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Title text: 'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.' |
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Ponytail and Beret Guy are fishing in the middle of a body of water, and Beret Guy has hooked a rock. Similarly to the common meme that sees people catching objects such as boots and shopping trollies, he exclaims that it "feels like a big one". Fishers may judge the size of a fish by the amount of resistance they feel on the line, and such objects would provide an unusually high level of resistance. (Also, the boat would be bulled down when reeling, so they could only tell that their downward pull is greater than the boat's buoyancy.) In this case, though, Beret Guy can apparently feel that it must be "at least 1024 kilograms" — that is, an object the size of the Earth in its entirety, whose mass can be estimated at approximately 6.0x1024 kilograms (~13.1x1024 pounds at standard gravitational acceleration of the Earth).
Catch-and-release sizes restrict what sizes of catch of various species can be kept, generally to protect stocks. There may be minimum sizes (to protect young fish and ensure that they can reach mature reproductive age) or maximum sizes (to protect existing breeding populations). Apparently, the Earth is large enough to be kept, suggesting that smaller planets and other bodies (perhaps such as Pluto, for example) might be considered immature, and that they might be expected to grow to 'adult' planet size.
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- [Ponytail and Beret Guy are sitting on a boat in the ocean. Fish are seen swimming in the water. Megan has a fishing rod that is about halfway down to the ocean floor. Beret Guy's fishing hook is hooked onto the sea floor.]
- Beret Guy: It feels like a big one! At least 1024 kilograms!
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This is a test. PoolloverNathan[stalk the blue seas] 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- This is not. —While False (museum | talk | contributions | logs | rights | printable version | page information | what links there | related changes | Google search | current time: 13:36) 18:38, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
- A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
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interesting way of writing quotations xd
- hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line
- Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
hi uh its hard to get here.
is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
108.162.241.216 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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