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I don't mind taking bets on remote chances. Perhaps you could have said that our chances of finding something as big as Quaoar were remote, too, but there it was. The chances I would meet the person that I was going to marry in the basement of the 200-inch Hale Telescope were even more remote, but by now Diane and I had been married almost six months. Remote chances lead to good things, as far as I can tell.
— Aug 31, 2021 06:08PM
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The seven days of the week are even named after the seven original planets. Sunday, Mo[o]nday and Satur[n]day are the most obvious. Tiw was a Germanic god of war, so Tuesday is actually Mars day. Woden was the carrier of the dead, fulfilling one of Mercury's less known jobs. Thor was the Norse god of thunder, like Jupiter, and Friday is the day of Venus in the guise of the Norse Frigga, goddess of married love.
— Aug 31, 2021 04:45PM
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Scientists don't bet much. We are supposed to deal in quantifiable levels of certainty and in statements that can be backed up with experiments and observations. Bets are simple assertions that you think you are right and that you believe what you are saying enough to risk something valuable if you're wrong. There is nothing scientific about a bet at all; in fact, it is almost the opposite of science.
— Aug 31, 2021 04:20PM
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I like planets, but I didn't care enough about Pluto to get up at 4:30 a.m. For me that vote had nothing to do with the ninth planet, it was all about the tenth. I had discovered it, a ball of ice and rock slightly larger than Pluto circling the sun every 580 years. I had been scanning the skies night after night looking for such a thing for most of a decade, and then, one morning, there it finally was.
— Aug 31, 2021 04:03PM
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