GeorgeInNePa Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Hot damn! Reality finally reigns. Pluto is not a planet. It and it's companion, Charon, are rogue pieces of the Oort cloud trapped in solar orbit.FWIW, Science does not nor has it ever claimed to produce perfect answers every time. Science's claim, is that it is self-correcting in the light of better evidence. We have better evidence now and Science has now corrected itself. And for everyone that's mad about Pluto being removed as a planet, it's beats the hell out of the alternative that the IAU came very close to approving: adding literally HUNDREDS of malformed rock/ice chunks to the list of planets. I thought it was part of the Kuiper Belt, not the Oort Cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoomZoom Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Hot damn! Reality finally reigns. Pluto is not a planet. It and it's companion, Charon, are rogue pieces of the Oort cloud trapped in solar orbit. FWIW, Science does not nor has it ever claimed to produce perfect answers every time. Science's claim, is that it is self-correcting in the light of better evidence. We have better evidence now and Science has now corrected itself. And for everyone that's mad about Pluto being removed as a planet, it's beats the hell out of the alternative that the IAU came very close to approving: adding literally HUNDREDS of malformed rock/ice chunks to the list of planets. Are you familiar with Carl Sagens book: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark? It’s an interesting look at why people are put off by “real” science and believe pseudo science. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toowide Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 First milk and eggs are good for us, then they are bad for us. Santa, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and now Pluto... God in Heaven what is next? Personally I think the ACLU should sue the scientists on behalf of Pluto because of the damage this announcement has had on its self esteem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 You risk getting Pluto into trouble for impersonating a planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Hot damn! Reality finally reigns. Pluto is not a planet. It and it's companion, Charon, are rogue pieces of the Oort cloud trapped in solar orbit. FWIW, Science does not nor has it ever claimed to produce perfect answers every time. Science's claim, is that it is self-correcting in the light of better evidence. We have better evidence now and Science has now corrected itself. And for everyone that's mad about Pluto being removed as a planet, it's beats the hell out of the alternative that the IAU came very close to approving: adding literally HUNDREDS of malformed rock/ice chunks to the list of planets. I thought it was part of the Kuiper Belt, not the Oort Cloud. Kuiper, Oort, whatever. It came from a source of what we regard as comets. It did not form on the ecliptic like everything else. And yeah, Science gets no love from the general public. A system that doesn't validate everyone's system of personal beliefs and wants will probably never generate traction in the mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoomZoom Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 A system that doesn't validate everyone's system of personal beliefs and wants will probably never generate traction in the mainstream. Unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeInNePa Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Hot damn! Reality finally reigns. Pluto is not a planet. It and it's companion, Charon, are rogue pieces of the Oort cloud trapped in solar orbit. FWIW, Science does not nor has it ever claimed to produce perfect answers every time. Science's claim, is that it is self-correcting in the light of better evidence. We have better evidence now and Science has now corrected itself. And for everyone that's mad about Pluto being removed as a planet, it's beats the hell out of the alternative that the IAU came very close to approving: adding literally HUNDREDS of malformed rock/ice chunks to the list of planets. Are you familiar with Carl Sagens book: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark? It’s an interesting look at why people are put off by “real” science and believe pseudo science. That's a fantastic book. I think I need to read it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Now what in the hell is My Very Excellent Mother going to Serve Us?!?!?!? Huh? Did anybody think of that?!?!?!? I didn't think so!(jhgtyre storms off in search of pizza and a new acronym)...... Exactly! My very educated friend brought up the pluto (not capitalized because it's no longer a planet) thing last night, and my response was that I was sad - that fun sentence I learned in grade school was now a history lesson. And he'd never even heard of the sentence! That was bit a shocking - he's 40+ and a professor at ASU. Maybe it's an Ohio thing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdragon Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Ivan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterLefty Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Exactly! My very educated friend brought up the pluto (not capitalized because it's no longer a planet) thing last night, and my response was that I was sad - that fun sentence I learned in grade school was now a history lesson. And he'd never even heard of the sentence! That was bit a shocking - he's 40+ and a professor at ASU. Maybe it's an Ohio thing.... It's not an Ohio thing, I learned it Texas as My Very Ellegant Mother .... I also learned to spell geography by "George Edward's Old Grandpaw Rode A Pig Home Yesterday." Now I need to return to school and update my degree in Physics. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Iran defies IAU, maintains that Pluto is a planet Pluto IS a planet.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Boudrie Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 And he'd never even heard of the sentence! I'll bet he also never heard "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Round_Gun_Shooter Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 (edited) As he just skulks away Edited September 2, 2006 by Round_Gun_Shooter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgnoyes Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Hey, I didn't know we had this kind of firepower. Imagine! A bunch of over-educated astronomers with nothing better to do get together, take a vote, and POOF the planet Pluto is gone. Alright, who's hiding the deathstar and where? Seriously, anything that size that has 3 moons of its own and is orbiting the sun obviously is a planet, I don't care what the orbital inclination is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve J Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 (edited) after 51 years, they now tell me Pluto doesn't exist. starting to wonder if we really made it to the moon... Our paper says that Pluto has been officially demoted to "dwarf". I thought the proper term we had to use now was "vertically challenged individual"..... I think that would be "gravitationally challenged sphere." Edited September 5, 2006 by Steve J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 [alarm clock: Beep...Beep...Beep] [man rolls out of bed, yawns, stretches] Man: Hey honey, did you sleep OK last night? Woman: Yeah...why? Man: All that talk about Pluto not being a planet doesn't have you all worked up and losing sleep? Woman: The only thing bothering me is Uranus. [man gets up off bed, walks away...<insert fart noise here>...] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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