Pluto Under Attack!

[shereads]

It is too a planet! You can't just go around randomly decreeing that certain planets aren't planets anymore because the rules have changed. What's next? Small dogs no longer qualify as dogs? Subcompact cars aren't cars? Wombats aren't...whatever wombats are?

Nine planets wasn't an impressive number to begin with; minus Pluto, we're left with a paltry eight planets. Pathetic.

If we don't defend Pluto now, the Plutonians will do it - using weapons of mass destruction that make Hiroshima look like something your kid threw together for the school science fair.

Give back Pluto's planet status, dammit.

 

[S-Des]

I read that today and was just shocked. So now what, do we tell our kids that they can just learn eight? Talk about dumbing down . Now we have to go buy those crappy models again (or rip Pluto off the old ones). My child will be crushed, she loves that planet...seriously, she thinks it's the coolest.

Scientists suck

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I read that today and was just shocked. So now what, do we tell our kids that they can just learn eight? Talk about dumbing down . Now we have to go buy those crappy models again (or rip Pluto off the old ones). My child will be crushed, she loves that planet...seriously, she thinks it's the coolest.

Scientists suck

It's still a planet... it's just a dwarf planet.

Remember when there were hampsters, and everyone got one, and we built all those big huge plastic tunnels and everything for them to run through?

And then all of a sudden, there were dwarf hampsters, teeny tiny little versions of the big guys (only meaner)...

this is kinda like that...

without all the plastic tubing and the metal wheel and stuff...

 

[NoJo]

It's still a planet... it's just a dwarf planet.

Remember when there were hampsters, and everyone got one, and we built all those big huge plastic tunnels and everything for them to run through?

And then all of a sudden, there were dwarf hampsters, teeny tiny little versions of the big guys (only meaner)...

this is kinda like that...

without all the plastic tubing and the metal wheel and stuff...

Sorry, that explanation was way over my head. Remember, we're not all astrophysicists like you, SK.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Sorry, that explanation was way over my head. Remember, we're not all astrophysicists like you, SK.

 

[R. Richard]

Now wait a damn minute! It is easy just to automatically defend Pluto. However, Pluto has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with respect to the other planets. [Does not play well with others.] Pluto's orbit takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune during portions of Pluto's orbit. [Pushy, tries to move into neighbor's territory.] In addition, the Plutonians are rather cold beings. [Do not play well with others.] [You can look up the average temperature on Pluto.]

On the other hand, I think "dwarf planet" is demeaning. How about "compact planet?"

I think we can find a middleground solution here.

 

[Liar]

What's next? Small dogs no longer qualify as dogs?

They bloody well shouldn't.

 

[Guest]

They bloody well shouldn't.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/pm/PHD0308_p~Great-Dane-and-Chihuahua-Posters.jpg
I rest Liar's case.

 

[temptanddestroy]

Reality is subjective

Know how the tomato is really a fruit but everyone still puts it in salads?

Pluto is still in my planet salad and always will be!!!!!

If everyone ignores the men in white coats they have no power over us...

Temptie xxx

 

[shereads]

Now wait a damn minute! It is easy just to automatically defend Pluto. However, Pluto has an eccentric orbit that is highly inclined with respect to the other planets. [Does not play well with others.] Pluto's orbit takes it closer to the Sun than Neptune during portions of Pluto's orbit. [Pushy, tries to move into neighbor's territory.] In addition, the Plutonians are rather cold beings. [Do not play well with others.] [You can look up the average temperature on Pluto.]

I'll bet Pluto has some unflattering things to say about us, too. Mostly water; mosquitos; the continuing popularity of Britney Spears. Etcetera.

Who says Pluto's orbit is eccentric? Maybe Pluto is the only one doing it right.

On the other hand, I think "dwarf planet" is demeaning. How about "compact planet?"

I think we can find a middleground solution here.

Size-Challenged Solar System Partner.

 

[Vincent E]

Personally I am not all that heartbroken that Pluto has been given the boot. It's kind of like Survivor: The Solar System. Let's vote Mercury out next week. It's not much bigger than Pluto, and burnt to a crsip.

Pluto and Mercury: a couple of useless bookends.

 

[shereads]

Know how the tomato is really a fruit but everyone still puts it in salads?

That's not the same. The boundary between fruit-appropriate and vegetable-appropriate foods came down like the Berlin Wall the day I added some fresh tangerine pieces and dried cranberries to a salad of field greens, walnuts and balsamic vinaigrette. It worked.

A peanut isn't a nut, by the way. It's a tuber.

An avocado isn't a vegetable. It's a nut.

But Pluto is a planet.

 

[rgraham666]

I love watching people argue semantics.

 

[shereads]

I love watching people argue semantics.

Argue? Or debate?

 

[NoJo]

Actually, Pluto does qualify as a small dog.

 

[rgraham666]

Argue? Or debate?

There's some semantics right there.

Brilliant, Joe.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Actually, Pluto does qualify as a small dog.

Damit! I almost choked to death on this one.

 

[Aurora Black]

I'm going to miss Pluto, it rocked ass. It was the "Cocoon" planet. 247.7 years for each revolution around the sun.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

We should be happy for Pluto. It may no longer be a planet, but it won a girlfriend, Xena.

 

[moonlight elf]

Actually, Pluto does qualify as a small dog.

 

[kendo1]

Actually, Pluto does qualify as a small dog.

Just spotted this. *chuckles*

Excellent, Joe

Ken

 

[CharleyH]

It is too a planet! You can't just go around randomly decreeing that certain planets aren't planets anymore because the rules have changed. What's next? Small dogs no longer qualify as dogs? Subcompact cars aren't cars? Wombats aren't...whatever wombats are?

Nine planets wasn't an impressive number to begin with; minus Pluto, we're left with a paltry eight planets. Pathetic.

If we don't defend Pluto now, the Plutonians will do it - using weapons of mass destruction that make Hiroshima look like something your kid threw together for the school science fair.

Give back Pluto's planet status, dammit.

LOL - IT IS A ROCK ... like Alcatraz damn you! Am I about to be beat up by grade three ankle biters now? and scared - WOMBATS? lol Damned wombats!

Edit to add - I thought the AH damned and extincted (?word?) them 2 years ago, anyhow? Bloody, ghostly rodents those wombats are!

 

[kendo1]

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/planet/pluto.gif

 

[AngeloMichael]

It was a moon of Neptune's that got too uppity and decided to break orbit. It got named as a planet in 1930 and that just inflated its ego all the more. It's about damn time it got downgraded.

Some may admire it's brazeness, but that still don't make it a planet.

 

[Pure]

pluto can now play with sedna. things are as they should be.