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Startling Sedna Discovery

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Scientists tracking Sedna have recently discovered that it is larger and has a more interesting geography than previously thought:
A recently discovered distant world in our solar system—named Sedna—has been the subject of considerable observation as of late. Scientists have been debating whether to call Sedna a "planet" or something else, such as a "Kuiper Belt object," "minor planet" or "planetoid."

The debate is about to heat up. Astronomers using observations from the International Space Station have concluded that Sedna is considerably larger than previously thought, with a mean radius of about 2400 km. That would make Sedna comparable in size to Mercury, greatly enhancing Sedna’s claim to planetary status.

Of more curious interest are anomalies in images of Sedna, which show changes to the Sedna’s profile as it rotates. There is a growing consensus that the anomalies are caused by eight immense mountainous masses on Sedna, approximately equidistantly spaced on the surface. Curiously, Sedna’s shape may prevent it from being deemed a planet. "The damned thing is cube-shaped, and everybody knows you can’t have a cube-shaped planet," said Astronomer Upton O’Goode, announcing the discovery.

O’Goode further reported that the images show that each of Sedna’s six “sides” has a different albedo, as if each side had a different number of dark patches on it.

"Einstein said that God does not play dice," O'Goode said. "Well, here at last is proof that Einstein was wrong."
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Hmm, I thought the scientific establishment was supposed to keep this fact suppressed until Thursday.
 
"The damned thing is cube-shaped, and everybody knows you can’t have a cube-shaped planet," said Astronomer Upton O’Goode

Oh no!! It's the Borg!!

We're doomed!!
 
I would LOVE to see the car that has the windscreen that has the rear-view mirror that has this planet hanging from it...

Is Sedna particularly fluffy, by any chance?
 
As everyone seems to have deduced, this story about a cube-shaped planet was fake.
 
Yahweh, what in the heck was that, and where did you find it?

That counter must be faked, nobody would ever see that twice.


Children having babies is evil
& welfare for such evil is evil.
Overpopulation is Time Bomb.
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Huh?

You were educated 'stupid'
by evil religious teachers,
and can't know Time Cube.
'Cube Spirit' is Almighty.
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That whole thing is a sigline just waiting to happen.
 
neutrino_cannon said:
Yahweh, what in the heck was that, and where did you find it?
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Gene Ray is an up-and-coming legend on the intellectual circuit and the Internet. His one page website just keeps on growing as he adds more diatribe to the end of it - think of it as a nutter's blog.

As they say in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mostly harmless.
 
Mostly harmless now, but he might snap if one day he discovers that a cube has _eight_ corners.
 
phildonnia said:
Mostly harmless now, but he might snap if one day he discovers that a cube has _eight_ corners.
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Even Astonomer Upton O'Goode, though he's fake, got that part right! He reported eight vertices (mountains) and six faces.

I haven't checked the link. Does the person in question think a cube has six vertices? For those of you familiar with your platonic solids, an octahedron has six vertices, but it has eight faces. (Additional trivia: Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick might not have known the difference between an octahedon and a cube. In "2001," Kubrick had a scene that he called "Mindbender," that showed a series of octahedons... but Kubrick referred to them as "cubes.")
 
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