Quote from msleeper on April 25, 2011, 8:34 pm

This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.

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Quote from WinstonSmith on April 25, 2011, 9:30 pm

By the way, I still say Pluto's a planet. Don't care what the IAU says.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Quote from msleeper on April 25, 2011, 9:51 pm

The thing most people don't understand is that astronomers have been finding objects in the solar system that are larger that Pluto is, and yet we do not also classify them as planets. There was never a solid definition of what exactly makes a planet, and so that's what the IAU did. Unfortunately it meant that Pluto didn't make the cut. Because if we had lowered the standards to include Pluto, then it would also include a ton of other bodies and we'd have like 30 planets or something.

Quote from Hober on April 25, 2011, 10:24 pm

Quote from WinstonSmith on April 25, 2011, 10:28 pm

msleeper wrote:

The thing most people don't understand is that astronomers have been finding objects in the solar system that are larger that Pluto is, and yet we do not also classify them as planets. There was never a solid definition of what exactly makes a planet, and so that's what the IAU did. Unfortunately it meant that Pluto didn't make the cut. Because if we had lowered the standards to include Pluto, then it would also include a ton of other bodies and we'd have like 30 planets or something.

Still don't care, I love Pluto too much. They let it in, they have no right to foreclose on its home.

Quote from Player1 on April 26, 2011, 11:06 am

msleeper wrote:

This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.

Also: copy/paste into google gets you the answer in less than 0.2 picoseconds even if you knew nothing about the whole debacle in the first place.

Quote from ASBusinessMagnet on April 26, 2011, 11:11 am

We decided Pluto was a planet in the first place because there was speculation on "Planet X" based on irregularities in Uranus's and Neptune's orbits, which was later corrected by the Voyager 2 mission, AND because it was discovered so early so we didn't know about all these other trans-Neptunian objects.

Quote from Sidneys1 on April 26, 2011, 11:13 am

Yeah, that Captcha made me do a double-take as well.. Perhaps a better anti-spam question that would be less human-unfriendly would be something along the lines of some piece of Portal trivia...
"What does GLaDOS stand for?", "What is a lie?", etc. Something that any Portal player will know, but a bot wouldn't, even with an automatic google search.

Just a thought,
Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

Quote from NeoCortex on April 26, 2011, 12:06 pm

[quote="Player1"][quote="msleeper"]This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.[/quote]

Also: copy/paste into google gets you the answer in less than 0.2 picoseconds even if you knew nothing about the whole debacle in the first place.[/quote]

Tryed that, it doesn't. At least not Google.de

Like I sayed, I don't want to offend anyone. I just think that it keeps alot of people away from the site and a bigger community with more people means more maps and stuff.
What about http://www.webdesignbeach.com/beachbar/ ... ery-plugin just an idea.
Pretty secure and cool looking.