The many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXI

[hobbsyoyo]

That is probably what he'd do though.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Write it yourself.

I'm.

Not.

That.

Effin'.

Knowledgeable.

Why do you think I searched for it in the first place?



So.

Don't.

Eff.

With.

Me.

Spoiler :

(My heart is literally broiling with pure rage, as a result of everything today, and I can't post in rants because everyone's tired of my ranting, and I have no-one to vent to IRL, as everyone is quite unhelpful right now.)

 

[cardgame]

Given your fascination, I'd have thought you would be.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

That is probably what he'd do though.

Yes, you're right. I'm giving myself an uppercut.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

After I posted that, I realized I wasn't being a good sport. I took the questiom too literal.

 

[bhsup]

Well, at best celebrity status might get the local US consulate to expedite a new passport, but I'm betting he isn't going to be let in anywhere without one.

 

[cardgame]

I realize that this question may be interpreted... oddly, but please don't take it that way.

*ahem*

Why do people feel compelled to tell others that x girl is under 18 on image sharing sites? I know, of course, about the legal age for consensual activity and etc. but in this case there's never even going to be physical contact, so I cannot for the life of me figure out why it should matter in the least. A girl can be 17 and still super hot, but because she may be underage for some people in some countries or states it's automatically bad to say such

 

[ace99]

Its to keep the lustful thoughts of cretins in check.

 

[Synobun]

I realize that this question may be interpreted... oddly, but please don't take it that way.

*ahem*

Why do people feel compelled to tell others that x girl is under 18 on image sharing sites? I know, of course, about the legal age for consensual activity and etc. but in this case there's never even going to be physical contact, so I cannot for the life of me figure out why it should matter in the least. A girl can be 17 and still super hot, but because she may be underage for some people in some countries or states it's automatically bad to say such

One word: Jailbait.

 

[Synobun]

Why does Wikipedia not have a page on stellar habitability? Seriously, it's a no-brainer, there should be a page on a star's ability or potential to host life-bearing planets, focusing on the star itself.

And don't eff'in tell me to google it, I already eff'in did, with no luck.

We don't really know enough about stars and how life forms to really give an actual scientific estimate on that besides wishful thinking. It'd be cool but we simply don't know enough yet.

Maybe in twenty years?

 

[Cutlass]

I realize that this question may be interpreted... oddly, but please don't take it that way.

*ahem*

Why do people feel compelled to tell others that x girl is under 18 on image sharing sites? I know, of course, about the legal age for consensual activity and etc. but in this case there's never even going to be physical contact, so I cannot for the life of me figure out why it should matter in the least. A girl can be 17 and still super hot, but because she may be underage for some people in some countries or states it's automatically bad to say such

Because on celeb picture sites there are always a selection of people who make sexual comments about the under-18 girls for no reason other than that they are under-18. And the younger the better for some of those guys.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Were there any strong public reactions to the IAU's reclassification of Pluto as dwarf planet in places other than the US?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Were there any strong public reactions to the IAU's reclassification of Pluto as dwarf planet in places other than the US?

Besides here on Pluto?

 

[Borachio]

Why does Wikipedia not have a page on stellar habitability? Seriously, it's a no-brainer, there should be a page on a star's ability or potential to host life-bearing planets, focusing on the star itself.

And don't eff'in tell me to google it, I already eff'in did, with no luck.

Isn't there an index/coefficient/measure of how like a planet is to the earth? But that's for planets that have already been detected. Not many, I think.

So then you'd need a substantial number of those, then correlate them with the nature of their stars and find a relationship.

I bet that would be quite hard to do.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What Borachio said. Though we have found a ton of extrasolar planets, we haven't categorized or studied them in enough detail to make any firm correlations between their potential habitability and 'stellar habitability'.

I also think the thinking kind of goes that any star is habitable if it is stable and you are close enough or far enough away from it. Therefore almost are stars are 'habitable' in the sense you are talking about PE.

 

[CKS]

What would you need to have/be/say etc to get yourself onto an international flight if you left your passport behind? Is there a level of celebrity that's gonna get you out of Heathrow and into New York? Could you bribe your way on? You get the gist.

You get to spend a lot of time at the consulate and the airport.

When I was in high school, thirty years ago, we lived in Germany for a while. When we moved back to the USA, our passports were accidentally packed up with furniture and shipped. We spent a lot of time messing around at the consulate beforehand, but we finally got on a flight. Once we arrived, we were held at the airport for quite a while before they decided we could go. I don't know anything about what hoops my parents had to jump through.

I imagine it would be a much bigger pain these days, due to terrorist paranoia. It seems that one _should_ be able to get a replacement passport pretty easily because of electronic paperwork, but I bet you can't.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I think it's better now, but in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, it was a nightmare dealing with customs/border agents without the proper documentation.

My family took a trip to Canada and didn't have our passports (it hadn't been necessary before 9/11) and we spent an hour trying to get back into the US, despite the fact that my father is in the US Army and we all had military ID's. Only a call to his superior officer let us through finally.

 

[bhsup]

That's just another argument in the "PRO" column for forced annexation of Canada.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

We need to finish what we started in 1812 for sure.

 

[Supr49er]

If I recall, Canada successfully repulsed every attempted US invasion in that war.