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Is {pluto|sedna} A Planet?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-votes-for-maybe dept.

Dr. Zowie writes "NASA's announcement last week of Sedna's discovery reignited the debate over whether Pluto is a planet. Dr. Alan Stern a noted planetary scientist and leader of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, pours on some gasoline with this article in which he skewers the various arguments against Pluto-as-planet. Choice quotes include 'You wouldn't deny a chihauhau a place among dogs because it is too small,' and 'if your brain was so completely full of names of people that it just couldn't take any more, would anyone new who you met after that, therefore not be a person?'"

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  1. Not to be pedantic, but... by J'raxis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't that be (pluto|sedna), if you were thinking of regexps, or {pluto,sedna} if you were thinking of shell expansions?

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  2. man perlre by Michael.Forman · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Is {pluto|sedna} a Planet?

    Speaking of planets, what kind of crazy regular-expression planet do you come from?

    Your alternatives don't require grouping (if they did use parentheses not curly braces) and you have to quote the special character "?", as such:
    Is Pluto|Sedna a planet\?

    All obscure regular expression trolls are required to be modded as funny or insightful as per the Slashdot moderation guidelines.

    Michael.

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  3. Re:OT by hplasm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    but..

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    PIE!!

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