Steven Cloud

Cananopie: See these yet? [BP Oil Spill Pictures]

steven.cloud: oh, yeah. i wish the plague would just do us in

Cananopie: quitter

steven.cloud: i’m not suggesting we quit, i’m suggesting the plague is slacking.

Cananopie: haha

The Asteroid Belt

Steven Cloud:  why doesn't the asteroid belt coalesce?
Cananopie:  I noticed that the orbits between Mars and Jupiter (where the asteroid belt is) looks as though there ought to be a planet there instead of the asteroid belt. Has it ever been considered that the asteroid belt was maybe a destroyed planet?
The Answer
Thank you for your question! The fact that the asteroid belt has such a well-defined, high concentration of asteroids suggests two things. One, that they are fragments of a planet that broke-up long ago, or two, that they are rocks that never managed to accumulate into a genuine planet. Currently, scientists tend to favor the latter explanation. According to Eric Chaisson and Steve McMillan, the authors of the text book "Astronomy Today", 1993 edition, "There is far too little mass in the belt to constitute a planet, and the marked chemical differences between individual asteroids strongly suggest that the asteroids could not all have originated in a single planet. Instead, astronomers believe that the strong gravitational field of Jupiter continuously disturbs the motions of these chunks of primitive matter, nudging and pulling at them, thereby prohibiting them from aggregating into a planet. The existence and composition of the asteroid belt joins the general properties of the planets and their moons on our list of features that any theory of solar system formation must explain."
- NASA
Steven Cloud:  fucking nasa
Cananopie:  The culmination of humanity prior to our generation just winced with what ease I found the information
Steven Cloud:  haha

Pijohos: saw a dude in a prius throw an ipod out of his window
Pijojos: it was DIVINE

Steven Cloud: wow, if you could have taken a picture… that would be our generation’s ‘dust bowl mom’ picture

Chat

GreggWithTwoGs: http://jeffgreenspan.com/goodbye-rga.mov

Steven Cloud: lame

GreggWithTwoGs: yeah, not really.

Steven Cloud: i’m glad you find some enjoyment in it

GreggWithTwoGs: no you’re not. that’s just something you’re saying. you love to pick apart people and institutions that don’t mean what they say, yet there you go. i very seriously doubt that you find any joy in knowing that i liked it. that’s bullshit steven.

GreggWithTwoGs: maybe you can grab me a t-shirt before you leave the Hypocrite City gift shop.

Steven Cloud: haha

GreggWithTwoGs: you are a cynic and conan o-brien hates nothing more than YOU.

Steven Cloud: i secretly prefer letterman.

GreggWithTwoGs: word

Eleven contestants will battle for the “gamer’s ultimate dream job,” testing PlayStation games

pijohos: http://kotaku.com/5453899/meet-the-cast-of-sonys-reality-show-the-tester

Steven Cloud: what do testers make?

pijohos: 8-15hr
pijohos: max

pijohos: a reality show to get a minimum wage job

Steven Cloud: haha exactly
Steven Cloud: that’s where we are now as a society
Steven Cloud: it’s a DREAM to make just above the poverty level