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Dr. Rosenpenis
24th August 2006, 18:21
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5282440.stm

Astronomers meeting in the Czech capital have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet.
About 2,500 experts were in Prague for the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) general assembly.

The scientists rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club.

Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh.

The ninth planet will now effectively be airbrushed out of school and university textbooks.

The astronomers at the IAU meeting voted by raising their yellow ballot papers for a count.

"The eight planets are Mercury, Earth, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune," said the IAU resolution, which was passed following a week of stormy debate.

These ass-holes think they can just change anything at the whim of 2500 so-called "experts."

As an afront to these bourgeois planet-mongers, I move we begin a fiercely violent campaign to FREE PLUTO from the bloody shackles of dwarf planethood.

You have nothing to lose but your eccentric orbit!
RedAnarchist
24th August 2006, 18:31
Looks like we need a new mnemonic then :lol:
RevolutionaryMarxist
24th August 2006, 19:04
crazy-scientists

Viva La Pluto!
Dr. Rosenpenis
24th August 2006, 19:09
Originally posted by [email protected] 24 2006, 10:32 AM
Looks like we need a new mnemonic then :lol:
my very eager mother served us nothing
RebelDog
25th August 2006, 04:52
Millions of science textbooks have suddenly become obsolete. I believe Pluto is at this moment preparing an appeal.
atlas
26th August 2006, 08:00
well actually only 10% of the scientists in this organization voted. They might vote again. ;)
Palmares
26th August 2006, 08:16
What is Pluto alternatively classed as? And what is the distinct differentiation between the classifaction of a planet and that of which is not, that is, in the case of somethingl ike Pluto, which is "too small" (or whatever excuse they use)?
apathy maybe
26th August 2006, 08:49
Pluto is an icy little bit of rock that is only a "planet" 'cause astronomers thought they had found what they were looking for (another planet beyond Neptune). But they didn't. And it isn't.

And the '10th' planet should be called Rupert 'cause DNA was da man.
apathy maybe
26th August 2006, 09:03
Oh and Pluto is now a pluton or dwarf planet. It is too small to be a real planet, has an eccentric orbit and is generally just a little bit of rock.
MrDoom
26th August 2006, 18:54
I won't miss Pluto. It was just a tiny ice cube with nothing on it. A rocket passing it could melt it with its engine.
Physco Bitch
27th August 2006, 09:37
Poor pluto, why can't they just leave things alone? Fine pluto maybe smaller than the other planets - but i mean come on, many have been brought up being taught about the planets with Pluto being one of them. So now all of us how were brought up being taught that are now going to have to suddenly change and stop thinking of it as a planet. And may i dare ask , how much they paid to have all these scienetist converge in one place and discuss this? However much i guess it was a lot. So what are we to class Pluto as now? What are they going to class it as if they have decided it is not big enough to be a planet? Whom... i suppose i will have to keep a beedy eye and listening ear on this subject.
Taiga
27th August 2006, 10:13
After Pluto watermelon is no longer a berry and humming-bird is no longer a bird.
Comrade J
27th August 2006, 10:34
RIP dear Pluto :(

Actually, I really don't give a fuck.