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Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
Is Pluto a planet after all? New Scientist wrote: The decision caused outrage among many members of the public who had grown up with nine planets, and among some astronomers who pointed out that only 4 per cent of the IAU's 10,000 members took part in the vote. The governors of Illinois saw the decision as a snub to Pluto's discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, who was born in the state. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327181.600-is-pluto-a-planet-after-all.html |
Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0 |
Is Pluto a planet after all? Yes, of course it is, it always has been and always will be. The IAU are a bunch of clowns, nobody takes them seriously. |
Send message Joined: 15 Feb 09 Posts: 350 Credit: 505,956 RAC: 0 |
It is still a planet...and an interesting destination. |
Send message Joined: 29 Sep 08 Posts: 1618 Credit: 46,511,893 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 15 Feb 09 Posts: 350 Credit: 505,956 RAC: 0 |
It is still a planet...and an interesting destination. As soon as my ship comes in. |
Send message Joined: 10 Nov 07 Posts: 441 Credit: 761,827 RAC: 0 |
I've said it before, somewhere else. It's not a planet. Look up the evolution of definitions surrounding terms in calculus and you'll see why a change in definitions, and thus a classification of Pluto, does not bother me. The character of that put forth the revision does not matter; what matters is the ability of the definitions to adequately describe what is observed and further communication between fellow astronomers. It is not to satisfy a discoverer, a state's governor, Disney etc. ... . |
Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
It is still a planet...and an interesting destination. I think the ship heading to Pluto took off already. In fact It's been gone since 2006 according to the Wiki article Here, Maybe You could catch It with a Saturn V, But I hear You might need a time machine to get on one. :D Space Launch Complex 41 during New Horizons launch (Jan 19th, 2006) |
Send message Joined: 19 May 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 1,062,540 RAC: 0 |
Maybe You could catch It with a Saturn V ........ I read somewhere that they could not even build a Saturn V today. Something about the blueprints for it being locked away in an ancient computer format that they can no longer access. Regards, Bill |
Send message Joined: 30 Jan 09 Posts: 56 Credit: 85,464 RAC: 0 |
You bet Uranis Pluto is a planet. _________________ *** BOFH excuse #141: disks spinning backwards - toggle the hemisphere jumper. |
Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
Maybe You could catch It with a Saturn V ........ Actually the problem is Apollo systems are old 60's technology and Boeing isn't setup or funded to reverse engineer the old stuff made for NASA back then, On the Saturn V Blueprints, Their on microfilm at the Marshall Space Flight Center according to space.com. And as such their quite readable, The electronics from back then would need massive updating and that could be expensive too, I'd trust NASA. |
Send message Joined: 19 May 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 1,062,540 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for that Space.com link. Very interesting ! I still say that, if they can produce the microfilm and, we get the German’s to create a clone of Wernher von Braun. Remember ‘The Boy’s from Brazil ? We will be able to recreate the mighty Saturn V ! Regards, Bill |
Send message Joined: 19 May 09 Posts: 30 Credit: 1,062,540 RAC: 0 |
BTW : I hereby declare that ‘Jupiter’ is not a planet. My proclamation of course carries about as much weight as these 4 percent idiots from the IAU regarding Pluto. Bill |
Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
Wernher wasn't the only one, Besides It was only a movie(fiction) and besides Human Cloning in the US is illegal to do and besides any clones would be blank templates without the same experiences and so their memories would be different and so they'd be no better than any other child and so therefore cloning somebody who's dead makes no sense at all. |
Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0 |
I've said it before, somewhere else. It's not a planet. Hi Sarge, hope you are well! Look, generation after generation have grown up being taught that Pluto is a planet, and hundreds of thousands of text books are in print saying just that. OK, so officially by the rules, some jobs worth has declared that ooops, sorry chaps, it actually isn't quite a planet after all. So what? Who gives a damn? It is the will of the worlds people that it remains classified as a planet. If within the rarified atmosphere of the scientific community they wish to refer to it as something else for their day to day business that is their prerogative. I am not decrying scientific advances for one moment, but there comes a time when it is sensible to be pragmatic about things. |
Send message Joined: 6 Apr 08 Posts: 2018 Credit: 100,142,856 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
Yeah the snowmen live out there I hear. ;) |
Send message Joined: 15 Feb 09 Posts: 350 Credit: 505,956 RAC: 0 |
It's a planet...or it's round sphere in space far too large to fit in your garage. |
Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
It's a planet...or it's round sphere in space far too large to fit in your garage. Basically It may be one heck of a dirty(and not so little) snowball. :D |
Send message Joined: 20 Sep 08 Posts: 1391 Credit: 203,563,566 RAC: 0 |
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as a planet, Pluto is now considered the largest member of a distinct population called the Kuiper belt. |
Send message Joined: 29 Jul 08 Posts: 267 Credit: 188,848,188 RAC: 0 |
Motion to {Boo hiss !!} against the (IAU) has been proposed, Any seconds? :D |
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