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Post by Administrator on Aug 24, 2006 20:35:22 GMT -5
Stripped of its planetary status. I mean, good grief. Been deemed a planet since 1930, but no more. And all of this has upset the 97 year old widow of the guy who discovered that monolith. "I'm not heartbroken. I'm just shook up," Patricia Tombaugh, 93, said in a telephone interview from her home in Las Cruces. Could they not have waited until she died?
Pluto, to sum up, is now known as a "dwarf planet." I do have another query though....who exactly put these people that made this decision in charge anyway? It takes balls to pull a stunt like this.
Bye bye, Planet Pluto. We hardly knew ye!
SHERIFF TOM
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 7:51:49 GMT -5
It had something to do with Pluto's orbit overlapping Neptune's. These guys just had it out for Pluto. Thing is, I remember from school that a year for Pluto is like 250 years. So Pluto was basically a planet for 4 of its months.
What a stupid ex-planet.
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Post by CBC Guy on Aug 25, 2006 10:00:07 GMT -5
I never heard the bit about the year being so long on pluto but it makes sense.
What ever happened to them adding three more planets to the list?
It's true that it takes balls to get a group of people to come together and then tell the world that a planet isn't really a planet.
Whats next?
Let's rename the cumquat. Something with a more appealing name like a beautyfruit or calmery. Just anything but a cumquat.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 25, 2006 10:15:29 GMT -5
It had something to do with Pluto's orbit overlapping Neptune's
Uh...correct me if I am wrong, but would that not mean that Neptune's orbit overlaps Pluto's as well? Why dont we kick Neptune out of the club too.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 10:16:56 GMT -5
An interesting point. They basically redefined the definition of a planet. I'm sure somehow Neptune is ok, but I hadn't considered that. This requires further investigation.
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Post by yanksgooner on Aug 25, 2006 10:44:18 GMT -5
yeah, i heard abt that...they decided pluto was just a chunk of ice never to be visited by any sort of man-made craft.
they're thinking of adding a 'newly discovered' rock into what we describe as our solar system.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 25, 2006 10:57:18 GMT -5
It sounds somewhat discriminatory that Pluto gets the boot just cause we can't be visiting it. Sounds like sour grapes to me.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 11:27:54 GMT -5
I think someone should start a movement to get Pluto its status back. This is discrimination.
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Post by 9 on Aug 25, 2006 11:41:17 GMT -5
I'll get on that just as soon as I finish work on my campaign to bring back the use of the word "house" as a verb.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 25, 2006 11:50:32 GMT -5
I was planning on drafting a proposal to that effect, as soon as I finish up on my current "Get Rid of the Yellow Traffic Light" campaign.
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Post by yanxchick on Aug 25, 2006 14:39:15 GMT -5
Much-maligned Pluto — named for the god of the underworld — doesn't make the grade under new rules that classify a planet as “a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a ... nearly round shape, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.”
Pluto is automatically disqualified because its oblong orbit overlaps with that of Neptune. Pluto will be reclassified in a new category of “dwarf planets,” similar to what long have been termed “minor planets.”
-- as taken from my paper
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 14:42:48 GMT -5
What is unclear is what "clearing the neighborhood around its orbit" means. And none of that answers what Tom pointed it out. Why is Pluto, not Neptune disqualified? Why not both?
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Post by yanxchick on Aug 25, 2006 14:44:44 GMT -5
I don't know. I just copy and pasted. I don't know what it means either.
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Post by 9 on Aug 25, 2006 14:45:01 GMT -5
Neptune had a better agent.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 14:46:19 GMT -5
Come on Suzy, you're the press! Ask the tough questions. This could be your Watergate!
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Post by yanxchick on Aug 25, 2006 14:48:16 GMT -5
Or, I could do my job and write about sports.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 14:49:05 GMT -5
This is bigger than sports! An entire planet is at stake!
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Post by grover on Aug 25, 2006 15:49:00 GMT -5
The thing is with Pluto is that it's so small, that things that are just as big have to be called a planet too, even though they don't have the charastics of a planet. If Pluto were kept a sa planet, then the planet total would have risen by about 3.
The league of geeks went apeshit and decided to go fucking about with this nonsense because they wanted it their way. chances are when we're old they will change it again.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 15:56:36 GMT -5
It's not the size of the planet, it's how it orbits. Besides, I think Mercury is smaller than Pluto.
This Neptune issue is actually annoying. Way to go Tom.
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Post by Chris on Aug 25, 2006 16:30:08 GMT -5
HAAAAAAA!!!!! Sorry, that struck me as being REALLY funny!
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Post by cactusjames on Aug 25, 2006 16:39:07 GMT -5
Hey Balls if you care so much about Pluto go get your buddy Superman to go save it. Screw that stupid planet. People only remember it because it's the last one. It's pathetic, it shouldn't have been called a planet anyway. I'm glad the guy's widow who discovered it is upset it got demoted or whatever, I hope she gets hit by an asteroid. What a dope.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 25, 2006 16:53:42 GMT -5
Sometimes James, you just have to stand up for the little guy. Superman has to deal with changing the course of mighty rivers, he can't deal with some jerks who discriminate against Pluto and not Neptune.
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Post by crazilyz on Aug 26, 2006 12:35:12 GMT -5
Just is time for the school year.
I'm sure some kids are going to be tramatized by a pop quiz on the first day of school.
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Post by cactusjames on Aug 26, 2006 12:45:00 GMT -5
Well if they teach the kids the way I learned all the planets, My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. Just take out the pizza and make the N nachos. If the kids can't grasp that then the world really is doomed.
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Post by 9 on Aug 26, 2006 15:07:35 GMT -5
Heh heh, heh heh, nachos RULE! ;D
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 26, 2006 15:38:54 GMT -5
But James, again, no one has answered the question about why Pluto was dumped and not Neptune. There's a conspiracy going on here. Discrimination. I don't like it.
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Post by cactusjames on Aug 26, 2006 17:04:01 GMT -5
It's a stupid planet that no one cares about. Who cares? Screw Pluto. People only know it becuase of Disney.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 26, 2006 17:05:43 GMT -5
I hope you don't think Pluto is named after a dog.
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Post by cactusjames on Aug 26, 2006 17:09:33 GMT -5
No the dog was named after the ex planet I think. But people who have trouble with planets tend to remember that one because of the freakin' dog.
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Post by MSBNYY on Aug 26, 2006 17:14:03 GMT -5
Pluto the planet was named after the Roman god of the underworld. Hades, in Greek.
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