Fwd: Re: Most popular/common dinosaur misconceptions

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Accidentally sent to only David,

> David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:
> 
> <Well, people naïvely think they have this right, and IMNSHO they should
> indeed
> have it. Then comes the show business and believes that people actually
> expect
> needless falsehoods from it.>
> 
>   There's a group in this country (that's the US of A) who think that, at
> least
> for this country, rights not ennumerated do not exist. There's another group
> that likes to make assumptions, largely drawn on Founding documents not in
> THE
> Founding Documents, that there are a plethora of unennumerated rights. some
> feel these should be respected, but cannot be enforced without being in
> print,
> and so forth.
> 
>   A right is a thing you fight for that is granted for everyone. If you do
> not
> have that granting, you cannot point and say "See, here, I have THIS right."
> Otherwise it's just a supposition on one's own ego.
> 
> <Because I'm not going to make an extra post for the following, I put it
> here:
> I like having 10 planets, or 11 or 12. But the definition proposed now gives
> us, like, 53. If the IAU can avoid this shift, it should.>
> 
>   Consider how the origin of a rounded body might come into being
> geologically.
> There is a potential probability that it can only form through centrifugal
> accretion, and that the presence of a spherical body means a strong enough
> gravitational pull to keep itself cohesive and pulling all inward across its
> surface evenly. This might be enough to define a planet, and is what goes
> along
> with "being round." But, I sorta agree with Tim: Pluto could reasonably be
> called only a Kuiper Belt Object, a proto-comet of some accreted mass, and
> thus
> shouldn't really be called a planet. That "53" number comes from Brown's
> discovery list, but the potential net gain in "planets" is likely going to be
> FAR above this number.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
> Jaime A. Headden
> http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/
> 
> "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
> 
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Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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