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The Truth 
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 Posted: August 18 2011 at 22:49 |
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I agree with the OP on Neptune. I've been amused by it for as long as I can remember...
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JJLehto
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Posted: August 18 2011 at 22:56 |
Jupiter. Solely because of the Gustav Holst piece. Also I always thought it was pretty cool. Giant gas planet, the multi colored ringed atmosphere with all the swirls, the great red spot, and some of my favorite moons. Yeah, I was a huge space nerd when I was a kid 
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manofmystery
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 00:06 |
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Jupiter is really the only one that benefits my life in any way at all that I can think of, off the top of my head
Edited by manofmystery - August 19 2011 at 00:06
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 Time always wins.
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clarkpegasus4001
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 00:25 |
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Saturn for me.
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Tony C.
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Icarium
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 00:51 |
 JJLehto wrote:
Jupiter.
Solely because of the Gustav Holst piece. Also I always thought it was pretty cool. Giant gas planet, the multi colored ringed atmosphere with all the swirls, the great red spot, and some of my favorite moons.
Yeah, I was a huge space nerd when I was a kid
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me to i could name the entire solar system planet by planet before i had any concept of mainstreem religion you can think what i thought when religion was introduced to me in school and bible storys, i also had a concept of palenterlogy before i knew anything about the allfather, not that i did not tickle with christianity but before i was christian i knew of the age of the solar system and of the creatures that lived before the creation of earth itself ...
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darkshade
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 01:26 |
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Everyone knows it's pronounced "your-on-us" anyway.
Besides, Uranus didn't choose it's name. We should discuss it. The scientist who was being a douche to his friend while drunk, and when asked the question, "what should we call that planet?", responded; "Your ass!". They later specified - Uranus.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 03:27 |
CCVP wrote:
Protip: those who picked Uranus are gay and those who picked Venus are straight. |
You're most likely a Progmetal guy to make such a stupid comment, right???  (sorry couldn't resist) 
Had you said that those who picked Mars (being the anti-sex of Venus), your "gay" comments would've been more correct... "
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 03:53 |
The one without government. JK, I pick Venus for obvious reasons. When we colonize all planets of the solar system, Venus is going to be the red lantern planet. 
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 03:56 |
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Say no to johnny come lately upstart post 1889 planets. Beam me up Walter Scotty
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someone_else
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 04:25 |
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Uranus because it rolls along its orbit, causing 42-year seasons on its poles. And it has a thin ring, I believe...
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Icarium
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 04:46 |
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^ Venus "rolls" the opesite way of the Tellus and one day on Venus is longer then over a year on Tellus, but i gather you probably knew that litle anekdote
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someone_else
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 05:00 |
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^I knew that Venus rotates around the sun in about 225 days and it rotates around its axis in 243 days.
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martinprog77
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 05:21 |
in honor of one of my favorite singers i pick ''Mercury ''
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Nothing can last
there are no second chances.
Never give a day away.
Always live for today.
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CCVP
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 06:44 |
Sean Trane wrote:
CCVP wrote:
Protip: those who picked Uranus are gay and those who picked Venus are straight. |
You're most likely a Progmetal guy to make such a stupid comment, right??? (sorry couldn't resist)
Had you said that those who picked Mars (being the anti-sex of Venus), your "gay" comments would've been more correct... "
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 06:55 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Chris S
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 07:39 |
Sulphuric acid precipitation on Venus 
The bleakness of Uranus
And Jupiter.............all those moons....Europa  |
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<font color=Brown>Music - The Sound Librarian
...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR]
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Guldbamsen
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 08:05 |
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I had a wonderful time on my vacation to Mars last fall, although I forgot my favorite bikini - so there it is.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams
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Icarium
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 08:17 |
I can't diside, this is tougher then to pick between children i don't even have 
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 13:57 |
CPicard wrote:
And, again, it's a solar-sytem-centric poll! 
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Because probably like 3 people here know enough about an exo-system planet to actually have any thoughts about them.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Tuzvihar
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Posted: August 19 2011 at 14:55 |
stonebeard wrote:
You didn't include Pluto. |
Pluto officially is not considered a planet any more.
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"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
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