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Not wrong
Yep, you really appreciate when your ship gets hit by a barely visible piece of junk.
Eri
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A trick question: How many ringed planets are there in our Solar System?
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/9/2009 9:16:38 PM
Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter !
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Raoul
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7/9/2009 9:22:01 PM
Wrong! Five, counting Earth.
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/9/2009 9:45:43 PM
Not wrong
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Nick Hoffman
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7/9/2009 11:31:40 PM
You're too arbitrary.
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/10/2009 9:14:21 PM
A ring must at least look like one to be called that way
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Raoul
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7/11/2009 3:29:52 PM
re: Not wrong
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Doug Ellison
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7/10/2009 11:13:04 AM
You're ring definition is too narrow and incorrect.
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/10/2009 9:10:56 PM
The clue is RING
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Doug Ellison
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7/10/2009 9:23:52 PM
You need a paradigm shift in your thinking, friend.
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/10/2009 9:34:10 PM
Some day Earth will have a real debris ring
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Socrates II
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7/10/2009 12:52:48 PM
I wonder how many more artificial toroidal rings there are around other planets light-years away?
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Jefferson-Washington
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7/10/2009 9:42:20 PM
Yep, you really appreciate when your ship gets hit by a barely visible piece of junk.
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Eri
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7/10/2009 3:54:51 AM
Speaking of the ringed planet Neptune
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Socrates II
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7/10/2009 11:46:25 AM
Did the Vatican help suppress Galileo's discovery of Neptune?
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Socrates II
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7/10/2009 3:25:22 PM
Earlier reference papers
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Socrates II
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7/10/2009 4:30:16 PM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.