Comments on: Tuesday Turnip

By: Chellis

Chellis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:20:07 +0000

This is my favorite “turn-up” on Goog search: http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/2/google-suggest-thinks-the-internet-is-terrified-of-chinese-people-goog

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:21:52 +0000

Neptune is most definitely NOT the widest planet. Width-to-height, the hands-down winner is Saturn. By sheer diameter, it’s Jupiter. The only way Neptune and “wide” possible go together, as Paula said, would be by orbit. But then again, no one uses the word “wide” to describe an orbit.

And come on, are the results of a simple Google search really worth writing an article about? Especially when you get the information wrong?

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:04:47 +0000

Neptune is definitely not the widest planet in our solar system. Planets are measured by their diameter. Here is a site that shows you the size differences between the planets. http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/psc/PlanetSize.html
Maybe this turnip means to say Neptune has the widest orbit in the solar system?

By: ann

ann — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:27:47 +0000

Have I ever stopped to say how much I like these turnips?
I do, I really do!

By: Carlie

Carlie — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:50:29 +0000

I’m pretty sure a statement like the one in the article would be insinuation height to width ratio.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:13:02 +0000

Neptune is not the “widest” planet in our solar system unless they are using some height to width ratio to make that statement. Are the forgetting to count Saturn and Jupiter?