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Old 21-July-2005, 06:16 PM
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‘Cosmic Botox’ bashes asteroid wrinkles away

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Meteoroid impacts can give facelifts to asteroids, knocking hundreds of millions of years off their apparent age. The finding casts doubt on the reliability of current asteroid dating methods.
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/sorry thats what first came to mind when I read the thread title.
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Old 21-July-2005, 06:31 PM
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And I thought I was going to see some cogent discussion here... :roll:
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And I thought I was going to see some cogent discussion here... :roll:
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Plus the whole long distance relationship thing.
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I've always found there is only a very weak attraction. Plus the few I've gotten close to have had a rather vacuous aura about them. Then when it's time to break up, they get perturbed.
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And it's not like you can call them up and suggest a movie tonight. I've found that most of them don't even have a phone!!!
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You must just be trying the wrong asteroids. Might i suggest Eros?
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Old 22-July-2005, 02:57 AM
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And I thought I was going to see some cogent discussion here... :roll:
Puh-lease :wink:

This group? With a thread title like that? Frankly, I'd have been disappointed if this thread hadn't taken the path it did

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And I thought I was going to see some cogent discussion here... :roll:
This group? With a thread title like that? Frankly, I'd have been disappointed if this thread hadn't taken the path it did
Sorry ToSeek but I have to agree with the majority. Dating, in the romantic sense, was the first thing I thought of when I read the thread's title. Serious discussions require serious titles!

That, and it's hard to send asteroids flowers.
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In any case, it's an interesting link, Toseek, as the vast majority of your links are. I just don't see much that needs commentary on. It's an interesting line of thought.
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I'll just have to be sure to put really boring titles on threads from now on.
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Perhaps after this you'll differentiate the subject better!

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Old 22-July-2005, 11:05 PM
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Asteroids are out of this world! Everyone should date an asteroid...at least once. :wink:
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That, and it's hard to send asteroids flowers.
Although it may not seem so after Deep Impact. I'll bet some asteroids are already jealous of that floosy iceball. :wink: