Pluto no more
Well, Pluto's no longer a planet, nope. It's a "Dwarf Planet" now, but not an actual planet, decreasing our number from 9 to 8.
Poor pluto http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNew...ub=CTVNewsAt11 |
Not Pluto! Anything but Pluto! I'mma gunna miss Pluto...
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My entire childhood, including my unrealistic dream of becoming an astronaut, has been crushed.
Way to go, Pluto. |
Oh ya, I heard that a little while ago. But I think a long with pluto not being a planet anymore the scientists also now declared a lot of other things planets that weren't before.
It's funny because I was thinking about making a thread like this, but I suspecting someone else would make one anyway because its pretty big news. |
nah, those other ones will probably just become "Dwarf Planets"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto has a bit more |
oh ya, they will technically be called dwarf planets like pluto is now.
but look at the bright side, now we'll have an even number of planets! |
... because that makes all the difference.
In my uneducated opinion, they made the right decision though. Pluto was never quite up to the standard set by Venus and Neptune, methinks. |
How boring.
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I MAY, perhaps, point out that I had a thread more-or-less along the lines of this one.
Anyway - Pluto being taken off the list of planets? Well, I personaly don't mind, because if Pluto WASN'T taken off - where would it end? Hundreds of planets in the solar system - we wouldn't be able to remember them. No, I have no problem with eight planets, I just have to remember, when reciting them, to stop myself from saying Pluto. And, to all you people who think it is a shame that pluto had to leave, let me say this - it's still there. It's still called Pluto. It's gone to a better place - the "Dwarf Planet" category, in which it stands proud in comparison with most other such objects. Edit: *Thumps Hobo over back of head* |
whatever.... I hate dose universe - space - cyber - starwars things. Nothing gonna be changed in space, neighter in my life, if buncha of scientist decrease number of planets. Big deal.
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Dammit, Pluto was my favourite planet.
I was hoping Pluto would make the cut as was earlier expected in these deliberations. Alcar... |
Yeah, I read the reports today. And before they took Pluto off of
the list of "classic planets", they were talking about adding three more dwarf planets to the solar system. |
Gutted Pluto....
I'd like to say thanks to those noble Scientists for putting every Science Textbook on the Planet out of date. |
'I remember a day where there was nine planets, not eight!'
Now, what's odd is that you guys are complaining about having all pf the information, saying that Pluto isn't a planet, in the whole world, being out of date. Yet, I hope you realize that now, that if Pluto was considered a planet, the information would still be out of date. And by the next two decades, if Pluto was counted as a planet, there probably would be around 100 planets in the solar system. And every year, at least 2 planets are added to our solar system, making even the newest, one day-old book on planets, out of date. So in reality, this is probably the best choice. Now, for some reason, you guys are acting like Pluto has been demoted to dust. But have you guys realized that this a beginning of dwarf planet history? Now, we can say that we were around when Pluto was declared a dwarf planet! And this doesn't mean that Pluto isn't less interesting, just because it's small! I mean, hey, are babies less interesting, because they have smaller brains? Are cats less popular than dogs, because most are smaller? NO! So why think that Pluto is gone? It's still here, it's just given a smaller name. Yet, now people are going to give our contients a definition. Yes, now that, would be serious. 'I'm from Asia now?' Anyway, my feelings for Pluto is not reduced one bit, yet I was hoping for the 12 planet goal. And the 150 goal. |
Meh, it IS just a loose collection of ice and rock, orbited by even more ice and rock particles.
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But Pluto is big, circular, and was classified as a planet for like, ever.
This fanboygasm Xena gets spit on by me. Its mother was a hamster and its father smelled of elderberries. |
I think we should blow up pluto all together. And in case you need an excuse: It'll be practice in case a huge meteor is about to hit us..
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Phew...
Well, "Xena" has been officialy renamed and is now called Eris, after the Greek goddess of discord, and it's satalite is called Dysnomia (Instead, thank god, of Gabrielle as it had been termed), who was the goddess of lawlessness.
Keeping you up to date on the situation. :dodgy: |
How appropriate...
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These names please me. Thanks Seargentbig.
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Sweet. Look out for apples, Pluto!
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*nukes Pluto*
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