So they now say Pluto is not a planet!

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  • Mookie Baylock
    Mookie Baylock Posts: 90
    pickupyourwill wrote:
    :D


    Its funny. I was reading a picture book to my son last night and it had the solar system in it!! I had never read that book to him before so had no idea it had the planets in it---it has all different kinds of topics. It had all nine planets laid out around the sun and I pointed to Pluto and sadly told him the truth. Then I thought about getting a black marker to X it out, so that he won't be confused one day when he learns how to read and stumbles across the expired solar system. *tear*

    It's funny, but like I said before, this type of reclassification in science happens all the time, with species types, rock types, chemical types, etc. Astronomy is such a mainstream topic that when it is changed everyone takes notice. The scientists have an obligation to increasing knowledge and, given recent findings really had no choice.
    But this really doesn't affect our daily lives. Pluto is still the same icy rock it's been for the last 4 billion years. For all intents and purposes, we can continue calling it a planet.
    "Science has proof without certainty... Religion has certainty without proof"
    -Ashley Montagu
  • Uncle Leo
    Uncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Mookie Baylock wrote:
    It's funny, but like I said before, this type of reclassification in science happens all the time, with species types, rock types, chemical types, etc. Astronomy is such a mainstream topic that when it is changed everyone takes notice. The scientists have an obligation to increasing knowledge and, given recent findings really had no choice.
    But this really doesn't affect our daily lives. Pluto is still the same icy rock it's been for the last 4 billion years. For all intents and purposes, we can continue calling it a planet.

    Mookie: Love your sig. Since you have it in quotes--is there someone in particular that "coined" that?
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • Mookie Baylock
    Mookie Baylock Posts: 90
    Uncle Leo wrote:
    Mookie: Love your sig. Since you have it in quotes--is there someone in particular that "coined" that?

    I found that quote in a book in one of those little quote sections before a chapter, but I can't remember who it was attruibuted to. The book is at my house, but I'm away right now so I can't check it for you. Stephen Jay Gould is ringing a bell, but I'm probably way off...
    "Science has proof without certainty... Religion has certainty without proof"
    -Ashley Montagu
  • WickedJeremy
    WickedJeremy Posts: 229
    prism wrote:
    wait, there was a Greek god named Uranus? betcha the reason that we never heard anything about him was because he was such an asshole.
    LMFAO!!!!
    -Jeremy
  • WickedJeremy
    WickedJeremy Posts: 229
    I'm not reading all of this thread, so maybe this has been brought up but I heard on KET that if Pluto were where the earth is, it would grow a tail. I don't know what the fuck they were talking about but thats what my TV said to me.
    -Jeremy
  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    WickedJeremy wrote:
    I'm not reading all of this thread, so maybe this has been brought up but I heard on KET that if Pluto were where the earth is, it would grow a tail. I don't know what the fuck they were talking about but thats what my TV said to me.

    It's like the comets. So cold and made of ice, that when it gets close to the sun, the sun starts smelting the whole thing, and forces the vapour away from the sun, hence the tail.

    Astrophysics is fun! :)

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Planet is a literary magazine based in Wales.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(magazine)http://www.mrs-twedt.com/fcat_science_glossary_part_1.htm

    This made me laugh out loud
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • WickedJeremy
    WickedJeremy Posts: 229
    OutOfBreath wrote:
    It's like the comets. So cold and made of ice, that when it gets close to the sun, the sun starts smelting the whole thing, and forces the vapour away from the sun, hence the tail.

    Astrophysics is fun! :)

    Peace
    Dan

    I was all intrigued until you had to and explain it. I was hoping it was alive. Pluto the underdog is on the rise people. He will grow tired of being last and cold. He will soon find his glory, grow a tail and attack earth in a fiery Armageddon! YEAH! See, isn't that better than, ice, er, vapor, detail, blah blah...lol.
    -Jeremy
  • OutOfBreath
    OutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    WickedJeremy wrote:
    I was all intrigued until you had to and explain it. I was hoping it was alive. Pluto the underdog is on the rise people. He will grow tired of being last and cold. He will soon find his glory, grow a tail and attack earth in a fiery Armageddon! YEAH! See, isn't that better than, ice, er, vapor, detail, blah blah...lol.
    Well, yeah... :D

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

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