Jul. 30th, 2005
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Jul. 30th, 2005 10:14 pmOH OH ITEM OF COOLNESS:
Tenth Planet Discovered!
That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?
Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.
Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...
*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun
Tenth Planet Discovered!
That is kind of cool. Although, you know, if Pluto is 40AU out and Planet X is 97 AU* out, is that a planet or just a supah-large Oort Cloud object? How far out is the Oort Cloud anyway?
Okay, Wikipedia Says 50,000-100,000 AU out. Which, dude, is a long way to travel for long-period comets, I never really thought about that before. Anyway. So I guess not a supermassive Oort cloud object. And it's bigger than Kuiper belt objects because they think it's bigger than Pluto which kind of sits on the fine line- some people think it's a planet, some people think it's a big Kuiper belt object.
Um, anyway. Yay, new planet? I don't really have an appropriate icon for this...
*1 AU=Astronomical Unit= distance from Earth to Sun
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Jul. 30th, 2005 10:50 pmAND.
I totally love the illegal filesharing network UCHalls does NOT have. Because I am kind of an obsessive completist with regards to music, is the thing, and it has been a source of serious angst for me that there are a number of tracks that Bic Runga has recorded- B-sides and extras on singles discs and bonus discs and so forth- that I simply have not been able to get my hot little hands on.
But some totally wonderful person on the Hub-which-doesn't-exist TOTALLY had the Drive bonus disc (I have Drive, Beautiful Collisions, the Beautiful Collisions bonus disc, and Bic Runga live with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, which is BTW a really beautiful recording, unusual and pretty) AND AND AND now I have:
You
Welcome to my Kitchen
Close the Door, Put Out the Light
Dust
Ordinary Girl
Making A Scene
and a cool acoustic version of Sway and the "doordashan remix" of Drive which is bizarre and awesome. You can NEVER have too many recordings of Sway, if you haven't heard it you're dead to me. In fact I will YSI it on Monday, because omg the idea that there are people out there who haven't heard it just makes me CRY.
Still haven't gotLonely Lola, Cherry Cola Girl, i don't mean it, all fall down, making a scene, or take it out sometimes. I'm not ashamed to beg, because I really am that obsessive.
Um anyway. MUSIC GOODNESS. *puts on repeat*
I totally love the illegal filesharing network UCHalls does NOT have. Because I am kind of an obsessive completist with regards to music, is the thing, and it has been a source of serious angst for me that there are a number of tracks that Bic Runga has recorded- B-sides and extras on singles discs and bonus discs and so forth- that I simply have not been able to get my hot little hands on.
But some totally wonderful person on the Hub-which-doesn't-exist TOTALLY had the Drive bonus disc (I have Drive, Beautiful Collisions, the Beautiful Collisions bonus disc, and Bic Runga live with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, which is BTW a really beautiful recording, unusual and pretty) AND AND AND now I have:
You
Welcome to my Kitchen
Close the Door, Put Out the Light
Dust
Ordinary Girl
Making A Scene
and a cool acoustic version of Sway and the "doordashan remix" of Drive which is bizarre and awesome. You can NEVER have too many recordings of Sway, if you haven't heard it you're dead to me. In fact I will YSI it on Monday, because omg the idea that there are people out there who haven't heard it just makes me CRY.
Still haven't got
Um anyway. MUSIC GOODNESS. *puts on repeat*