Pluto Sucks And Is Not Welcome Here (He Knows What He Did) Thursday, August 24, 2006
#16
Posted 24 August 2006 - 08:18 PM
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#18
Posted 24 August 2006 - 10:29 PM
Yeah, if we keep picking on the smaller planets (and acting like the UN) we will have a Galactic Rebelion on our hands!
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#19
Posted 25 August 2006 - 12:18 AM
'back in my day, when pluto was classified as a planet....'
oh man, I'm totally working that into a story next time I tell one.
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....We'd be lying though.
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#20
Posted 25 August 2006 - 07:06 AM
This is also what I mean by mixed messages.
I mean by classing eight planets in the solar system by groups which excludes the dwarf planets. The grouping sounds okay to me but what I see is that they are making the dwarf planets sound less important by prioitizing them by size. Correct me if I am wrong here but this is my understanding.
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#21
Posted 25 August 2006 - 08:15 AM
So my theory is that everyone is picking on Pluto becouse its small.
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#22
Posted 27 August 2006 - 07:47 AM
What I am annoyed at is that some guy named his 'planet' Zena, completely breaking the awesome chain of Roman mythology. I mean come on. Zena?
I'm also annoyed at all this talk of people's mothers. The only way allowed to learn the order of the planet's is(now was) "My Very Earthly Man, Just Show Us Nature's Plan". All other ways are clearly inferior.
Finally, the Ministry of Truth seems to be slowing down. The textbooks still claim Pluto to be a planet. Every practicer of doublethink should know that not only is Pluto not a planet, it was never a planet.
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#23
Posted 27 August 2006 - 10:19 PM
Score one for the kid.
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This is a way of letting others into the party (sort of). Kepler and Herschell weren't really talking to Tombaugh anyway, let some new blood in. Dwarf planets. Yeah, that's it. Tombaugh, go chat with 'em in the foyer.
Which does kind of make sense. They probably won't be discovering any more Ancient planets, Modern planets closed long ago. Pluto was invited to the party. But now the host is constantly being pestered: "Let me in. In truth, I have more of a right than him ("Aren't you listening to me? I'm fucking Xena"!)
When I think: "Saturn", or "Mars". I think of gods of war. Pluto* is a Disney dog. No? Pluto is named after a god of the underworld? There's the sudden appeal.
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(*What is the deal with a Mouse being master of his DOG? And this Mouse is a Friend of another dog; Goofy, who talks? And there were other dogs who spoke, the Beagle Boys, who looked NOTHING like beagles?)
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#24
Posted 28 August 2006 - 12:05 AM
I was genuinely suprised nobody had started with the puns.
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#25
Posted 28 August 2006 - 02:11 PM
BTW: Nice avatar.
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#29
Posted 29 August 2006 - 04:13 PM
RICHARD GRAY
SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
THE solar system's biggest planets are at risk of being stripped of their status after the world's top astronomers voted to downgrade Pluto into the dwarf planet category.
Experts claim that the definition for planets adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) could also see Neptune downgraded.
They say that both planets fail to meet all the criteria set by the IAU.
But other leading astronomers insist the decision to demote Pluto to the status of a "dwarf planet" has allowed them to deal with the difficult problem that there are several other Pluto-like objects orbiting our Sun.
Earlier this month the IAU proposed increasing the number of planets to 12 by recognising three new planets, the asteroid Ceres, Pluto's moon Charon and the distant world known as 2003 UB313.
Many scientists feared this could spark an ever-increasing number of planets being named as more and more smaller objects were discovered orbiting the Sun.
But following days of heated debate, scientists eventually took the decision to adopt guidelines that saw Pluto relegated to a secondary category of dwarf planets.
The vote has now left teachers and text book writers with the task of drastically revising the view of the solar system.
In the definition set by the astronomers, all planets must now "orbit the Sun, have sufficient mass for its gravity to form a nearly-round shape and have cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit".
Pluto was downgraded as its orbit crosses with that of Neptune, meaning that it was classed as a dwarf planet as it had not cleared its orbit.
But critics claim that the IAU vote, which was passed by a majority, should be abandoned as only around 400 of the union's 10,000 members took part in the vote in Prague last week.
Martin Hendry, a senior lecturer in astronomy at Glasgow University and member of the IAU, said: "Unless the science underlying this is rigorous, how can we expect to agree on a definition that will be not only understood by ourselves, but other forms of life if and when we encounter them?"
Planetologists have now started a campaign to have Pluto reinstated.
Astronomers leading the Nasa New Horizons mission that will explore the distant regions of the solar system including Pluto, described last week's decision as "muddled".
Harold Weaver, from the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and a New Horizons project scientist, said: "Since many 'Plutinos', including Pluto, cross Neptune's orbit, I'd say Neptune's neighbourhood still needs some clearing."
But Professor John Brown, Scotland's Astronomer Royal, who was unable to vote due to work commitments, said: "I am a little sorry to see Pluto 'demoted', but overall it makes sense. We have always referred to four 'Terrestrial Planets', four 'Giants' and Pluto. This is now extended to three categories, adding Dwarf Planets."
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If scientists keep doing stuff like this they're going to just stop teaching it in schools and start ignoring stuff they say.
Can't we just say that everything that is big and round in space is a planet as long as it's bigger than ten feet across?
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