In addition to "downgrading" Pluto's status, the International Astronomical Union also defined two celestial objects - the asteroid Ceres, Charon (Pluto's moon) and 2003 UB313, nicknamed &quo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/astronomers-better-kick-pluto-out-of-the-planet-club-than-admit-hundreds-of-space-rocks/Worth1000 has a Photoshop contest to save Pluto's planetary status. Link - via Boing Boing...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/photoshoppers-unite-to-save-pluto/Astronomers had just voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet - instead, it is now classified as a dwarf planet.The researchers said Pluto failed to dominate its orbit around the Sun in the same way as th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/pluto-not-a-planet-anymore/George Goble of Purdue University probably thought "lighter fluids are for wussies" when he thought up a way of lighting his charcoal with liquid oxygen. The result? Started with 60 lbs of charco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/grilling-with-liquid-oxygen/Check out the cute animal diagrams, made up using tube lines, stations and junctions of the London Underground (originally spotted by Paul Middlewick some 17 years ago while staring at the tube map during his...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/animals-on-the-london-underground/Twenty seven years ago, Lee Redmond's life was too busy for beauty treatments, so she decided to cut corners and stop filing her nails. Now, 33 inches later, the Salt Lake City woman holds the world's...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/worlds-longest-fingernails/Inspired by inscriptions on bones and bronze objects in ancient China, the Olympic Games Pictograms for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are both fun and instructive.Link - via Random Citations...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/beijing-olympics-pictogram/From the website:This is first Russian laptop, made under the brand “Elektronika”. The production started in 1991 and lasted not very long due to the high price of the device - none of the comm...
https://www.neatorama.com/2006/08/24/first-russian-laptop/
