane to all the other planets and b) it wiggles around it's orbit line - which no one else does.

Flybaby

Can't remember the name of the dude who first saw Pluto - but he did dam well to see it quite frankly. Pretty amazing considering the tech they had then.


WaS - so actually, re-classifying Pluto was putting him into the right school so he could play with all his new brothers and sisters!


So - the spacecraft survived the flyby - now got to wait till 8m tonight for the official briefing when they show the first pictures........so excited - not sure why, because technically they should be pictures of "leftovers" from the formation of the solar system...........but hey..........we are money savers after all.............so we like leftovers!

Pyxis

Thanks Flybaby!
So is the Kuiper belt in the same plane as Pluto as well?

Also, if some of the bodies in the belt are bigger than Pluto, how come they weren't discovered at the same time as or before Pluto was?

I wonder why its orbit is in a different plane?

Flybaby

Tootiemac - no apologies required in here. ((squish))

Pyxis

Pyxis

The two-fingered Squish!



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