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Post by HStorm on Aug 25, 2006 8:55:48 GMT
As recently alluded to in The Nas Of The World, the planet of Pluto has officially been stripped of its full planetary status, and is now classed as a 'dwarf-satellite', while the other two bodies that were being considered for 'promotion' - Ceres and Charon - have also been dismissed as dwarves.
Poor Pluto. all the way out there, so far from the sun, in the coldest reaches of the Sol system. As if it doesn't have enough problems, now we're not even letting it say that it's a planet. Won't we even let it have its pride?
This may sound like a silly joke, but the decision to change Pluto's status has caused a genuine storm of outrage in astronomy circles.
What do you class it as?
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Post by Naselus on Aug 26, 2006 22:19:32 GMT
It's a lump of ice.
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Post by Thanatos on Aug 28, 2006 1:13:06 GMT
It's a planet, and until someone comes up with a more fitting mnemonic than "My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets" for the remaining eight I shall not be open to persuasion of the opposite.
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Post by Naselus on Sept 3, 2006 17:49:49 GMT
Mainly Varsity Education Makes Juvenile Scientists Uppety Nitwits seems entirely fitting in the circumstances.
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Post by Thanatos on Sept 3, 2006 23:39:43 GMT
Is that your own? It's bloody good!
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Post by modeski on Sept 4, 2006 12:25:44 GMT
I think it's actually a prototype Death Star, and it tests its weapons on deep-space satellites and UFOs.
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Post by Naselus on Sept 4, 2006 16:55:15 GMT
Why, thank you. It took me about ten minutes and a copy of 'The Complete Wordfinder' to come up with it, though. And I nearly got stuck on the J.
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Post by modeski on Sept 4, 2006 21:30:53 GMT
Another point - how is this going to effect the astrological charts?
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Post by Naselus on Sept 6, 2006 0:36:29 GMT
Erm, it's not. Pluto will still be mapped, as will all the other known 'objects'. There will be no difference whatsoever. The entire thing is a pointless and shameful waste of time by a bunch of guys who should be doing something more constructive with their time. Brilliant minds the world over, who have been granted tenure, for Chrissakes, have been arguing like little boys over the correct definitions of a word that everyone already understands, for two damned years. This is not science, this is a stoned conversation at an acid house party.
Why aren't these men doing anything useful with their time? Why aren't they looking into, fer'instance, terraforming for Mars? Possible habitability amongst the myriad moons of Jupiter? Feasibility studies in the making of a solar lense to decrease Global warming? Even just bloody well bricklaying and leaving the pointless debate to their spare time?
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Post by modeski on Sept 6, 2006 6:29:37 GMT
Interesting. As far as terraforming Mars goes, all they really need to do is activate the hand-triggered oxygenation system located deep within the mountains. As soon as the atmosphere is restored and the rains return, we'll be off and running.
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Post by Naselus on Sept 6, 2006 11:10:11 GMT
Well, yes, but the terraforming Mars thing wasjust an example. I know they've already solved it with the inactive alien-manufactured-yet-oddly-enough-human-sustaining life support system.
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