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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. well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    for me, pluto is still a dog. gooofffyyyy!

  2. Pluto is a dog! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pluto is a dog. The real question is: If Goofy is also a dog, why can Goofy talk, but Pluto is always silent?

    1. Re:Pluto is a dog! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      goofy is a goat.

  3. I live in an alternate universe by HappyCitizen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    YOU INSENSiTIVE CLOD!

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  4. Re:I love this stuff by wed128 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i kinda wanna get buried there...how cool would that be!

  5. Hey Dr. Zowie: Drop the Chalupa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and back slowly out of the room.

  6. Re:I love this stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That would be planet "Jerry Springer".

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Re:OT by hplasm · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    but..

    mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

    PIE!!

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