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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. Maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know one thing is certain: Uranus exists. I eat it every night.

  2. my plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    lets call it the GNAA planet

    then open up a movie theater to play Gay Niggers from Outer Space 24/7 on it and make $$$ (profit)

  3. Ach mein Gott! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm generally not attracted to men, but my God something about Hitler just drives me absolutely batty! That dramatic sweep of hair across his brow, like he just tossed his head and there it fell, a cascade of black like the velvet curtain of night. I want him to take me on the hood of a King Tiger, its 1400 horsepower engine revving as he violates the virginal secrets of my Eagle's Nest. I picture it like those glorious mass rallies the Nazis used to have. There he is lovingly pounding away at my second front while legions of goose-stepping Aryans march past and salute our union. Just as Hitler is about to empty his tiny ubermenschen into the expanse of my Liebe-raum a wing of Stukas will fly overhead, their sirens howling in synchronicity with the primal cries of pleasure from Der Fuehrer. My god, what a man!