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Pluto

Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Have an Out of this World Night’s Sleep Under this Astronaut Duvet Cover

by Rebecca Pahle | 5:00 pm, February 15th, 2013

Tony Stark expresses my feelings on this astronaut duvet cover by Dutch company Snurk (“For Horizontal Living”) rather nicely. (Boing Boing)

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It Came From Outer Space

SETI Asks the Internet to Name Pluto’s Smallest Moons, Is Probably Already Inundated With Meme-Related Write-Ins

by Rebecca Pahle | 11:45 am, February 11th, 2013

…But the names have to be related to Greek mythology, specifically to Hades (or, as the Romans knew him, Pluto) and the underworld. And no, the fact that listening to NyanCat for too long makes one want to die doesn’t count.

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so long and thanks for all the fish

R.I.P. Patsy Tombaugh, Pluto’s Crusader

by Susana Polo | 2:49 pm, January 17th, 2012

While we readily admit to nostalgic sympathy with the tiny planetoid known as Pluto, when the International Astronomical Union gets together and finally puts a definition on “planet,” well… that’s science.

Okay, it’s not so much research and hypothesis as much as it is classification and taxonomy, but without the latter the former would be a lot more difficult. Folks on the losing side of the Pluto debate weren’t wrong in their research… they just wanted a larger definition. Last week, the small planetoid lost one of its big supporters, Patsy Tombaugh.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: David Tennant In A Chair

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:04 pm, December 28th, 2011

Some days you just need to see David Tennant in a chair. Those days end in Y. (via Facebook) Don’t worry, we saw more than just David Tennant in a chair today… 

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