Got Planets?

[Beyond]

Back when i used to make homemade apple pies, i used rectangular pans. I really liked the corner pieces of pie. They were so good for holding and eating with one hand.

[BMAONE23]

I actually like crunchy, crumbly cookies. I thought everyone liked them like that for a long time but then sometime in high school maybe I learned that soft was the preferred texture.

Soft generally means they were made with too much sugar. I agree, a bit more crunchy/crumbly is better.

The industry terms are "chewy" and "crunchy" -- and they are completely different beasts, made with quite a different proportion of ingredients. A soft (chewy) cookie doesn't have too much sugar in it, it has the right amount for a soft cookie. Examples of chewy cookies would be chocolate chip or molasses cookies. Examples of hard (crunchy) cookies would be ginger snaps or shortbreads.

Most of the time, if a cookie that should be chewy is hard but not crunchy, it just means the baker mixed them too much, developing too much of the gluten, or maybe they used the wrong kind of flour. But if they follow a good recipe and have some idea what they're doing, it's easy to make the different kinds consistently chewy or crunchy, as desired.

I know whereof I speak...

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Rob

Such a toroid affair

[geckzilla]

This is possibly one of the most abjectly derailed threads in the history of Asterisk.

[BDanielMayfield]

This is possibly one of the most abjectly derailed threads in the history of Asterisk.

Quite so. It even resisted my attempt to get it back on track.

Oh well. As the Borg say, "resistance is futile".

[rstevenson]

This is possibly one of the most abjectly derailed threads in the history of Asterisk.

Er, um, no ... it's like this. We were talking about planets, and planets -- at least planets like Earth -- likely have plate techtonics, and plate techtonics can be likened to the crustiness of cookies, and like, ... um ..., yeah, like that. See?

Rob

[Chris Peterson]

This is possibly one of the most abjectly derailed threads in the history of Asterisk.

Er, um, no ... it's like this. We were talking about planets, and planets -- at least planets like Earth -- likely have plate techtonics, and plate techtonics can be likened to the crustiness of cookies, and like, ... um ..., yeah, like that. See?

And the train wreck continues...

[Beyond]

Chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew...

[MargaritaMc]

I thought I'd put in my twopennyworth (but not about cookies, as I'm on a diet... )


First, our friend Wikipedia, on the estimate for exoplanets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet
An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet that does not orbit Earth's Sun and instead orbits a different star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf. Over 1800 exoplanets have been discovered (1822 planets in 1137 planetary systems including 467 multiple planetary systems as of 29 September 2014).[5] There are also free floating planets, not orbiting any star, which tend to be considered separately, especially if they are free floating gas giants, in which case they are often counted, like WISE 0855–0714, as low-mass brown dwarfs.[6]

The Kepler mission space telescope has also detected a few thousand[7][8] candidate planets,[9][10] of which about 11% may be false positives.[11] There is at least one planet on average per star.[3] Around 1 in 5 Sun-like stars[a] have an "Earth-sized" planet in the habitable zone,

with the nearest expected to be within 12 light-years distance from Earth.[12][13] Assuming 200 billion stars in the Milky Way,[d] that would be 11 billion potentially habitable Earths, rising to 40 billion if red dwarf stars are included.[14] The free-floating planets in the Milky Way possibly number in the trillions.[15]

Note 3:Cassan, A.; et al. (2012). "One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations". Nature 481 (7380): 167–169. arXiv:1202.0903. Bibcode:2012Natur.481..167C. doi:10.1038/nature10684. PMID 22237108

And now, the derivation of the word "planet", also from Wikipedia:

The planets in early Greek astronomy
The name "planet" comes from the Greek term πλανήτης (planētēs), meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Five planets can be seen with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Sometimes the luminaries, the Sun and Moon, are added to the list of naked eye planets to make a total of seven.

Margarita

[owlice]

The planets in early Greek astronomy
The name "planet" comes from the Greek term πλανήτης (planētēs), meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Five Six planets can be seen with the naked eye: Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Sometimes the luminaries, the Sun and Moon, are added to the list of naked eye planets to make a total of seven eight.

Margarita

Fixed it.

[Chris Peterson]

The planets in early Greek astronomy
The name "planet" comes from the Greek term πλανήτης (planētēs), meaning "wanderer", as ancient astronomers noted how certain lights moved across the sky in relation to the other stars. Five Six planets can be seen with the naked eye: Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Sometimes the luminaries, the Sun and Moon, are added to the list of naked eye planets to make a total of seven eight. :shock:

Margarita

Fixed it. 8-)

Sort of. Earth wasn't considered a planet in antiquity. So if you're including everything we now treat as a planet which is visible with the naked eye, you need to include Uranus to the list.

[Beyond]

Sort of. Earth wasn't considered a planet in antiquity. So if you're including everything we now treat as a planet which is visible with the naked eye, you need to include Uranus to the list.

So depending on the alignment of the planets in the night sky that you're looking at, you may have to look behind you to see Uranus.

[MargaritaMc]

Sort of. Earth wasn't considered a planet in antiquity. So if you're including everything we now treat as a planet which is visible with the naked eye, you need to include Uranus to the list.

My was seeing The Sun listed as a planet

planet (n.) Online Etymology Dictionary
late Old English planete, from Old French planete (Modern French planète), from Late Latin planeta, from Greek planetes, from (asteres) planetai "wandering (stars)*," from planasthai "to wander," of unknown origin, possibly from PIE *pele- (2) "flat, to spread" on notion of "spread out." So called because they have apparent motion, unlike the "fixed" stars. Originally including also the moon and sun; modern scientific sense of "world that orbits a star" is from 1630s.

* So Lee Marvin was correct: he was born under "a wandering star"...