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Pluto Decision Meets with Frustration
fuzzybunny writes "The BBC reports that the IAU's controversial Prague vote on demoting Pluto from planet status was irregular. 'There were 2,700 astronomers in Prague during that 10-day period. But only 10% of them voted this afternoon.'" On a less serious note, lx writes "Nonplussed by Pluto's recent downgrade from Planet Status, Fox News's own John Gibson does an incredible Stephen Colbert impersonation to correct the 'revisionist history' of the IAU's decision. Exemplifying 'truthiness,' from the article: 'Long ago I learned it was a planet and I see no reason to unlearn it. Why should I?' "
OMG who the fuck cares. Seriously. This whole Pluto thing has got to be the most ridiculous "news" event of my entire life. The only redeeming quality of it all is that it gives Stephen Colbert something to make fun of.
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Wow, frustration. Upset people.
Pluto is sooo damn far from here, you barely know it is there. If you are an astronomer, you probably know what Pluto is and do not really care if they call it a planet, a dwarf, a dwarf planet, a moon, or a damn piece of ruck orbiting that fireball some call the SUN.
And for the rest non astronomers: even if you care about that distant little ball of rock at the very edge of our solar system, does it really matter if you call it a planet?
I mean it was a planet for who knows how long, so why start messing with it now?
Besides: you should have already learned, that Planet Earth is flat and is orbited by the Sun.
Oh well, maybe it is wise sometimes to revise astronomy..... but that much dust around Pluto.
(not to mention a laudable use of unicode), check out Tim Kreider. It's rather moving, actually: "Pluto has rented a tuxedo."
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
...people should not EVAR be required to use their brains after their youthful indoctrination.
You just described the essence of religion.
I'm from Kansas, gimme back my god damned planet. And before you rip me for my state's BOE's stance on evolution, please show me an experiment in which specication took place in multicelular organisms. Really, one of the few spiffy things my state had in pure scince less than 450 stupid fucks take away? I call bullshit. So fucking what if there are a bunch of other damned rocks the same size, or even bigger. From what I understand, we're still talking about fewer bodies than the moons of Jupiter. So, dammit, I want my planet back. Or maybe if you want to take away Kansas's planet, get rid of Mercury to. I mean come on, can you really call Mecrury a planet if it's tidaly locked? That's something that happens to moons.
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I am a layman but I feel it in my gut that it is not right to demote Pluto. Even experts like Physics Professor Bill Blass and NASA's Dr Alan Stern disagree with IAU's decision. As a concerned citizen, I have started a petition against this decision at http://pleasesavepluto.org/ and we need like-minded individuals' support. Thanks in advance.