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  1. Twelve Planets?

     

    The new ones: Ceres, Charon and Xena. Ceres is an asteroid, Charon is Pluto's "moon", but more of a twin, Xena is a distant ice ball, larger than Pluto, and part of the Kuiper Belt.

     

    The definition of a planet? It must be round and not a moon. Charon doesn't count because the center of gravity of the pair is between them and not inside Pluto.

     

    I think they ought to just cut it off at 8 planets, excluding Pluto.

  2. Speaking of bitterness, here's a story. There is a company in Yakima called Yakima Chief which uses supercritical CO2 to extract pure hop oils from the flowers. This stuff is super concentrated. It takes an itty bitty quantity of this stuff to brew beer.

     

    We received a one ounce sample for testing in the lab. My friend Ward, for some reason, took a finger and wiped it over the surface of the yellowish paste and applied it to his tongue. You should have seen his face. He said it was the most intense bitter taste he'd ever experienced. It took hours before it went away.

  3. anyone know of any good backcountry cragging in washington? somewhere you can backpack in and camp - and do some cragging? i can come up with some in WY, CO, and ID - but couldn't for WA.
    Try Mt. Stuart. I hear that there are some long routes on it. It's quite a crag.
  4. i think the white stuff on the out side of my orange after i peal it is bitter frown.gif
    Naringenin, Muffy. It's good for you. It helps repair your DNA. DNA is like a set of directions. The words have to be spelled right, or they don't make sense. Naringenin fixes spelling mistakes in DNA. grin.gif
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