Goodbye Pluto

by **Buliwyf** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:51 am

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by **petersapien** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:29 am

Didnt see that coming.

by **Sabres** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:01 am

wow, me either.

by **[ecgn] btt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:45 pm

Have you guys been living under a rock. The statues of Pluto has been argued for decades. It's about time they ended it. Now if only we can get all these bright minds to work on more pressing issues. Like alternative energy.

by **Padre** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:49 pm

I've been watching this all week.
I'd rather they went the other way, making 12 planets.

Screw them though - there's still nine in my mind

Many Very Eager Men Just Stay Up Nights Planning, FTW!

by **CreepingCharlie** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:18 pm

Yep still 9 in me. Don't care if its not. Hey they taught me it is and now saying that it isn't. Guess now that they're going to have to change all the solar system books and posters and whatever else has it on it.

by **Major SONAR** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:14 pm

Yeah, but let's not forget about DARK MATTER... the stuff that makes up 95% of the universe (Although that number creeeps downward every year... currently around 80%). Yeah, good stuff that Dark Matter... if you can't figure something out, just pull it out of your ass, then write a few papers, convince a few other scientists.. Whammo.. DARK MATTER!!

Shame about Pluto, but I figured it was coming. Now what is the god of the Underworld going to do??

by **Jungle_Fowl** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:15 pm

Originally posted by Major SONAR
Yeah, but let's not forget about DARK MATTER... the stuff that makes up 95% of the universe (Although that number creeeps downward every year... currently around 80%). Yeah, good stuff that Dark Matter... if you can't figure something out, just pull it out of your ass, then write a few papers, convince a few other scientists.. Whammo.. DARK MATTER!!

That reminds me about what I did in school. If I didn't know what to do I made it up :rotflmao:

by **cavalierlwt** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:12 pm

Alas, Pluto, we hardly knew you!

Alrighty, let's make it official: as tribute to Pluto, cough up a little ode to the former planet, in Haiku form of course

Pluto,cold and dark
proud to be the lonely Ninth
cruely cast aside

by **Chacal** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:25 pm

I didn't even know it was sick!

by **Sabres** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:35 pm

Originally posted by [ECGN] BTT
Now if only we can get all these bright minds to work on more pressing issues. Like alternative energy.

seriously...

by **CodeRed68** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:17 am

I don't see a problem with demoting Pluto to a Kuiper (sp?) Belt object, dwarf planet or something similar. It clearly does not measure up to our other planets, it being smaller than our own moon. There is an object farthur away than Pluto called Xena, but larger, and that is classified as a Kuiper Belt object.
I just think we keep learning more and more about the universe as time goes on which requires us to update our knowledge of what is what out there.

Goodbye Pluto

Goodbye Pluto

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